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Nobody wants the console market in the first place, it's low-margin high-touch garbage. It's a good base-load, but if you could, you would rather sell that wafe
by stefan_ 7y ago
Nobody wants the console market in the first place, it's low-margin high-touch garbage. It's a good base-load, but if you could, you would rather sell that wafer worth of chips to datacenter applications or in a glossy box to gamers.
- hakfoo 7y agoI wonder if the wafer angle is less the case because AMD is fabless. Intel, indeed, would lose the capacity, but AMD can farm out the Xbox One to a second-tier manufacturer or process while still cashing the cheque. I also suspect there's a market positioning long game in controlling console chips. Every AAA title and major engine for the next 5-10 years is going to target 8-thread AMD CPUs, so you'd expect lazy ports to perform well on Ryzen for free.
- daemin 7y agoIt's not so much targeting 8-thread AMD CPUs but targeting multicore x64 CPUs in general. The differences between operating systems account for way more than the differences between Intel and AMD CPUs.