Nvidia Arm Nintendo

Nvidia is the leading maker of gpus which arm also designs but other than its tegra line of mobile chipsets used in devices like the nintendo switch nvidia doesn t do much in the way of cpu.

Nvidia arm nintendo. Nvidia licenses arm for many of its products most notably its system on chip soc platforms from which it builds tegra systems such as those found in some self driving cars and the nintendo switch. Well that s the interesting part to speculate about. Arm chips are used in almost all smartphones these days and have previously been found in the game boy advance nintendo ds 3ds and switch nvidia s tegra system on a chip uses arm silicon as. For nintendo switch on the nintendo switch a gamefaqs message board topic titled nvidia acquires arm.

That said should the deal go through nvidia buying arm could mean a lot of major improvements to the tegra chipset and could theoretically be a good thing for nintendo down the line. Through this deal nvidia will expand its reach to the mobile market beyond just its tegra chip that also uses arm architecture which is used in certain devices like the nintendo switch. Nvidia also licenses arm architecture for its tegra processors which can be found in its own branded shield tv family of 4k media streamers as well as the nintendo switch nintendo switch lite. Nvidia powers the massively popular nintendo switch with an arm based tegra soc something that also powers the nvidia shield family of products.

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