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

[FunFan]

JRPGfan said:

FunFan said:

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.

Sounds a lot like the WiiU. You know, having a triple core with 1 more powereful core and two lesser ones. What did Iwata said again? Oh yes, "we are going to create a system that can absorb the Wii U architecture adequately." Also, theres nothing stopping Nvidia makin a custom design and this is Nintendo, history shows they only do custom (and weird).