Nintendo using a 4 year old TSMC process for their next console would be about as surprising as Leonardo DiCaprio's next girlfriend being in her 20s.
Kopite even admits a few months ago he got the node process for Tegra 50 series wrong, he said 3nm wasn't happening when other sources were saying 3nm, and then posted weeks later "I was wrong". He has some sources at Nvidia, but it's clear he doesn't have a full picture and gets a lot of things wrong as a result. He made 5 or 6 statements on the Switch 2 and 5/6 were shown to wrong over time, he got the name T239 correct and everything else wrong.
If it was 8nm it would be a 6SM chip, paying for double the CUDA cores just to get almost no performance uplift and have worse yields (more manufacturing expense) makes zero sense.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 22 September 2023
