So Whats The Protocol If Nintendo Goes With The Tegra X1 Chip?

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haxxiy said:

Zero chance it is the Tegra X2 unless Nintendo suddenly is going against their entire history of designing hardware. The Gameboy used a processor from the 70's. Gamecube to Wii U were based off a 1998 IBM PowerPC and GPUs from 2000 and 2008 respectively.

Remember - Nintendo follows very closely "lateral thinking of withered technology" when designing hardware, as Gunpei Yokoi called it. The Tegra X1, a rare case where Nvidia sort of flopped, coupled with a 20nm manufacturing process which is very rarely used (and outright skipped by the majority of the market), fits right into the bill.

They have typically followed that philosophy because of cost reasons but we saw with Wii U that using older tech was actually more costly for them and there is also the rumors that Nvidia is giving them a great deal which makes sense because Nvidia has yet to find a notable market for their Tegra line outside of their extremely niche Shield line of devices.