AMD designs suggest the development of three new consoles. – Eurogamer.pt

AMD revealed the existence of new design wins for your business semi-custom processors, suggesting that three new designs of consoles will hit the market this year and next. The Gamesindustry.biz reports that the company expects to generate $ 1.5 billion in revenue over the next three to four years, but the question is, so these designs processors will be translated to consoles?

Lisa Su CEO of AMD, was reserved in detail at a meeting with investors, but revealed that “not all” these products will be shipped to stores this year, and did not disclose the details of these new designs: “I do not believe that reveal any detail about which are these victories, so rather wait until our customers are ready for launch “

at least one of these designs has been exposed. – is the new SoC processor (system on chip) in the heart of the new PlayStation under the name Neo code. It is an evolution of the existing processor PS4 with an overclocking version of the x86 CPU based on the Jaguar architecture, and a graphical 2.3 component times more capable.

As for the other two designs – we can try to guess what’s for Nintendo NX and might for the Microsoft Xbox renewal through the generation. Alternatively, it may be that the home and portable version of NX concept count as two semi-custom designs, AMD. Possibly the home version of the Nintendo console will be released this year, and the portable device would arrive later in 2017.

Rich out everything we know about the Neo specifications for the PlayStation hardware revision.

from a financial perspective, it is good news for AMD, which can add these successes to the list of revenue generated by its current contracts with Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo, which should improve later in the year, assuming that there will be healthy sales in the holiday season

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“In addition to these design wins, we have our current business of the consoles,” said Lisa Su, CEO of AMD. “So when you look at the aggregate, we expect to start accelerating new business in the second half of the year. We also expect a seasonal increase in our business of traditional consoles. So we expect a year is generally in semi-custom processors.”

from our perspective, we have some concerns about the convergence of the console hardware, all of it produced by the same supplier. Evidence suggests that three major companies consoles are now using variations of the same technology, and this inevitably leads to similar products. And based on the specifications of the PlayStation Neo, it is a situation that may well be exacerbated by the transition to renewals of existing hardware designs. Of course, Nintendo is proud of its innovative thinking, so assuming that NX is based on AMD technology, we wait to see how the firm intends to differentiate itself from the competition.