 Hey everyone, I had to get on camera for this because this is a massive deal. This is a huge shake-up in the entire tech industry and it could actually directly affect the Nintendo Switch or at least future Switch products, future anything coming from Nvidia and Nintendo's partnership because remember, Nintendo left AMD this generation. They have been with AMD pretty much throughout the entire history of the company just like what we're seeing in PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X actually see a benefit of sticking with AMD and getting you know the new big Navi architecture for their GPUs in their system. Obviously going to use the Ryzen stuff in their systems as well. So obviously there's been a big benefit to PlayStation and you know basically the PlayStation Xbox brand to stick with AMD but Nintendo might now start seeing a massive, oh man, a massive jolt because of a purchase that is about to go down from Nvidia. Before we get into that I need to remind you of our giveaways. 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I want to see if we can get a third video to do it and on top of that, if we hit 500 likes, I'll give away a copy of Pikmin 3 Deluxe next month. Why not? Why not just get the hype started for a new giveaway for next month? So yeah, if you are interested in Pikmin 3 Deluxe, might as well hit the like on that video. All right, let's get into the video here. This comes from Tom's hardware.com. I don't know if you guys follow the tech space. I'm not sure what you actually pay attention to when it comes to your tech news. Maybe you just follow YouTubers. We don't talk about a ton of tech stuff all the time but I'm kind of a tech head, right? I like the latest tech. I love the, you know, all the news coming out about the 3000 series GPUs, you know, the 3070 to 3080, the 3090, which is what I would love as a content creator. I love the 3090. You know, we're hearing about, you know, brand new, you know, 4000 series aka Ryzen, Gen 3 or whatever it is. CPUs. We're hearing about that next month and also the big Navi reveal finally is going to happen and those products should be out before the end of the year, if not early spring. So I love tech. I'm a huge tech guy. I actually one day want to start up a tech channel where I get to talk about more than just video games in terms of Nintendo. I'd actually would love to talk about all of tech, including PC stuff but that's for another day. Today Nvidia is making a purchase, a purchase that is going to blow your mind. They are considering purchasing ARM. All right. So in a deal that would undoubtedly change the semiconductor industry for years to come according to the Wall Street Journal, Nvidia is close to finalizing a deal with Softbank to purchase ARM holdings for more than 40 billion USD dollars in stock and cash. The deal is expected to be officially announced early next week. While the exact terms and final sale price of the deal are unknown, the 40 billion offer would represent a tidy profit for Softbank who originally purchased ARM for 32 billion dollars four years ago. As part of the deal Nvidia would likely be subject to regulatory approvals that would compile the company to continue to license the ARM architecture to existing customers but it would still gain access to a treasure trove of IP and engineering talents that could enable the company to quickly develop custom CPU architectures for its own use which would then further the company's broadening push into the profit-rich data center market. Nvidia has long held the position in AI compute in the data center particularly in the leading supercomputers. However AMD and Intel by virtue of having both CPU and GPU production in-house can tie the CPU and GPU together in a much more sophisticated way than Nvidia could due to their purpose-built designs. As a result the most important supercomputer contracts from the Department of Energy have recently gone to Intel and AMD both of which have the advantage of tightly coupled GPU and CPU architectures that will empower the world's first exascale class supercomputers. Derivatives of those same designs will eventually filter into the broader market. In comparison Nvidia's singular focus on GPU compute limits its ability to compete with complex designs that fully leverage the advantage of memory coherency between the accelerators. Now we're getting into much of technical stuff. What basically this enables them to do is it enables them to basically make CPUs make their own CPUs. ARM is very popular it's in a lot of phones right that's what most of us know ARM processes for it's in a lot of phones. You know I've got it's in the Nintendo switch okay the Tegra X1 chip in here uses ARM processors but it's in partnership with ARM it's not in-house it's not wholly owned by Nvidia but with this purchase not only could it not only should Intel and AMD be shaking in their boots maybe Intel more than anything because Intel's lost a lot of ground to AMD and we'll see what happens if they can get the ARM supercomputer stuff back on track because there are ARM stuff in some supercomputers but obviously they haven't got the recent contracts. This means a huge deal in the multi-billion-dollar trillion-dollar business world for supercomputers but it also is a big deal for mobile. See right now the Tegra chip uses in the switch anyways uses a 4x ARM Cortex A57 chip and there's actually another chip in there as well another ARM chip but I think the cores are inactive or whatever it because it's just part of the part of the original chip design but it's not being used in switch. The thing is there's much better mobile ARM processors much much better than the ARM Cortex A57 like much better but we haven't really seen them appear in an Nvidia mobile APU which is a GPU CPU combo in addition they don't always necessarily work you know in tandem as well as they could because Nvidia doesn't own ARM so they have to build you know these kind of workarounds to make ARM and Nvidia GPUs work together whereas AMD and Intel which makes their own graphics and stuff can more closely connect the the designs together as they're being made so what's interesting here is that this could be a massive deal for a Nintendo switch because Nintendo got in bed with with Nvidia. They got in bed maybe not even knowing that they were going to purchase ARM. Nintendo got in bed with a company that has the most powerful GPUs