Nintendo Chooses nVidia For Next-Gen Handheld
Tegra System-on-Chip processors to be used in future portable.
Posted 14 Oct 2009
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In news that makes it feel like 'chip manufacturer day', nVidia has announced that it has won a contract to produce chips for the successor to the Nintendo DS and DSi.
According to Bright Side Of News, Nintendo have been busy working on the follow-up to the DS family of handhelds for a while, preparing for a launch of late 2010. The company is said to use the Tegra System-on-Chip processor for its next wave of portable consoles.
Writer Theo Valich muses that as Nintendo' DS hardware is based on 16-bit and 32-bit ARM cores, backwards compatibility would be a certainty in the next system. "According to our sources, all of the apps that came for old DS could run on a single ARM11 core, yet alone the next-gen CorTex-A9-based Tegra, leaving graphics subsystem to do "something smarter"."
Snazzy. This news follows rumours that Microsoft has secured a deal with AMD for its next generation Xbox console.
According to Bright Side Of News, Nintendo have been busy working on the follow-up to the DS family of handhelds for a while, preparing for a launch of late 2010. The company is said to use the Tegra System-on-Chip processor for its next wave of portable consoles.
Writer Theo Valich muses that as Nintendo' DS hardware is based on 16-bit and 32-bit ARM cores, backwards compatibility would be a certainty in the next system. "According to our sources, all of the apps that came for old DS could run on a single ARM11 core, yet alone the next-gen CorTex-A9-based Tegra, leaving graphics subsystem to do "something smarter"."
Snazzy. This news follows rumours that Microsoft has secured a deal with AMD for its next generation Xbox console.
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Poor ATI
2/4
Its got to be better than the deal they did with Sinclair Research for the graphics chip in the Wii.
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Wow, its about time a new handheld was going to hit the market. I wonder what this one is going to be called.
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Kiro wrote:
Wow, its about time a new handheld was going to hit the market. I wonder what this one is going to be called.
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