Post by: Uglydot on August 14, 2003, 05:25:11 AM
Yep, ATI is officially with Microsoft. Wonder if they will also power the next Nintendo console or if Nintendo is looking elsewhere?
Post by: Bill Aurion on August 14, 2003, 05:27:50 AM
Post by: a4164 on August 14, 2003, 06:26:45 AM
Funny you should mention that. ATI has 2 dev teams Malborough (mostly original ATI, R100/R200) and their California team (mostly ArtX, R300/Flipper/N64 Reality Co-Processor). If they wanted to give each team a project they could. I'm guessing the ArtX team gets GC2 and the Malborough team gets Xbox2.
ATI to power Xbox2
ATI technology agreement with Nintendo
Post by: manunited4eva22 on August 14, 2003, 01:29:23 PM
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Post by: Inkwell on August 14, 2003, 04:34:45 PM
Post by: Bill Aurion on August 14, 2003, 04:42:07 PM
The two chips will be made according to the specs both MS and Ninty want. Money has nothing to do with how good each chip will end up.
Post by: Inkwell on August 14, 2003, 04:47:38 PM
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Post by: ThePerm on August 14, 2003, 10:10:05 PM
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Post by: a4164 on August 15, 2003, 01:00:41 PM
ATI already produces chips for Nintendo (news - web sites) Co. Ltd.'s (7974.OS) GameCube under a royalty agreement. Bergman said he did not expect the Microsoft deal to affect its Nintendo relationship and stressed it's not unusual for chip companies to supply products to competing firms.
"We've had a good strong long history with Nintendo and we don't expect any impact...we're comfortable with our relationship with Nintendo and I think we're great partners," he said.
David Orton now CEO of ATI was also the head of ArtX under the N64/Flipper development. The strong ties with Nintendo are still intact. I doubt either Nintendo or MS care that they use a similar VPU from the same company. Its the content that sells consoles, not tech specs.
Post by: mouse_clicker on August 15, 2003, 02:21:02 PM
Post by: ThePerm on August 15, 2003, 08:33:29 PM
Post by: a4164 on August 16, 2003, 12:15:51 AM
With the deal, ATI will now apparently design graphics chips for two next-generation consoles, manufactured by Micorosoft and Nintendo. In March, ATI said it was developing technologies for use in future products, also suspected to be a game console. the same month where ATI signed a deal with Intel to design core logic chips and other products for use with Intel's Pentium M mobile processor.
Don't expect the graphics capabilities of future Nintendo and Microsoft products to be exactly the same, however, the ATI spokesman said. "Yes, we have different design teams working on them, with different requirements and different timetables," the spokesman said.
Individual teams are working on the VPU successor to Xbox and GameCube.
Post by: manunited4eva22 on August 16, 2003, 05:49:40 AM
Before artx, ati hadn't come anywhere close to taking the top place in graphics cards, 9700Pro was helped out more than a little by ArtX.
Not to say that ATi hasn't learned a lot from ArtX, but hey, it's not the same as the teacher.
Post by: mouse_clicker on August 16, 2003, 08:53:25 AM
Post by: Uglydot on August 16, 2003, 08:58:04 AM
Post by: Djunknown on August 18, 2003, 08:45:18 PM
I mentioned waaay back that it was almost like a tag team match between NVIDIA and MS VS ATI and Nintendo. Looks like ATI is playing both fields and may come out the winner! NVIDIA on the other hand gets the screw from Microsoft; that's gotta sting a little...
Unless MS gets the best of both worlds and has NVIDIA and ATI under the same roof. Highly unlikely as those two companies want to grind the other in the dirt.
Post by: slacker on August 29, 2003, 02:12:22 PM
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Post by: Celebi on August 30, 2003, 07:10:20 AM
Post by: Cap on August 30, 2003, 03:30:01 PM
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Well,I don't hear much news about ATI talking about their work for Nintendo anymore since early this year.
most likely becouse nintendo doesnt want them too, not becouse they arent working with them. i dont think nintendo would want ati to be the one giving out info on their next console. theres really not much else for ati to say.
Post by: KDR_11k on August 31, 2003, 08:30:04 AM
