Alright, here we go.
You know how it is when something new and shiny hits the shelves. The Nintendo Switch 2? Yeah, people couldn’t wait—like me at a buffet—to crack it open and see what it’s packin’. We kinda already had a clue about the guts, but hey, anything to get up close and personal, right? So I stumbled across this post on Reddit (it’s a rabbit hole I fall into more often than I’d like to admit). Anyway, someone decided to CT scan the Switch 2. Sounds wild, right? Like using an MRI to check your pockets for spare change.
Now, the Tegra 2 scan is floating around out there. Redditors are having a field day with it. There’s this person—calls themselves “Scan-of-the-month” or something snazzy like that—loves to scan all sorts of gadgets. Apple AirPods, Flipper Zero—you name it, they’ve scanned it. Why they’d target the Switch 2? Beats me. But I appreciate their curiosity, ya know?
So, the scan’s like a geek’s map to hidden treasure. Everything’s got a label: the chunky 5220mAh battery showing off on the left, next to a Realtek audio codec like they’re best buddies. Then there’s Wi-Fi and Bluetooth stuff from MediaTek doing the whole wireless magic. And hey, some SK Hynix bits too—256GB storage and 12GB of RAM, living their best life inside the Switch.
The big reveal? The Nvidia SoC. We thought it was a Tegra chip all along, and bam, there it is with a GGMLX30-A1 tag. Kinda like finally naming a stray cat you’ve been feeding. There’s even a video zooming in on the chip layers like some techno love letter.
Not everyone’s feeling the love, though. The Switch 2 went through serious hazing—someone went total Hulk mode with pliers on the screen. Fifty times, believe it or not. There’s also this calm teardown video; piece by piece, it’s all laid bare. It’s like tech surgery but oddly satisfying.
Who knows what happens next? The Switch is still ticking, seems happy enough. Seeing all those bits and bobs inside is neat, even if it’s stuff we kinda guessed. But hey, assumptions are for amateurs. Seeing’s believing, right?
