Rumor: Nintendo's Upcoming 3DS To Be Powered By A Marvell CPU?

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masschamber said:

I doubt it, I see no reason nintendo would drop arm architecture considering the 3ds is supposed to have ds back compatibility and it would be strange to have the ds complete hardware on board

I'm certain the 3ds is going to use newer ARM processors in a similar configuration to the DS

Marvell is an ARM licensee so their CPUs are of ARM design and fully compatible. ARM doesn't actually make CPUs they just design the architecture, CPUs based on ARM designs are in like 90% of hand-held devices and are manufactured by numerous companies.

So yea a Marvell CPU would be a newer ARM processor and would be fully backwards compatible.