Plot twist: (Rumor)Nvidia Tegra chip to power Nintendo’s NX handheld

[JRPGfan]

FunFan said:

JRPGfan said:
I hope nintendo asked AMD to make them a 16nm FinFET semi custum arm based chip instead.
I think they could produce a much better result than just slapping a Tegra X1 inside their handheld.

Parker, the upcomming Tegra SoC, is fabricated on TSMC’s 16nm FinFET and, like all other Tegra chips, is ARM based.

Parker has a weird CPU setup.

It has 2 big ARM cores only (instead of the usual 4), and then 4 weaker ones (they run low power stuff, in the background).

It would mean games would have to run with only 2 arm cpu cores.

When all the multiplat games out there are learning to multi thread on 6-7 threads (8 core amd x86 from the xb1 & ps4).

It would make the handheld pretty weak in cpu terms.