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Possible NVidia Link To PS3 Disputed

Posted by simoniker on from the don't-even-think-about-it-say-no-go dept.

Thanks to Gamesindustry.biz for their report that a source close to Sony suggests nVidia's rumored involvement with the PlayStation 3 is 'ridiculous'. According to the article, which dismisses earlier analyst reports, the source claims "...it was a 'ridiculous suggestion' that Sony would look elsewhere for a designer and manufacturer for the graphics processor (GPU) for the future console. 'Sony has its own chip design teams and manufacturing facilities with massive experience in this sort of thing,' he commented. 'Lashing NVIDIA's technology onto the PS3 architecture would simply make no sense either technologically or commercially.'"

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  1. Re:Well, yeah... by DarkGamer20X6 · · Score: 2, Informative

    ATI made the chipset for the Gamecube. Look on the front of one; they bear the ATI logo in the lower corner.

  2. Re:Well, yeah... by silentbobdp · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, ArtX did the GC's graphics, and was bought by ATi before the GC was actually released.

    It hasn't been announced yet that they're doing the Gamecube's successor, and I wouldn't expect it to be. There's a major conflict of interest there.

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    --Moo.
  3. Re:Well, yeah... by My+name+isn't+Tim · · Score: 4, Informative

    actually ATi makes many non PC based chips, the Gamecube example has already been pointed out.
    but they also make graphics chips for PDAs and cell phones
    http://www.ati.com/products/handheld.html
    and chips for Digital TV
    http://www.ati.com/products/dtv.html
    and MPEG decoder/encoder chips and some others I can't think of right now...