AMD looking more & more to be providing silicon for the NX

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Darc Requiem said:

sethnintendo said:

Yea, I thought it was a given that AMD was doing the next chips considering they've been working with Nintendo since at least the Gamecube (when it was ATI before being bought).  I would be surprised if they went with Nvidia.  The latest rumors just didn't make sense to me.

The relationship actually predates that. ArtX formed from the team that helped develop the N64. They were bought by ATI which was in turn acquired by AMD. I'm having a hard time buying this Nvidia talk when all their financials in regards SoCs don't show any hints of a deal with anyone in the gaming sector. They cancelled the Shield 2. Their CEO was asked point blank about Tegra and he said nothing about any thing in the gaming space. He talked about Self driving cars, Drones, Embedded applications for buildings and cities. 

Pascal/Tegra X2 is happening. It's being unveiled at the Hot Chips conference later this month. 

A lot of people at Nvidia are AMD employees who have worked with Nintendo before too. 

Nintendo has been incredibly secretive about the NX, moreso than even their other systems -- we are now like 7 months away from launch and still don't even have a "first wave" unveil of the system hardware at least. 

To me AMD boasting about chip wins is unprofessional too if those vendors are asking for details to be kept private. I don't think Nintendo would be happy with that at all. 

Nvidia is keeping hush because Nintendo has told them to, I think that's all there is to it.