Who wants to guess this monster hybrid will only be available in Hades Canyon and some Apple machine and nowhere else?
Maybe in the Navi generation? It would make for a very pretty lineup to have, say, Navi 10 / 14 / 24 be APUs, Navi 36 / 44 be a budget discrete GPU pair, have Navi 56 / 64 be shrunk Vega cards, and then some high end 2080 Ti competitor series of new cards called Navi 80 / 88[1]. If they can get power under control and have the TDPs like up like 45 / 65 / 95 / 120 / 150 / 170 / 200 / 210 / 250 watts they could have a really viable lineup no matter what Nvidia pulls...
[1] Having a GPU called the 88 would just be marketing bliss. "When we get this thing up to 88 compute units you are going to see some serious shit".
For home HTPC even an old BayTrail-based NUC is sufficient (Kodi/Plex) at 1080p though. I run one for ~3 years and haven't had any need to upgrade so far.
For gaming get one of those ZOTAC Magnus machines with 1070, as large as Mac Mini, quiet and powerful. I use one as a SteamBox and couldn't be happier.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12319/zotac-displays-zbox-ma5...
Besides the consumer Raven Ridge CPUs there are also 2 OEM 35w versions that are downclocked slightly while shaving off a huge chunk of TDP. They are named like 2400G but with an E on the end, ie 2400GE. I imagine if AMD really wanted to put the effort into a 15W chip they could manage a ~2.5ghz quad core with Ryzen modules.
Neo-Nazi's don't get to claim integers.
I have no idea why 4 would be special and 13 avoidance is for superstitious people which I'm not one of.
So forgive me if I don't see the problem with the 'Navi 88', in spite of being pretty sensitive to such issues because of what my grandparents went through.
When some kids wanted to do a dance festival under the label 'Tanzen macht frei' I thought it was in pretty bad taste because it clearly intended to be a reference. But just a number is not enough to trigger my sense of indignation.
And if he was, would you propose Nike stop marketing their shoes? It's probably another US-centric thing I will never understand, like skipping 13th floor or plane seat number.
P.S. we have already derailed this discussion deep off-topic, so I will not continue any longer.
Nokia 8800
Ericsson GS88
Motorola Focus 88
Seems like marketing people care less about fringe far-right numerology than you buddy.
Seems like their marketing team cared enough about a number.
IIRC 8 is a lucky number in chinese and asian cultures. Between catering to the billion-strong asia market and hurting the feelings of a hand-full of conspiracy nuts, I would prefer to go where the money goes.
People need to grow up.
Would that be anti-competitive behavior or just part of business?
I was hoping for a Ryzen NUC that would be powerful enough to use as an HTPC and ultra-portable gaming machine, but it appears that won't be happening.