Alright, so here’s the deal with the Nintendo Switch 2. People just can’t stop poking around inside. It’s like when you get a new phone and have this itch to just see what makes it tick — except now it’s happening with gaming consoles. I stumbled on this post on Reddit that totally blew my mind. They somehow got a CT scan of the Switch 2, and you’ve got to see it to believe it. Some user—Scan-of-the-month (yep, that’s their thing)—is behind this, and apparently, they love scanning electronic stuff. Go figure.
Anyway, the image? It’s like a weirdly fascinating piece of tech art. Labels everywhere! “Here’s the battery, there’s the audio thingamajig.” And inside it all, there’s a MediaTek something handling the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Sound familiar? Yeah, it’s the usual nerdy suspects with a couple of SK Hynix chips thrown in for good measure.
Okay, so the juicy part. This Nvidia chip—oh my gosh. The Switch 2 runs on something called a GGMLX30-A1. I mean, these names, really? But hey, don’t ask me why that’s exciting; it just kind of is. I saw this video where they showed the chip layer by layer, and honestly, I got a little lost, but it looked super cool.
So, people have been tearing these things apart left and right. Some guy thought it was a genius idea to see if the screen could survive 50 hits with pliers. Spoiler: it did. Meanwhile, the whole device has been meticulously taken apart in more civilized teardown videos, and it’s amazing how much tech is in there. We’re talking about serious pieces of hardware.
Will this CT scan give us some long-term insights? Who the heck knows. But it’s still wild fun to peek under the hood, even if we’re just confirming suspicions. At the end of the day, seeing these guts out in the open is just plain neat. Oh, and while you’re pondering this, check out Tom’s Hardware. They’ve got all the techy low-down you could ever want. Just tap that follow button, if you’re into that sort of thing.
