Nintendo NX very likely will have AMD x86 chip, possible 14/16nm

[JEMC]

Pavolink said:

JEMC said:

Pavolink said:
x86 sounds like standard tech, so ports from 3rd parties could be easy.
BTW, any of the chips in the OP or the ones mentioned by JEMC fits in the "industry-leading-chips" description?

The "industry-leading-chips" description is rather vague. But yes, it could be used with all of them for different reasons.

Zen is supposed to be able to compete with Intel chips and be among the fastest consumer chips available, and Artic Islands will be the their next gen GPUs.

Meanwhile, their Merlin Falcon SoC, while not featuring any new tech, are the best SoC chips you can get from AMD and within the industry.

Maybe to be more clear in my comment, I expect "industry-leading-chips" for the NX, but not because those are powerful, but because those are modern. Are those chips modern enough to make it easy to develop for?

Both Zen and Excavator (the CPU inside the SoC) are x86 (more exactly they are x86-64, as they are 64bit chips like all the chips made in the last +5 years), and both Artic Islands and GCN are also common and as easy to program as you can get.

Another thing that doesn't have to do with the hardware, is if developers will be able to port PS4/X1 games to NX easily, and the answer is that it will be as easy or as hard as the publishers want (they always find new and surprising reasons to not develop for Nintendo consoles).