Xbox One S gets 16nm FinFET SoC (TSMC)

[hojnikb]

Is PS4 going to get the same slimline and die shrink treatment ?

 

[Phynaz]

Why? TSMC has a bunch of 16nm capacity online.

Yup, their ramp has been very impressive.

 

[StinkyPinky]

I'm confused, is this Neo and Scorpio next gen consoles? Seems a quick release window, I would have thought they would milk the PS4/XB1 some more.

 

[jpiniero]

Well, you would think that Apple would be monopolizing the wafers given the release of the iPhone 7 in a month and a half. Between all of nVidia's new GPUs and this new XBone you'd think there wouldn't be enough to go around.

I'm confused, is this Neo and Scorpio next gen consoles? Seems a quick release window, I would have thought they would milk the PS4/XB1 some more.

The Neo is really just a GPU upgrade for higher resolutions and to help out PSVR. The CPU does get improved but not much. Scorpio is more next-gen but you have to wonder if it's going to be simply a regular PC. Going to be super expensive I bet.

 

[Mercennarius]

The Neo is really just a GPU upgrade for higher resolutions and to help out PSVR. The CPU does get improved but not much. Scorpio is more next-gen but you have to wonder if it's going to be simply a regular PC. Going to be super expensive I bet.

Scorpio will likely come in at a $400-$500 MSRP.

 

[jpiniero]

Scorpio will likely come in at a $400-$500 MSRP.

With Vega and (presumably) some sort of Zen? MS would be getting a sweet deal if they could release it at even $500.

 

[NTMBK]

Scorpio is more next-gen but you have to wonder if it's going to be simply a regular PC.

A "regular PC" would totally break backwards compatibility with XBox One games. They are written expecting a unified memory pool, paired with a fast ESRAM buffer accessible from both CPU and GPU. I would be very surprised if they didn't get another semicustom APU.

 

[Arachnotronic]

Yup, their ramp has been very impressive.

Yep, they put in a lot of capacity in terms of wafer starts per month and yields are generally excellent so effective capacity is quite high.