More hints of AMD's Potential Partnership with Nintendo on the NX

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Alby_da_Wolf said:

JEMC said:

numberwang said:
AMD uses Globalfoundries to manufacture their chips if I am no mistaken. So are we going with 32/28nm for the CPU/GPU in 2016. What are the implications?

AMD works with GloFo and TSMC, and while TSMC will have 16nm late this year or early 2016, GloFo will have its 14nm process ready around the same time.

But with that said, if Nintendo launches its product (handheld, home console, hybrid or whatever it is) in 2016, it will be based on a 28nm chip.

So NX could launch no sooner than 2017, after all.
BTW, I don't know why someone said a partnership with AMD would exclude an Android-based system, NX CPU or APU could be one of the first AMD K12 ARM chips, but even if it weren't, Android already runs on x86, although its main HW platform is ARM.

To be fair, how long it will take to jump to the next node has little to do with Nintendo and its next console.

Nintendo usually goes with tried and tested hardware, not the newest and most cutting edge, so whatever hardware they have planned to use, it's most likely already on use and produced at 28nm.