Exion8 said: Maybe I'm wrong, but every Nintendo home console from the NES up to the NX (possibly) has featured a market chip with customizations. I wonder how much it costs them to work with the semiconductor companies. In the end, the total price of the chip would most likely be the regular price plus the custom work done; it could possibly be cheaper for them to fabricate their own chips. |
While Nintendo does invest several million dollars when they approach AMD to customise one of their chips for their own needs, AMD and Intel invest hundreds of millions (if not billions) designing those chips in the first place.
Besides, Nintendo doesn't customize the chips either, they tell AMD what they want from a chip and it's AMD who designs and changes the chip to suit Nintendo's needs.
And on top of that, there is the fact that to design an x86 chip you must have a license from Intel because they were the ones who made it. Do you know how many companies make x86 processors? Only 3: Intel, AMD and VIA. Not even the mighty Nvidia could purchase a license to develop x86 processors, that's why they went with ARM.
Long story short: No, buying chips from AMD (or Intel), is far, far cheaper than making their own chips.
Please excuse my bad English.
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