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

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JEMC said:

Late last year, if I remember correctly, AMD talked about two design wins, one for an x86 part and another for an ARM one, stating something along the lines of "with one of them going beyond gaming". Yet half a year later we still don't know what they were talking about.

Then, around April or so, they talked about three more wins of which they didn't say anything. It wasn't until after E3, where the XboxOne S and Scorpio were revealed, that people assumed that those 3 wins were for the teo MSoft machines and PS4 Neo... but for all we know one of those consoles could be powered by the x86 chip they talked last year.

We're all making assumptions, and you are like the rest of us.

For example, you are talking about Nintendo as if they were like the CIA or something like that, not allowing AMD or Nvidia talk about their machines, when that's not how it works. The reason Nvidia hasn't said anything about their Tegra X2 chip powering a new console is actually rather simple: they won't talk about design wins for a product that they still haven't officially unveiled.

It's you that said that Nvidia won't unveil the chip until the Hot Chips conference, so don't expect anything from them or Nintendo (who in turn won't talk about a console powered by a processor from another company that still hasn't revealed it either).

 

Lastly, and just to add more speculation, the Eurogamer article talked about the Tegra X1 chip, with only one (and they made sure to underline that), one source talking about a fan powered unit which could be there to cool a more powerful chip that everyone assumed would be the Tegra X2. But given that we're talking about dev kits, without knowing if those are early dev kits or not. And that's important because early dev kits are there only to give devs an idea of the power ballpark of the upcoming device so they can scale their projects to run on it.

There's still no reason why the final NX dev kits/console couldn't be powered by an AMD chip.

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