During the recent Computex, Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO at NVIDIA, has talked about the Ping-Pong strategy (Source: 4gamers.net): every two years NVIDIA will show a new GPU architecture, a new CPU architecture and it will use a new process node.
This means that every two years we have to see a completly new Tegra SoC ... or not?
The present Tegra X1 SoC (2015) is based on Denver CPU, Maxwell 2.0 GPU and it's produced on the 20nm SOC of TSMC. According to this strategy, the next SoC “Parker” (expected at 4Q15 or 1Q16) will don't have a new CPU or a new GPU. Maxwell 2.0 is a 3Q14 architecture, meanwhile Denver is a 1Q15 architecture.
Pascal, if we give credit to this Ping-Pong strategy, will be ready during 3Q16, meanwhile the next CPU architecture will be ready during the 1H17.
This means that the next “Parker” SoC will use again Denver and Maxwell 2.0, but will be produced on 16nm of TSMC or on 14nm of Samsung. Also, this means that the next gen of GPUs based on Pascal will be ready only during the 3Q or 4Q 2016. The rumors about Pascal at 1H16 are unrealistic.