No-longer-bold prediction: Sony will release PS5 Portable in late 2023/2024

[Pemalite]

TomaTito said:

Pemalite said:

Downgrading silicon to hit various formfactors, TDP and power consumption targets has been a thing for decades.

So I wasn't really surprised.
In-fact I argued Nintendo could have gone down the same path by opting for AMD mobile hardware before Tegra got confirmed by Nintendo themselves.

Was the Switch form factor plausible at that time with x86?

I would have done the same thing Nintendo did, and that is to continue evolving their portable hardware with ARM.
"ARM chips are designed for low power draw, flexibility, low cost and low heat with good performance"

And adding this link, if this goes down to a x86 vs ARM, or CISC vs RISC:
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/323245-risc-vs-cisc-why-its-the-wrong-lens-to-compare-modern-x86-arm-cpus

With Apple betting on ARM, and the SteamDeck with AMD, it's going to make the portable space exciting:
https://debugger.medium.com/why-is-apples-m1-chip-so-fast-3262b158cba2

Absolutely. 4 Jaguar cores at 1Ghz paired up with a low clocked VLIW4 integrated GPU with LPDDR3 ram would have been more than feasible.

TomaTito said:

And adding this link, if this goes down to a x86 vs ARM, or CISC vs RISC:
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/323245-risc-vs-cisc-why-its-the-wrong-lens-to-compare-modern-x86-arm-cpus

With Apple betting on ARM, and the SteamDeck with AMD, it's going to make the portable space exciting:
https://debugger.medium.com/why-is-apples-m1-chip-so-fast-3262b158cba2

Anyone who tries to argue CISC vs RISC in trying to compare x86 vs ARM really doesn't understand CPU design at all.
Decades ago that comparison would have been valid... But things are far more complicated today.

Atom was faster than ARM for ages until Intel stagnated.