The former feature could be a huge advantage for the Big N’s next platform, and the latter sounds logical given Nvidia’s use of the technology…

Doctre81 talks about what he found on the LinkedIn profile of a former Nintendo employee in a new video. The person in question worked for the Japanese company from February 2021 to August 2023, two and a half years, and took an existing project and redesigned it to be less complex, increase performance, and implement new features while keeping the existing ones. This definition sounds a lot like the as-yet-unnamed (and reportedly codenamed NG) Switch successor to us, as we can’t really imagine this definition for any other product. And the preservation and maintenance of existing features might suggest that backwards compatibility could be a possibility (which is to be expected given how well the Switch sold!).

The LinkedIn profile even suggests that the successor to the Nintendo Switch could have machine learning features, as the developer lists his skills as having worked not only on machine/deep learning at the Japanese company, but also on Nvidia’s TensorRT. This is an open source library that accelerates and optimizes the inference performance of the latest large language models. And the mention of the ARM assembly suggests that the new console will (also) have such a processor, like its predecessor. The graphics chip is rumored to be based on Nvidia’s Ampere architecture.

Meanwhile, we still know very little about the successor to the Nintendo Switch. The other day we wrote that if the September 24 release date doesn’t work out, when it might be available instead, but we refuted that since it falls on a day this week that doesn’t seem realistic. We should add that this is not official information, so until the big N confirms what the new platform is, we can only wait (and report on the rumors).

Source: WCCFTech