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RolStoppable said:
The most credible rumor talked about two upcoming Switch revisions. |
I am curious why you seem to be ignoring a major element of the thread's cited article, namely the evidence suggesting two distinct APU ID's were merged into one. Perhaps once representing slightly different production cost / performance spec products, but ultimately merged into one developer target. Without the information linking them and their merging, it's reasonable that other bits of info were once interpreted as two distinct SKUs, but I don't understand why taking into account the evidence mentioned, one would still assume 2 SKUs. If you have a special angle on this that I'm missing, it seems like you would want to elaborate on that, to explain why the article is mistaken or likely mistaken etc?
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Bofferbrauer2 said:
I expect it to be a shrink to 14/12/10nm (7nm is too expensive and too much in demand right now to produce large quantities). Probably the 12nm process NVidia is already using. However, no actual changes or redesigns in the hardware, so everything new comes with that shrink. (...) Which means either more power (about 30% max), more battery life (about 50% max), or a mix of both. |
Curious why you would expect that ...from Nintendo? And as the thread's article citation notes, the ~30% figure is in line with what 16nm process would offer, so what evidence suggests a better process to you?
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curl-6 said:
I can't help but feel like it'll be 16nm simply cos Nintendo always seems to play it conservative when it comes to tech stuff. |
Certainly, I mean Sony with PS4 Pro / Slim as well as most smartphone makers were using equivalent 16nm process at/before Switch launch: 16nm was mature process then with price/performance benefits, there was no real reason Nintendo couldn't have launched with it... Except they know they can get away with less performance and worse battery life because they aren't competing directly with anybody (similar controls available for smartphones not withstanding, it isn't same market). Now with Sony on verge of launching PS5 at 7nm, Nintendo is just moving to launch 16nm product.
Last edited by mutantsushi - on 29 June 2019
