Odhliadnuc od odlišnosti čipov vždy mi tieto riešenia pripomínajú niekdajšie VIA CoreFusion (Mark, Luke)
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Luke_CoreFusion/VIA-Luke%20CoreFusion%201.0GHz.html
https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2003/0314/cebit04.htm
Takže NVIDIA je na ťahu s oslovením Zhaoxin-u (VIA) na semicutom produkt :-)
Jojo, to Nintendo tam přidalo 250-300 milionů/kvartál (odhadem). To by mohlo znamenat, že díky tomu, že je to mobilní čip a tak, si za něj Nvidia účtuje celkem dost. Je to paradoxní, protože dřív Nintendo na tom křemíku v konzolích až extrémně škudlilo (Wii, Wii U). Zajímalo by mě, jestli mají časem slíbenou nějakou slevu, nebo na to rezignovali.
Do roka tu máme 16nm FF TSMC 3.0+GHz Zhaoxin KX-6000 Series SoC a teraz netvrdím , že semicustom produkt musí byť MCM, ale dGPU NVIDIA by si tam určite nasla miesto napr. v VR x86 konzole hlavne keď platí (a nebudem prekladať):
Cher Wang as co-founder and chairperson (Chairwoman & CEO) of HTC Corporation (which manufactured HTC VIVE and one out of every six smartphones sold in the USA) and integrated chipset maker VIA Technologies Inc. Her husband is Wen Chi Chen, the CEO of VIA Tchnologies Inc.
Zhaoxin (Shanghai Zhaoxin Semiconductor Co., Ltd., also goes by VIA Alliance Semiconductor Co., Ltd.) is Chinese fabless semiconductor company jointly owned by VIA Technologies and the Shanghai Municipal Government. Respectively Zhaoxin was established in April 2013 with a total registered capital of USD$250M. As a joint venture between Shanghai Alliance Investment Ltd. who is affiliated to Shanghai SASAC and VIA Technologies, Inc.
Zhaoxin has about 1200 employees and locates its headquarter at Zhangjiang of Shanghai with branches in Beijing, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Shenzhen, Taiwan, California (VIA Alliance Technology, Inc.) and Texas of America (Centaur Technology Inc.).
Zhaoxin has access to Centaur Technology's design team along with VIA's patent portfolio and intellectual property, including access to all of VIA's Centaur Technology x86 microarchitectures.
Zhaoxin has also access to S3 Graphics design team along with HTC Corporation (before VIA's) patent portfolio and intellectual property, including access to all of HTC Corporation (before VIA's) S3 Graphics GPU microarchitectures as independent intellectual property GPU.
tj. malá krabička k VR VIVE či už gen 1 alebo gen 2 na báze x86 riešenia, ktoré nielen že bude VR herná konzola a zároveň klasické PC s dGPU NVIDIA (a naozaj nechám na nich či MCM alebo mobilná dGPU, či embedded dGPU on-board).
To L-kové púzdro bol VIA CoreFusion Mark tzv. (1.generácia)
Áno bola to kuriozita pretože VIA CoreFusion Luke (tzv 2.generácia) už bol klasická koncepcia CPU+NB (v tej dobe) v jednom púzdre, kde SouthBridge tvoril samostatná čip.
VIA CoreFusion John (mala byž 3.generácia - roadmapy s ňou rátali) tj. CPU + all-in-one chipset ako napr. VX800 (VX900/VX11) už nikdy oficiálne nevydali aj keď ES samozrejme existovali.
ONO je naozaj veľká škoda, že tzv. "TROJKA" (NVIDIA + VIA) sa nikdy nedala dokopy...