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Forums - Nintendo - SMD64: AMD confirms 1 unannounced gaming semi-custom design win. Surely it must be NX

 

What is NX?

Nvidia handheld only 39 17.41%
 
AMD handheld only 10 4.46%
 
AMD console only 41 18.30%
 
Nvidia handheld + AMD console 71 31.70%
 
Other 37 16.52%
 
NA/Undecided 26 11.61%
 
Total:224
se7en7thre3 on 14 September 2016
MohammadBadir said:
Is it possibly the PS4Slim?

he said of the 3 wins, 2 have been just announced recently, the scorpio and pro. that auto-eliminates the already announced slims from MSony.



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melbye on 14 September 2016

Probably NX, but i wouldn't be surprised if Playstation 5 is closer than we think



AsGryffynn on 14 September 2016

Sony's thinking on another handheld?



Alby_da_Wolf on 15 September 2016

NX will use a Power8 + RX4x5 low power APU jointly developed by IBM and AMD and customised for Ninty. At least this is what a cousin of a friend of my third cousin once removed says.



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JRPGfan on 15 September 2016
MohammadBadir said:
Is it possibly the PS4Slim?

They talked about the slim/pro & scorpio.

This is something else... that is also a games console :p

Its not that far fetched to think "yep this is nintendo".



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derpysquirtle64 on 15 September 2016
AsGryffynn said:
Sony's thinking on another handheld?

I don't think so. Especially after they said they will develop some mobile games after Pokemon Go's success. I think they will take this route instead of handheld



 

Azzanation on 15 September 2016

Plot twist! AMD supplying the next wave of Nvidea Shields...



globalisateur on 15 September 2016

Hopefully it's not. AMD products are terrible at power efficiency. And you badly need power efficiency hardware in a tablet.



JRPGfan on 15 September 2016
globalisateur said:
Hopefully it's not. AMD products are terrible at power efficiency. And you badly need power efficiency hardware in a tablet.

Not if you use their technology right.

The ARM cpu's amd can make, are equal to whatever arm cpu nvidia would put in their tegra line.

GPU wise.... amd does have HSA.

Which was developed for apu & mobile chips, if nintendo code to make use of that, AMD could make a mobile chip with better power efficiency than anything nvidia has for mobile.



Soundwave on 15 September 2016

Do we even know if all three "semi-custom design" wins are for a game console?

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/69927/20150718/is-amd-making-the-chip-for-nintendo-nx.htm

AMD initially announced two semi-custom design wins last year (one X86 and one with ARM) but one was for *BEYOND* gaming, so that could be anything.

Then later they added another semi-custom design win, so that would be three, but one of them is not a gaming device.

To me that sounds like Scorpio, PS4 Pro, and one contract that isn't a game console.

Personally I think MS started Scorpio first, then Sony caught wind of that and made a quick move to have a PS4 Pro a year in advance. Those are the two semi-custom wins, the third one is not a game console.

Also if it was Nintendo it should be four semi-custom design wins because of the shared console-handheld setup. 

Although is you are going by this on gospel, then it also means this hypothetical AMD-NX has to be using an ARM CPU, because AMD has said at least one of the design wins is using ARM, and we already know the other two (Scorpio and PS4 Pro) are X86.