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Nintendo and ATI: A History
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Nintendo and ATI: A History With the recent news that ATi will be working with Microsoft on the Xbox 2, where does this leave ATi and Nintendo? A while back in this mailbag you mentioned that they had been working on a chip for the next system for a while now, but I've heard recently that they might have severed connections between the companies. Can you shed any light on the situation? Matt responds: There's actually a long history here. Let me see if I can explain it. Basically, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, Nintendo selected a company called SGI to design the graphics architecture for its Nintendo 64 system. Dr. Wei Yen led the team that worked on the chipset. More than five years later, Dr. Wei Yen left SGI to form the Palo Alto, California-based ArtX, and he took a great deal of the original SGI Nintendo team with him. Soon afterward, SGI sued, but the suit went nowhere. Later, in a surprise move (at the time), Nintendo selected ArtX to develop the GameCube graphics processor, codenamed "Flipper." Well, into the development of this chip, graphics card maker powerhouse ATI acquired ArtX. I believe that Yen still sits on ATI's board. Since, the ArtX group at ATI has allegedly been in development with the graphics chipset for the successor to GameCube. A cryptic announcement was made in March in this regard. It is supposedly progressing steadily. As I understand it, Nintendo is too far in with the ATI chipset to sever ties at this point, even if it wanted to. ATI is all-too capable of creating separate products for Nintendo and Microsoft at the same time because it has multiple operations and multiple teams. In the end, the chipsets may be very similar, but this would probably more of a coincidence than anything else. |
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Radeon350 wrote:
http://cube.ign.com/mail.html Nintendo and ATI: A History SNIPPED MORE TROLLING ****E I'm so glad you're around to post absolutely nothing relevant to any of the groups you've posted your drivelling ****e to recently. If I were you, I'd be changing my name to ****tard350, 'cause that's pretty much all you are. -- take a hit dude, bongdaddyboo |
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"Jay Michaels" wrote in message m... Actually, it was a pretty interesting article .... I agree |
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bongdaddyboo wrote:
:: I'm so glad you're around to post absolutely nothing relevant to any :: of the groups you've posted your drivelling ****e to recently. That article was pretty interesting imho... stop whining |
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Icarus ^i^ wrote:
bongdaddyboo wrote: I'm so glad you're around to post absolutely nothing relevant to any of the groups you've posted your drivelling ****e to recently. That article was pretty interesting imho... stop whining Ok. Give me a jug of custard to go with my humble pie. And while the article was actually interesting, it's an exercise in trolling itself from the OP and I stand by my original post. -- take a hit dude, bongdaddyboo |
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