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il bello è che molto probabilmente xbox 2 avrà sul serio un chip ATi!!!

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ATI signs tech deal with Nintendo, Xbox 2 deal likely
Rob Fahey 11:41 05/03/2003

Ninty in the bag, Xbox looms as rival NVIDIA continues to play down
involvement

Graphics chipset maker ATI has announced that it has signed a
technology development deal with Nintendo, hinting at collaboration on
future consoles, and a deal with Microsoft to supply the core chipset
for Xbox 2 looks increasingly likely.

Although there's very little detail in the announcement of the
Nintendo deal, the obvious assumption is that this means that ATI will
be supplying the graphics chip for the successor to GameCube. The
company already manufactures the Flipper chip used in the Cube, and
last week ATI engineering VP Dave Rolston told a technology conference
that the company was actively pursuing deals to work on future
consoles.

The other possibility, namely that this deal is actually to develop
technology for the successor to the Game Boy Advance - which will
almost certainly have a built-in mobile 3D processor - seems more
unlikely, but cannot be disregarded all the same.

Meanwhile, ATI's bid to develop chips for the next generation of Xbox
hardware looks even more likely to succeed today, with rival NVIDIA
continuing to distance itself from the project. NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun
Huang suggested to a recent investor briefing that the company would
not be involved with the Xbox successor due to the engineering
difficulties involved - although of course, the fairly public spats
between NVIDIA and Microsoft over things like pricing and
documentation won't have helped matters.

Huang also commented on the forthcoming PlayStation 3, stating his
belief that Sony was going to have massive manufacturing difficulties
with the hugely powerful Cell processors which will form the heart of
the machine.

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