NVIDIA launches Jetson TX2 devkit with twice performance

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SpokenTruth said:

Soundwave said:

That's just the standard price I think, the Jetson X1 (Tegra X1) was $500 or something too (which is actually cheap for a development kit) obviously we know the Switch isn't $600. Nvidia doesn't sell many of these and they're for developers so the mark up is high. 

EDIT: Jetson X1 was $599.99 as well. It's just the standard price. For students, Nvidia drops the price to $299.99 for the kit. So obviously there is a fat mark up. 

That $299.99 academic price is in limited quantities and only to the US and Canada where they get tax breaks for education programs like this.  This is not a price they can apply to mass distribution.

It's a dev kit, it's not a consumer product to begin with period, so it's limited quanitities either way. Trying to figure out the cost of a chip from a dev kit is quite simply a fool's errand. 

A 3DS dev kit costs several thousand dollars, obviously the consumer 3DS does not cost several thousand dollars. A Vita dev kit was over $2000, and Sony was hailing that as very cheap for developers. Wii U dev kit is $5000. 

The Jetson X1, which has the Tegra X1 for example is still available too (this is the chip that's supposedly in the current Switch) .... for $499.99 (they dropped the price by $100). By that logic, a Switch should cost like $650-$700 ... $500 for the Tegra + $99 for the Joycons + $50+ for the LCD and battery. 

A Tegra X1 successor was inevitable, the the Tegra X1 (20nm) is a two year old chip, that's fairly dated in mobile chip terms.