lightbleeder on 16 May 2008
| HappySqurriel said: I (personally) expect Nintendo to move towards the 45nm process in order to integrate the Hollywood and Broadway processors (and potentially the 1 transistor memory) onto one chip; the benefit of this for the Wii would be a slightly lower manufacturing cost and energy consumption, but the long term benefit for Nintendo would be that they would have the "heart" of their next handheld system, it would have all of its R&D paid off, developers would be very familiar with it, and it would (already) be in mass production. |
That's a very interesting theory, although I don't think Nintendo will replace the DS for the next 5 years at least.
