nVidia To Power Nintendo DS Successor

14 Oct 2009 at 16:33:10 by Tim McDonald

GPU manufacturer nVidia has won the contract to provide a chip for the successor to the Nintendo DS.

An inside source has reportedly informed Bright Side of News (thanks, Kotaku) that Nintendo is planning on using the Tegra System-on-Chip processor, following nVidia's winning the contract to provide chips for the device.

There isn't much else in the way of detail, but this likely ties into nVidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang's comments that he expects to attribute 50% of nVidia's revenue to Tegra over the next few years.

We're still a way off from specifics, but it's interesting to note that Nintendo has apparently started work on the successor to the DS/DSi, and expects to announce it in late 2010.

More as we get it.

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