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Soundwave on 26 January 2016
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Stefan51278 said:
Soundwave said:

This A9X chip isn't even that expensive, it's pegged to cost about $38 to mass produce

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/12/02/how-much-does-the-apple-a9x-cost-to-make.asp

 

Yeah, that chip does cost 38$ to mass produce. No, it doesn't just cost 38$. Apple iterated this chip for years, invested millions after millions and sold a alot of predecessor-chips to customers to get where they are at the moment. No way Nintendo could buy this chip with that high perfomance/low-power for 38$ per chip ;)

 

PowerVR is looking to put an even more powerful 16-core version of this chip (7900) which is getting into XBox One territory full stop (800 GFLOPS) into cheap Android set-top boxes. 

I don't think these chips cost that much money and Apple is not the only vendor for them. Nvidia has a comparable chip too (the Tegra X1) which has been sold in a micro-console for a year already and that costs $199.99 with 3GB RAM and a fat profit margin. 

These chips are cheap. I think AMD could give Nintendo something similar if they wanted and AMD has very low margins (that's why they get all the console contracts).