fatslob-:O said:
Secretive in what way specifically ? BTW, Nintendo hardly uses cutting edge lithography technology going by recent history. The 3DS's GPU is manufactured at 65nm despite 40nm being available at the time from TSMC and the WII U's GPU was manufactured at 45nm despite 28nm being available from TSMC/Globalfoundries ... These guys even lag too in terms of CPU and GPU microarchitectures ... |
Yeah though I suspect this has changed for Nintendo, they simply can't use underpowered hardware anymore, not if they don't have a miracle gimmick to sell with it, and I think Nintendo has swallowed their pride on that account as the U tablet and the 3D screen failed to really drive hardware sales.
Perhaps they have a deal with AMD/TSMC to cover against some of the early yield issues in exchange AMD/TSMC get the contract for Nintendo's portable line which needs to be compatible with the home line. I could see it.
