I mean, how rare is it that a more dense node is less ideal than a dense one (20nm comes to mind)? But given what we know about 7nm, it was probably too expensive around the time a contract was written up. It's why Nvidia moved to 8nm in the first place
The Snapdragon 765 seems to perform similarly to the Snapdragon 835. (I know this is off-topic, but I hope Qualcomm's next upper mid-range SoCs perform competitively against the Exynos 1080.)
Yeah, AMD was a bad business partner for Nintendo, from my perspective, Nintendo doesn't build GPUs, AMD does, so when Nintendo went to AMD to buy a GPU for a low powered Wii U, AMD gave them a 2008 architecture, and a year later gave Sony a 2012 architecture for less simply because Sony asked for the best GPU available at that price?
Nvidia have been acting very shady in the industry for 20 years now. One review channel getting burned by them will unfortunately not result in anything in the grand scheme of things.
There's a rumour that AMD's working on a Apple M1 competitor, although there's no mention on if the SoC is x86 or Arm.
Further down the Twitter thread, the person confirmed that it's ARM.
It might be a lab project to keep in the vault for the x86 doomsday scenario.
I assume this is what you're referring to?
Considering that Nvidia said that "We [Nvidia] do have supply constraints and our supply constraints do expand past what we are seeing in terms of wafers and silicon, but yes some constrains are in substrates and components", I don't think so.A strike against the Samsung 8nm theory?New Nvidia GPU in short supply due to unsatisfactory yield at Samsung, sources say
Nvidia's new GeForce RTX 30 GPUs have been in tight supply due to unsatisfactory 8nm process yield rates at its foundry partner Samsung, according to industry sources.digitimes.com
The reason is Apple's move to Arm for their laptops and workstations.
Yeah, AMD is starting to experiment with making ARM chips again because ARM has reached a point where it could soon become an existential threat to their CPU business, not because they're trying to get their chips in any particular device (though I'm sure they wouldn't mind increasing their laptop market share). The x86 to ARM transition has been slowly moving for a while, and Apple proving that ARM is viable in PCs is only going to speed things up. We still probably have a few more milestones left to go before things start to completely collapse for x86, but AMD is going to want to be ready before that happens.
Further down the Twitter thread, the person confirmed that it's ARM.
It might be a lab project to keep in the vault for the x86 doomsday scenario.
A strike against the Samsung 8nm theory?New Nvidia GPU in short supply due to unsatisfactory yield at Samsung, sources say
Nvidia's new GeForce RTX 30 GPUs have been in tight supply due to unsatisfactory 8nm process yield rates at its foundry partner Samsung, according to industry sources.digitimes.com
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They've had x86 emulation for a while, this is for x86_64. That would probably be the most relevant one if they were secretly planning on switching Xbox to ARM, though."ya"
MS just announced their x86 emulation for ARM Windows. I wonder if they are secretly working on Xbox emulation too.Introducing x64 emulation in preview for Windows 10 on ARM PCs to the Windows Insider Program
Updated 11/16/2021: x64 emulation for Windows is now generally available in Windows 11. For those interested in experiencing this, a PC running Windows 11 on Arm is required. Today, we're releasing the first preview of x64 emulation
I mean, it's still a nintendo system and it's still a third party game. let's walk before we get our hopes up
oh, i don't believe in patterns.
Warfare? Modern warfare remake?
I'm not sure at this point. Might depend on how they updated the game over the years. Cpu requirements for mobile games might have gone way up since even mid range phones are sporting A76s and A77s. Genshin Impact still ain't on switch despite it being announced for it, probably for the same reason
Cod mobile runs on ps3/360 graphics, and Wii u did not have any trouble running cod bo 2 and cod ghosts, from a gpu standpoit. Wii u just had a weak cpu, which caused more framedrops than 360. Switch handheld mode is at least powerful as Wii u, at its lowest profile, but with a much better cpu and faster ram. Should be fine for regular multiplayer modes. I do think there would be issues in battle royale though. 30fps limited with pop ins similar to fort nite.
Actually, I think Look over there is talking about a rumour from Clien about Nintendo requesting Nvidia to fabricate the Tegra X1 at TSMC's 7 nm nodes despite TSMC and Nvidia saying that it would be difficult to exceed the Cortex-A57's limit of 1.9 GHz, but power consumption turned out higher than expected, especially when increasing the Cortex-A57's frequency from 1.9 GHz to 2.52 GHz.
They probably know that gaming cards as MCM will be a dumpster fire. Or you can argue that random guys on Twitter know better how to design GPUs than Nvidia.
There is nothing new in this tweet.
I think you're confusing big.LITTLE with DynamIQ, because Cortex-A57 does support big.LITTLE. It's just that big.LITTLE doesn't allow heterogeneous CPU cores to be simultaneously active, which I presume is the reason why Nvidia disabled the Cortex-A53 cores. DynamIQ, unlike big.LITTLE, does allow heterogeneous CPU cores in one cluster to be used simultaneously, but DynamIQ is incompatiable with big.LITTLE and are only supported by the Cortex-A75 and the Cortex-A55, or newer.
big.LITTLE gen1 didn't however, multiple clusters were available in gen 2 implementations, Switch could have been updated for it, as A57 can do it AFAIK, but wasn't, so the 4 A53 cores, which are still there, but not visible (Nvidia advertises A53 cores @ 1.3GHz in Tegra X1+ "Mariko" for their Shield TV Pro).
iirc per DF's Switch review at launch when they were building a Switch equivalent PC, they commented Switch's A57 cores had better performance compare to Jaguar cores, but Switch's A57 were also only clocked at 1Ghz, meaning per core it matched an equivalent Jaguar core. Had they been clocked higher, the per-core performance on Switch would have exceed the per core performance of the CPU cores in the XONE /PS4. It wouldn't make up for the fewer cores overall and not everything is CPU bound on Switch.
E990/ snapdragon S76x series and E1080/2100/S888 and the new S86x series will use 1 Samsung 7 / 6 / 5 EUV node which is the same node with different add-ons.
why expect 7nm? TSMC's capacity was filled up, Nvidia was beefing with them over price, and whatever slots open up that Nvidia can fill will probably be taken up by the A100, which they are behind on supply
Samsung have plenty of capacity. Especially on their new V1 line. 7/6 and 5 nm are all available. Yield will be good for <130mm2 chips.
Where have you heard about the new Snapdragon 86x SoC? I've only heard of the Snapdragon 865 and the Snapdragon 865+.
Sorry. I meant snapdragon 775 series using Samsung 6 nm node.
Not to mention, if it's the same chip just faster then there is very little extra dev work required to take advantage of it. Which is welcome for devs who have enough skus to worry about as it is.
Got you. On an unrelated note, I'm surprised that Qualcomm didn't announce the rumoured Snapdragon 775 alongside the Snapdragon 888, considering Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 765 alongside the Snapdragon 865 last year. And I hope that the rumoured Snapdragon 775 is at least competitive, performance wise, to the Exynos 1080, since I'd love to see mid-range smartphones next year performing very similarly to better than smartphones with the Snapdragon 865+ (going by how the Exynos 1080 compares to the Snapdragon 865+ on AnTuTu).
And if the successor releases in 2022, there's a chance Nintendo might use UFS 4.0, with twice the data transfer speed of UFS 3.1 (4.8 GB/s vs 2.4 GB/s), instead of UFS 3.1 for the internal flash storage, since UFS 4.0 is planned to be announced in 2H 2022.
I expect it to have been delayed by now. though 2.1 might not be terrible as it's not far off from the Series systems anyway
