United States: AMD and ATI contracted to provide next generation Xbox chips.Byline: prashant03 It s a banner day for chipmakers scoring game console See video game console. contracts. Hot on the news that NVIDIA have secured a contract to provide their system on a chip Tegra platform for a new Nintendo handheld to be released in 2010 comes word that the California based semiconductor firm Advanced Micro Devices (more colloquially col·lo·qui·al adj. 1. Characteristic of or appropriate to the spoken language or to writing that seeks the effect of speech; informal. 2. Relating to conversation; conversational. known as AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. ) have landed a contract to provide the chips that will power Microsoft s next generation console. It s not totally a surprise, of course. ATI (ATI Technologies Inc., Markham Ontario, http://ati.amd.com) A leading manufacturer of graphics chips and display adapters. Founded in 1985 by K. Y. Ho, Benny Lau and Lee Lau, ATI chips and boards are widely used by OEMs. s Xenos chipset currently pushes the GPU GPU: see secret police. (Graphics Processing Unit) A specialized logic chip devoted to rendering 2D or 3D images. Display adapters contain one or more GPUs for fast graphics rendering. horsepower on the current generation Xbox 360 console. Microsoft appears to be so happy with that partnership that according to tech site Fudzilla, Microsoft was eager to lock AMD in (which merged with ATI in 2006) to provide the chips for the next generation. It also makes functional sense. Even while companies like Sony have wavered on backwards compatibility, Microsoft seems serious about it, offering excellent backwards compatibility with Xbox games on the 360 console and even delivering them digitally through the Games on Demand service. Staying with ATI guarantees that the bar to backwards compatibility with existing 360 titles will be easier to hurtle hur·tle v. hur·tled, hur·tling, hur·tles v.intr. To move with or as if with great speed and a rushing noise: an express train that hurtled past. v.tr. , since the technology will be similar. And, indeed, Techdirt is announcing that the new GPU will allow for Xbox 360 backwards compatibility. With this rumor, gamers also get the first whiff of when the 360 will become the 720 or 1080: reportedly, although they were initially going to refresh the Xbox platform in 2010, Microsoft now intends to update it in 2012. Since the 360 is still a very capable system, that s good news for gamers and game developers alike. Copyright : Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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