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https://mynintendonews.com/2016/08/17/rumour-nintendo-nx-to-use-tegra-x2-chip/
waaaat
I'm surprised nobody in here is talking about this news, especially when so many were expecting AMD to pick up business from Nintendo thanks to the NX. A few shockers here (well maybe not entirely shocking on all of them but still):
1). Nintendo shifting away from standard consoles to a tablet-like device that can maybe kinda sorta be used as a console if you link controllers to it? I guess? View this in light of Nvidia cancelling the next generation of Shield products.
2). Nintendo going anywhere near Tegra for anything, which seems criminally insane. Even a gimped Carrizo TDP limited to 15W would be preferable to an X1. Unless Nvidia is just giving the things away, what's the incentive to go Nvidia here? Is this a foundry preference thing or what? Surely AMD could fab some chips at TSMC if it was that big of a deal. They have before.
As for the X2 . . . it isn't a known quantity yet, but with Zen/Raven Ridge coming up, going with the X2 just seems goofy as hell.
3). WTF would Nintendo want to go big.LITTLE for a gaming platform?
waaaat
I'm surprised nobody in here is talking about this news, especially when so many were expecting AMD to pick up business from Nintendo thanks to the NX. A few shockers here (well maybe not entirely shocking on all of them but still):
1). Nintendo shifting away from standard consoles to a tablet-like device that can maybe kinda sorta be used as a console if you link controllers to it? I guess? View this in light of Nvidia cancelling the next generation of Shield products.
2). Nintendo going anywhere near Tegra for anything, which seems criminally insane. Even a gimped Carrizo TDP limited to 15W would be preferable to an X1. Unless Nvidia is just giving the things away, what's the incentive to go Nvidia here? Is this a foundry preference thing or what? Surely AMD could fab some chips at TSMC if it was that big of a deal. They have before.
As for the X2 . . . it isn't a known quantity yet, but with Zen/Raven Ridge coming up, going with the X2 just seems goofy as hell.
3). WTF would Nintendo want to go big.LITTLE for a gaming platform?