The real reasons Microsoft and Sony chose AMD for consoles [F]

[ShintaiDK]

If consoles are to ship before xmas. Then the chips have to be in production already.

 

[sontin]

They are in production. AMD said they built inventory for the new consoles. So they have them already back from the fab.

 

[SiliconWars]

Judging by the expected 20-25% increase in revenue for Q3 they must be in decent volume already. All the talk is about shortages though, for both consoles, and with China opening up it's going to get worse before it gets better.

 

[Exophase]

Well Bobcat eventually hit 1.75GHz with the E2-2000 (with a modest graphics increase included, but much higher graphics turbo) that's up almost 10% on release clocks of 1.6GHz. I don't think it's a huge stretch to get Jaguar to 2.15-2.2GHz, granted it would be in a much shorter time-frame assuming these higher parts release soonish.

I wouldn't say 2.15-2.2GHz is a huge stretch either, maybe it'll be on the lower end of binning or maybe they'll get there with some tweaks to the design. I just don't think that these parts have been clocked very conservatively to save power, I definitely think they're pushing on the upper ends of what the design can handle. If you think about it, leaving a bunch of frequency headroom on the table means you could have probably tightened the design in some way. Enthusiasts may love it when a CPU has a ton of overclocking potential but if overclockibility isn't even a feature it's just an inefficiency in the design. Hence why Intel appears to have deliberately brought down the clock headroom on Haswell.