Nintendo chose the Tegra chip for its next handheld console.

Tegra increasingly popular

After the Microsoft Zune HD BeatPlayer M1 and Samsung, NVIDIA would have found a partner that would enable it to achieve its objective, which relies on the fact that sales of Tegra should represent 50% of the turnover of firm a few years.

The success of the Nintendo DS is more to do with 68.3% market share and more than 110 million units in nature is the best console in terms of sales, any platform (mobile and lounge) confused. The graphics is currently supported by an ARM chip.

Tegra: the dream platform for the Nintendo DS?

The successor of the DS is expected by the end of next year, which adds weight to these rumors. Indeed, Nintendo needs to finalize the specifications early enough to leave the development kits needed. Unlike Tegra current version offered by NVIDIA in Japanese would be composed of only one chip built on a Cortex A9, which means that Nintendo DS will be backwards compatible.

The Chameleon would leave its new generation of Tegra chips early next year. We have thus a glimpse of what could land in the next handheld console from Mario.