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

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Soundwave said:

JEMC said:

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.

Soundwave, it's April. There's plenty of time to make enough chips/consoles to guarantee availability in one or two regions.

And then there's this:

GlobalFoundries: We started to tape-out chips using second-gen 14nm process technology

http://www.kitguru.net/components/anton-shilov/globalfoundries-we-started-to-tape-out-products-using-second-gen-14nm-process-technology/

GlobalFoundries on Friday confirmed that the first products to be made using the company’s advanced 14nm LPP [low-power plus] manufacturing technology had been taped out. The contract maker of chips did not reveal any details, but indicated that prototype chips had demonstrated “excellent” performance and yields. One of the customers, who will use the 14LPP is Advanced Micro Devices.

And that article is from September of last year!