Kimishima Nintendo Investor Q&A (New NX Info, More 3DS, Wii U = Dead)

[Soundwave]

JEMC said:

Soundwave said:

There are problems beyond just not having enough systems. When you have bad yields, you have large amounts of unusable chips ... guess who's left on the hook for that ...

So if the 14nm yields are bad, it's possibly Nintendo told them to call off the dogs until the process can be smoothed out rather than continue to eat losses on bad batches of chips.

That depends on the deal. AMD had a deal with Global Foundries with its Bulldozer CPUs where they only payed for the working chips, encouraging GloFo to improve their manufacturing process.

There is nothing that frobids Nintendo to have a similar deal with AMD and GloFo too.

Possible though Nintendo needing millions of chips in a such a short time span could complicate that considerably.