in the world but they don't have anything to offer CPU wise with the ARM partnership not only could this potentially make ARM CPUs cheaper for Nintendo because now they're all under one umbrella they're not sublet from a different company it could also make the architecture much more fluid going forward now this isn't going to be something that's going to affect any like soon to be released hardware you know we know all about the rumors we know about such a switch pro next gen switch probably more like a switch pro coming out next year right we we've all heard about that this contract wouldn't have anything to do with that it would be with existing technologies an upgraded you know current Tegra or or slightly improved you know new gen Maxwell Tegra or something uh there's obviously potential we've heard about the 4k potential it's going to be built on volta backwards compatibility is going to be a bit of an issue there but that's not our problem to worry about that's on Nintendo and Nvidia to figure out backwards compatibility issues and making sure all games run on it day one that are currently in switch again that's not our problem as consumers not our problem Nintendo would have to figure that out Nvidia would have to figure that out but for a next gen switch for a 2022 2023 2024 product assuming that Nintendo and Nvidia are still partners holy crap ARM processors are some of the best mobile processors and supercomputer processors in the world now they're not consumer end processors typically these aren't the kind of processors you're going to buy for your desktop PCs that might change with Nvidia purchasing it they might take make desktop level ARM processors but for now they're mobile and supercomputer that's what they specialize in and for switch owners that's massive this is going to bring the cost of chips down for Nintendo and we're going to bring the cost of chips down for Nvidia they don't have to license it they fully own it and this is going to make potentially cheaper Tegra chips in the future for Nintendo that are next gen quality we're talking three thousand series and better potentially architecture in a mobile GPU that has the latest and greatest ARM mobile technology combined into it for a price for a price that Nintendo might have been paying already for the Tegra X1s back in 2015 2016 2017 when they were manufacturing and coming up with the idea for switching the first place that's huge that is huge now obviously we've heard rumors in the past that Nintendo got a really really good deal on the Tegra X1 chips because Nvidia's products for it basically flopped everywhere but china so like Nvidia Shield TV sells well in china but it doesn't really sell well anywhere else so we heard that you know maybe they got a really good deal on that but they looked at Nintendo as the possibility to get their GPU architecture into a standard video game system because it was very very strange that the number one highest end GPU manufacturer in the entire world was not present in any home console PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PlayStation you know three two everything's been AMD AMD has just dominated in the home console space forever and Nvidia had nothing going on they had basically gaming PC GPUs and supercomputer GPUs they didn't really have anything in between workstation GPUs they didn't have anything really going on outside of the PC space until switch came along I mean they tried with the Nvidia Shield TV but the switch is a much bigger success so I don't think that Nintendo is suddenly going to get a worse deal on next gen chips I think Nintendo might wait you know the chips might be 2021 2022 chips Nintendo waits until 2023 2024 to release a system but when it comes I mean you're starting to think that a 4k capable switch with with 8 core 16 you know 8 core 16 thread ARM CPUs in it based on Volta or better technology is completely possible and possible at a price that becomes affordable to consumers that's huge now for Nvidia this ARM purchases way about way more than than switch way more than their partnership with Nintendo it's about the super computer space it's about them being the the next GPU manufacturer to actually make their own processors in-house so there's a whole lot to consider for for Nvidia to spend 40 billion yes with a B dollars and it also kind of puts in perspective how small Nintendo is compared like Nintendo's got you know is the most is the richest company in all of Japan they ain't got 40 billion to be buying any any ARM company let me tell you but this is really good news as Nintendo owners we should be excited as Nintendo fans we should be excited about Nintendo's future partnership with Nvidia because Nvidia just basically made a purchase that is going to lead to better switch products down the road as long as Nintendo keeps the partnership intact and again we've heard it was a decade long partnership we can't be more than three four five years into that partnership so yeah I would assume next-gen switch is going to be in the same technology and I would assume that contract might have already been renewed at this point and Nvidia locking down ARM is just going to make Nintendo want to renew even more because they're now they're building you know they're off that power pc they're off the AMD stuff they're into this this ARM Nvidia stuff they're going to keep closely tying that APU architecture together Nintendo's going to want to tag along for the ride this is nothing but great news for Nintendo and gamers don't be wrong what AMD is doing great I I literally use a Ryzen 2700x in my computer now and I'm potentially waiting to buy the next then the next RDNA2 big navi GPUs over the 3000 series because they might be more budget friendly I'm actually looking into having an almost all AMD system to be completely honest for my desktop I love AMD they are one of my favorite companies in in the tech space but man for switch AMD ain't got nothing for switch that architecture all the stuff they got it it doesn't work in such a tiny little dinky package but Nvidia's got the GPU power and now they're gonna have the CPU power some of the best mobile CPU power in-house exciting times are ahead for not only Nvidia but for Nintendo fans I want to thank you guys for tuning in let me know what you think about this news down in the comments below sure to enter all those giveaways and I'll catch you in the next video