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Softbank/ARM/NVIDIA (Saudi Vision fund has $4 billion worth of NVIDIA.) Masayoshi Son CEO of Softbank-ARM and Saudi Crown Prince in New York today looking for investments. ARM/NVIDIA announce AI partnership today. Maybe not directly console business relevant but higher level technology...

Well, in the video Keller mentioned 'inherent architectural efficiencies' of the ARM ISA that he thought were 'pretty cool', mentioned how that expanded performance, and that they took lessons from ARM ISA and applied them to Zen. So, in a sense, ARM is in Zen! Don't disagree with your...

The last official word about K12 from Lisa Su is that they were 'always looking at ARM', but there was no current ARM R&D, and that K12 would be available to semi-custom customers if they wanted it. Sorry, I can't find a link for the quote to the last part. Since K12 development was 'highly...

Here you are--https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/david-kanter-amds-arm-core-will-be-10-faster-than-their-x86-one-ditch-bulldozer.2395754/

Which is why you can see why you would partner multithreading cores with 'big' dedicated single-threaded cores in a theoretical high performance/high efficiency ARM console CPU. And it would be superior to 8 Zen on all metrics, i.e., tdp, die area, ST/MT performance.

Because.. NVIDIA of 2018 is not NVIDIA of 2004. If it wants PS5 for the PR win it can have it. Masayoshi Son, the 'Warren Buffet' of Japan, 4th largest shareholder of NVIDIA, and CEO of Softbank (owner of ARM), if he wants to partner with Sony and broker a sweetheart deal for PS5, it can happen...

Basically, the era for consolidation of mobile and console gaming is here. This is from the top boss. Mobile has a much larger base than PC. Gaming can be consolidated around the ARM architecture with ARM-based next-gen consoles. Microsoft can then leverage ARM/UWP gaming against Steam/Win32...

AMD/NVIDIA. In the case of AMD, the big core would be specifically K12 and the other cores would e customized, stock ARM optimized for gaming. Describing an ARM-based AMD APU (w/ Navi, or next-gen AMD graphics). NVIDIA would just be a Tegra-based, console-worthy SoC. The foundation for both...

Here, this picture tweeted by CloudFare CEO really drives the point home (watts Intel vs Qualcomm server, same workload/same performance)-- Here is another major ARM server play: ARM-Softbank/Fujitsu (Fujitsu building world's most powerful exascale supercomputer, ARM-based with custom ARM...

NVIDIA *is* in a position of significant financial strength that it could bid for a next-gen console contract as a PR win, and to undermine AMD's semi-custom business. Furthermore, consider the following other larger strategic business factors that would support an NVIDIA+ARM+Sony PS5 console...

ARM Ares next-gen Cortex A75 *successor* will be unveiled in May. Clocked at 3.0 GHz it will be 2-to-3x of Jaguar while offering far superior perf/watt and perf/mm2 metric over Ryzen, amongst a host of other advantages including the ability to produce a *true* 8 core console, thanks to Dynamic...

Comparing the raw compute potential this will easily have more of it than entry level Core U and Ryzen mobile chips. Around 4000+ and 10000+ single and multi scores on Geekbench. (note it's targeting Apple Bionic which scores similarly) by comparison: Ryzen 5 2500 mobile, 3500 single and multi...

Here is a new Samsung ARM big core worthy of a console with single threaded performance on par with Apple's Bionic and better than crappy Ryzen mobile-- https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/262676-samsungs-new-exynos-m3-processor-ultra-wide-mobile-monster Samsung octacore CPU, AMD gpu, plus...

It's very elementary that an ARM console CPU core solution is going to beat a Ryzen one on tdp, size, efficiency, potential core configurations, cost, economies of sale. It's obvious. ARM won't have the penalties Zen will have doing 8 cores (or more) in a mesh, not that it matters in the big...

next-gen console CPU: Ryzen = no ARM = yes There is no Ryzen core that is suitable (tdp/die size/economics) for a console. AMD abandoned the ultra-mobile, low-power market that Jaguar addressed and there is no Ryzen replacement. What makes more economic sense: making a console with 4-8...