Worth noting, I notice poorer performance when I lay my router on its side.
LockerK
1608
Reminds me of a sandwich moments before disaster.
Well, of course, if the electrons don’t get to run downhill they go slower.
lordkosc
1610
So wait, the PS5 needs a special mount/stand now to have it be horizontal, but can stand by itself vertically?
geewhiz
1611
Looks like a rectangle reverse Oreo!
If it comes in the box can it be called “special”?
ioticus
1614
lordkosc
1615
Well that doesn’t sound like good news.
To be fair, their original target was extremely high, and after this reduction they are on track to still ship and produce more PS5s than they did PS4s in the same launch period. And the PS4 launch numbers were considered huge.
Aren’t the chips in the new Xbox similar enough (same architectures, same fab, etc…) that Microsoft should be having the same yield issues?
Do we know who is fabbing the PS5 die? I’ve been trying to find the info myself.
I thought it was Samsung since I thought AMD was heavily using samsung this generation (or so I heard).
stusser
1620
No pretty sure it’s tsmc.
Oh right I"m wrong, Nvidia is using samsung because they played hardball wrong and AMD got the bulk of their capacity.
Timex
1622
Isn’t sony’s chip some kind of custom job? Doesn’t that mean it’s possible that the yield issues could be due to some aspect of the chip design itself?
Both chips are customised for the console. Neither is off the shelf. Maybe Sony’s customisations are more problematic on the assembly line. But that’s not really known.
Timex
1624
Yeah, I’m curious if that’s the case, because they were specifically citing low yields of less than 50%, which as far as I know, they’re not having with other chips they’re fabricating.
Also, wouldn’t this have a dual impact on Sony as well, in that it’ll reduce their production capability, while also increasing the cost?
jsnell
1625
The issues might not be the same. Sony is clocking their chips significantly higher than Microsoft is doing with XSX.
