Nvidia Partners with Sony on PS3 GPU

Anonymous Coward writes "Just a rumour last year, but it looks like Sony and Nvidia will be partnering for the PS3. Sony will be doing the manufacturing in one of their Nagasaki plants." From the article: "The move signals a shifting of allegiances for NVIDIA, who developed the graphics hardware at the heart of the original Microsoft Xbox, only for the Redmond-based platform holder to turn around and partner with fierce rivals ATI for 'future Xbox products' last August."

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Re:Awesome!

[bhima]

Rich? It's worth about 1/3 of what it was in the summer of 2001. I have it and I'm not rich!

Re:PS3 with NVidia?

[SScorpio]

*Tosses the Troll some rancid meat*

It sounds like you have one of four issues.

1. You have defective card. It happens, if it's under warrenty try returning it for one that works properly. I had this issue when I bought my current GeForce 4200TI and it wouldn't run in at 2x AGP correctly. RMA'd it with NewEgg and got a new one that works wonderfully, even at 8x which my new Athlon64 MB runs it at.

2. Your Motherboard is crap and can't supply the card with the needed power. I had an old Gigabit Dual P3 board that caused with issue with an old SDR Geforce 1. That board finally died and I replaced it with a ABIT BX6R2 and everything ran great.

3. Your powersupply isn't powerful enough to deliver the needed power to everything in your computer. Are you running a manufactored Gateway or Dell? Does it have a 180W powersupply, and you added an extra HD, DVD Burner, and more powerful video card? This can and will cause problems.

4. You may have a corrupt driver or Windows installation. Try loading a new driver, and if that doesn't work see if reloading windows does.

Still have problems? I guess your just screwed then, either give up on computer gaming and switch brain dead setup consoles. Or maybe get an ATI and spank yourself to sleep with the box.

Re:So...

[dackroyd]

no unfortunately. For speed reasons developers have bypassed the DirectX api to write native nvidia opcodes.

D'oh!

NEOtaku17, look at the dates!

[Anonymous Coward]

[NEOtaku17] This completely debunks the myth that is this Slashdot article.

Look at the date of the article in the link you provided, NEOtaku17. It was September 1, 2003.

Now look at this press release from nvidia
( http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_17342.html):

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

TOKYO and SANTA CLARA, CA--DECEMBER 7, 2004--Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) and NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) today announced that the companies have been collaborating on bringing advanced graphics technology and computer entertainment technology to SCEI's highly anticipated next-generation computer entertainment system. Both companies are jointly developing a custom graphics processing unit (GPU) incorporating NVIDIA's next-generation GeForce(TM) and SCEI's system solutions for next-generation computer entertainment systems featuring the Cell* processor.

This collaboration is made under a broad, multi-year, royalty-bearing agreement. The powerful custom GPU will be the graphics and image processing foundation for a broad range of applications from computer entertainment to broadband applications. The agreement will encompass future Sony digital consumer electronics products.

"In the future, the experience of computer entertainment systems and broadband-ready PCs will be fused together to generate and transfer multi-streams of rich content simultaneously. In this sense, we have found the best way to integrate the state-of-the-art technologies from NVIDIA and SCEI," said Ken Kutaragi, executive deputy president and COO, Sony Corporation, and president and Group CEO, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. "Our collaboration includes not only the chip development but also a variety of graphics development tools and middleware, essential for efficient content creation."

"We are thrilled to partner with Sony Computer Entertainment to build what will certainly be one of the most important computer entertainment and digital media platforms of the twenty-first century," added Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO, NVIDIA. "Over the past two years NVIDIA has worked closely with Sony Computer Entertainment on their next-generation computer entertainment system. In parallel, we have been designing our next-generation GeForce GPU. The combination of the revolutionary Cell processor and NVIDIA's graphics technologies will enable the creation of breathtaking imagery that will surprise and captivate consumers."

The custom GPU will be manufactured at Sony Group's Nagasaki Fab2 as well as OTSS (joint fabrication facility of Toshiba and Sony).

Re:PS3 with NVidia?

[dackroyd]

Your memory card is fuxored - corrupt blue screen - >the memory chips are failing. Been overclocking it have we or bought it second hand from Ebay?

If it's working until it get to a certain temperature you could try slapping some memory heat sinks on the chips or increasing ventilation in your pc, but usually corrupt memory means it's time to get another card...