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Ck1x on 06 January 2020
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So when these guys were first talking about the Switch revision systems last year I though maybe they were crazy, because it seemed a little to soon... But then the Switch Lite came out and I'm like well where there's smoke there's fire! So even though we never heard anything about the Pro version I kept wondering what might of happened and I think that Nvidia just wasn't ready with the chip they had planned for the system in 2019. When articles kept popping up about Nvidia aggressively securing 7nm manufacturing production with both Samsung and TSMC, I thought man that seems like overkill.

Knowing that all of this is speculation of course, the I came across this article which was published in November 2019
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/301531-nvidias-new-jetson-xavier-nx-adds-horsepower-to-ai-at-the-edge

The Tegra X1 in the Switch was once apart of Nvidia's Jetson car Ai initiative as well, but it was repurposed as the heart and soul of Nintendo's current gaming device. Of course Nintendo wouldn't need all of the functions and features for a gaming device, but the core of this SoC would be absolutely perfect for a Switch revision. The fact they are calling it the Xavier NX is even more ironic

Xavier NX specs:
6-core Carmel Arm 64-bit CPU (6MB L2 and 4MB L3 cache)
8GB of 128-bit LPDDR4x RAM (51.2GB/second memory bandwidth)
384 Nvidia Volta gpu cores w/48 tensor cores
3Tflops-(FP32)/6Tflops-(FP16) at 15 watts of power (Of course they said 15 watts was Ai performance so Im betting normal TDP is a little higher) I could see Nintendo and Nvidia possibly using something like this but under clocked just like with the Tegra X1.

So of course this is just speculation, but Nvidia even states that they expect this new Xavier NX to ship in march while the new DigiTimes article says that Nintendo plans on ramping up production 1Q 2020.
Also the talk of them possibly using a Magnesium alloy frame would rule out a budget device or TV only unit. They would only do something like this to make the system premium, lightweight, durable, and for heat dissipation(a high spec device for its form factor)  

Last edited by Ck1x - on 06 January 2020