AMD representatives keep repeating at industry events and quarterly competitions that the company will begin to receive revenue from the supply of new custom solutions in 2016. The names of two new customers in this direction AMD are not disclosed, but it is assumed that one of them will be Nintendo with its new generation gaming device, and the second product will be treated to a segment of telecommunication circuits or cloud computing.
Associate report that AMD company will begin to supply manufacturers of game consoles, new hybrid processor in 2018.
We recently found out that the PlayStation 4 in its basic version for use with virtual reality headset PlayStation VR need some additional computer unit. According to colleagues from the site WCCFTech, AMD solutions for the new generation of game consoles will have a significant bias towards virtual reality. If this prediction came true, the new generation PlayStation will be able to work with the PlayStation VR blocks without additional overclock.
The ratio of performance and power of the new AMD solutions for gaming consoles will be improved by five times. Roughly speaking, energy consumption for the same next-generation console will be able to demonstrate the performance gains up to five times.