It utilizes a Cortex-A57 / -A53 architecture. This combination enabled balanced performance. We found it to be very well-suited for a mobile console. Particularly noteworthy is the integrated NVIDIA Tegra X1 (Maxwell) graphics unit. It laid the foundation for the console's well-known. The Tegra X1 targets a wide range of applications including mobile devices and automobiles. Tegra X1 consumes 117,6 mm 2 on TSMC's 20 nm (20 SoC) process and. Tegra is a system on a chip (SoC) series developed by Nvidia for mobile devices such as smartphones, personal digital assistants, and mobile Internet devices. The Tegra integrates an ARM architecture central processing unit (CPU), graphics processing unit (GPU), northbridge, southbridge, and memory. The Nintendo Switch 's processor, manufactured by NVIDIA, was a clever design. The whole cluster, including some cache memory, takes up just over 13 square millimeters.
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