Alistair on 08 January 2020
Another quick note is most people have no idea how far AMD has come. The OG Switch's APU consumed 15 watts. AMD just announced an 8 core 16 thread Ryzen 3000 APU for laptops that is also only 15 watts. It runs at 1.8 Ghz all cores (4.2 Ghz boost) and only 15 watts. Intel just launched their 10th gen 6 core 15 watts chip, 1.1 Ghz.
AMD has 2 more cores, and 64 percent higher clock speed and performance than Intel right now in the same power consumption... It's pretty astonishing. Not that they will (because the CPU will cost more than the Switch) but thermally they could actually stick the 8 core CPU in the PS5 in a Switch. GPU would be massively reduced of course.
