ATI na proxima XBOX?

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ATI eyes next generation consoles

Rob Fahey
Graphics giant actively pursuing future work with Nintendo, Microsoft

PC graphics chipset manufacturer ATI Technologies has announced its intention to pursue future work in the games console market with both Nintendo and Microsoft, with the company's VP of engineering, Dave Rolston, telling a technology conference that work on successors to Xbox and GameCube would be "of great interest".

ATI currently supplies the graphics hardware for the GameCube, a chip codenamed Flipper which is based on technology originally developed by a smaller company which was later purchased by ATI. Xbox, however, is powered by a chipset from ATI's main rival in the PC hardware market, NVIDIA, but recent rumours have suggested that ATI may indeed by the current favourite to provide technology for Xbox 2, with NVIDIA itself seeming non-committal about working on a successor to the console in recent statements.

Rolston was speaking to the conference about ATI's forthcoming R350 chipset, which is due for release within the next month and seems likely to give the company a significant performance lead over NVIDIA's competing product, the GeForce FX. NVIDIA, for its part, appears to have almost conceded this round of the battle to ATI, with sources close to the company stating that the GeForce FX chipset is to be played down in favour of focusing on the company's next generation product, codenamed NV35.
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XBOX e GAMECUBE podem ser as proximas "vitimas" da ATI!
GREAT NEWS para os ATI Lovers :-D
 
Deixa-me adivinhar... essa notícia é do Inquirer? :)

Duvido que tal venha a acontecer. O diferendo que existia entre a MS e a Nvidia sobre a Xbox foi resolvido já no início do mês de Fevereiro. Bastou um cheque do Bill de 40 milhões e ficaram amigos como sempre.

Creio que a Xbox 2 vai ter o mesmo modelo de governance que a PSx/PS2. A MS "dá" aos fabricantes o conceito e vai buscar algum dinheiro nas royalties da consola e jogos.

Algo que não aconteceu com a Xbox.
 
Sim tb duvido que a MS largue a nVidia... as parcerias são para isto mesmo. A nVidia pode fornecer logo mobo e gráfica o que centraliza um bocado mais os custos.

Logos da nVidia nos jogos da XBOX é que espero nunca ver...
 
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