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Title: Nintendo is reportedly using Samsung to build the main Switch 2 chips

Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 12:00:06 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/gaming/nintendo/nint...

Nintendo hired Samsung to build the main chips for the Switch 2, including an
8-nanometer processor custom designed by NVIDIA, Bloomberg reported. That
would mark a move by Nintendo away from TSMC, which manufactured the chipset
for the original 2017 Switch. Nintendo had no comment, saying it doesn't
disclose its suppliers. Samsung and NVIDIA also declined to discuss the
matter.

Samsung has previously supplied Nintendo with flash memory and displays, but
building the Switch 2's processor would be a rare win for the company's
contract chip division. Samsung can reportedly build enough chips to allow
Nintendo to ship 20 million or more Switch 2s by March of 2026.

NVIDIA's new chipset was reportedly optimized for Samsung's, rather than
TSMC's manufacturing process. Using Samsung also means that Nintendo won't be
competing with Apple and others for TSMC's resources. During Nintendo's
latest earnings call, President Shuntaro Furukawa's said that the company
didn't expect any component shortages with its new console ΓÇö an issue that
plagued the original Switch.

Nintendo said in the same earnings report that it was caught by surprise with
2.2 million applications for Switch 2 pre-orders in Japan alone. Despite
that, the company projected sales of 15 million Switch 2 units in its first
year on sale to March 2026, fewer than analyst predictions of 16.8 million
ΓÇö likely due to the impact of Trump's tariffs.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at
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