nVidia, abandoned by Intel, is Nintendo console?

The fall did eventually for nVidia. While worries about graphics cards still overhang accounts, the acquisition of ATI by AMD has gradually closed the market for chipsets for Athlons. To make matters worse, the relationship with Intel is not set fair, the processor giant has refused the necessary license to produce chipsets for its last-born (the Core i5 and i7) to nVidia and the land of Atom, fares very (too?) packs its preferential Atom + chipset increase the cost of platforms ION. Logical, Robert Sherbin, a spokesmen for the company, has recently confessed gel developments coming chipsets.

Like other specialists graphics chips before him, nVidia could well end in a specialist graphics chips for mobile devices. One of the latest rumors about the manufacturer calls the agreement with Nintendo to provide the heart of the next handheld console from Japanese giant. Here, no geForce, ION and other names more familiar, Tegra place a SoC combining an ARM processor and an nVidia GPU. Tegra team already HD Microsoft Zune (that Europe is not ready to see ...) and the M1 from Samsung. But these two products are little known and are far from knowing the success of portable consoles Japanese sold the least, the Game Boy Advance, had reached 80 million units, while Nintendo DS has surpassed the 110 million sales . The next handheld console creators of Mario out could end 2010.