JRPGfan on 31 May 2015
| Soundwave said: I could see Nintendo getting 16nm mobile chips from ARM + AMD too, the next iPhone (6s) coming this fall is supposedly going to use a 16nm chip: http://www.macrumors.com/2014/08/25/tsmc-16nm-a9/ Assuming a late 2016-spring 2017 type launch for a proposed NX "family" of hardware devices, 16nm might very well be in play. |
Would be big and the "ideal" time to pull a quick on over on Playstation and Xbox.
Make a more powerfull consol, thats cheaper than theirs, and uses less power.
FinFETs technology (3D transistors as intel calls them) cut power consumption like 50% alone, so going 16nm with FinFETs is huge.
Going from 45nm wii U chip ---> 16nm FinFETs would be a crazy big jump.
