Nvidia's custom Tegra chip powers the Nintendo Switch.
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Nvidia gets back into console chips with custom Tegra for Nintendo Switch

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Nvidia is back in the game console race with a new chip that serves as the heart of the newly unveiled Nintendo Switch gaming device, which is a hybrid of a portable machine and a home console.

The Switch runs on a custom Tegra processor. Since these processors are for mobile devices, you can assume that the new Switch has mobile wireless data capabilities, either through Wi-Fi or 4G/LTE mobile data.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.