ARM "leaks" that the Switch is using 4x A57 cores on FB, but removes the post to avoid confusion

[fleischr]

bonzobanana said:

fleischr said:
ARM's president previously went on record that mobile chips as powerful as PS4/X1 would hit the market in 2017. Did we take that seriously?

Meanwhile - this is probably some errant post by a social media manager. The link it doesn't go back to nVidia, Nintendo, IDC, or other professional source which is likely why it is not confirmed accurate and was removed.

If ARM is talking about their CPU's rather than other companies GPU's then that is pretty easy to achieve. Their Mali gpu chips are not competitive in performance and for lower end devices so I'm sure he didn't mean that.  

For GPUs, yeah he really meant that.

http://venturebeat.com/2016/02/16/mobile-devices-will-be-more-powerful-than-playstation-4-xbox-one-in-2017-arm-forecasts/

He mentions nVidia...

Not saying he's right - but all things considered when Tegra X1 launched in 2015 it was significantly better than 360/PS3 in terms of raw GPU performance.