An early one! I had a late night with Pokemon Snap, what can I say? Anyhoo, Next Generation says that we'll see what Art-X has been up to on October 6th. Read on my friends!
On October 6th at the San Jose Fairmont Hotel, ArtX, the computer graphics startup designing the Dolphin graphics hardware, will reveal a PC version of its much-vaunted graphic chip. The ArtX1 is actually a low cost graphics solution for low cost PCs. The actual Dolphin will presumably remain under wraps until Nintendo says otherwise. However, the Microprocessor Forum's own documentation describes the PC chip as, "paralleling ArtX's work on Nintendo's Dolphin video-game console."
The technology included in the chip is very firmly under wraps, but should give some clues as to what we can expect to see in the Nintendo Dolphin chip. The demonstration and description of the new technology will be given by Tim Van Hook, VP, Chief technologist and Founder of ArtX. That section of the conference will ironically hosted by Ken Kutaragi, the President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America.
