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.

There's lots of reasons for Nintendo to use the Tegra X2/Parker, and it's not just about graphics pissing, the X2/Parker likely offers far better per watt performance and consumes less electricity for the same output that an X1 would. 

Just kinda sorta important for a portable console (unless you like 1 1/2 hour battery life). Tegra X1 runs way too hot to run at max capacity and not burn through even a monster sized battery and is only on the 20nm node right now. A Parker based chip at 16nm would likely run far, far cooler. 

And Nintendo has used fairly cutting edge tech in the N64 and GameCube for their time, not every Nintendo hardware follows Yokoi's design philosophy and it isn't the 80s anymore anyway.