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NVIDIA hiring eDRAM engineers - for Sony's PSP2?
NVIDIA hiring eDRAM engineers - for Sony's PSP2? 15-Jan-2007, 10:21.03 Reporter : Uttar A quick look at NVIDIA's website will reveal that they are currently looking for eDRAM engineers. It's worth noting that they have never shipped any such design, and it seems extremely unlikely to us that anyone in the industry is planning to use eDRAM on products aimed at the PC market. As such, this could be a further confirmation that NVIDIA has the contract for Sony's PSP2 handheld. Indeed, the original PSP has plenty of eDRAM (2MB for the GPU alone), and the PS2 GPU has its fair share of it too. These chips are manufactured in Sony's own fabs, which thus seem rather well tuned for it. It has already looked extremely likely for a while that NVIDIA would get the contract, as past financial conference calls have had Jen-Hsun Huang say that he believes the original PSP's graphics chip will be the last one developped in-house for any console or CE device. That wouldn't theorically exclude AMD from the contract though, of course - and while it's likely it has been decided by now who won the contract, it's also impossible to be sure. Still, this eDRAM job offer is a further confirmation of NVIDIA's likely contract with Sony on this project, which you would expect to see shipping around 2009, given the traditional industry cycles. Assuming a royalty-based model, likely per-unit revenue would be between 3 and 5 dollars, in addition to one-time payments. That's not a lot of money for either NVIDIA or AMD nowadays, but it remains financially appealing because of the 100% margins associated with the deal.[/quote] http://beyond3d.com/#news37668]http:...com/#news37668 ___________________________________ forgetting PSP2 for a moment (which is NOT the upcoming redesigned PSP due out 2007-2008),,, I'm thinking about PS4, and how badly it WILL NEED a GPU with EDRAM. One of the biggest mistakes of PS3 was not having EDRAM, and because of it, Xbox 360 beats the PS3 in graphics rendering / displaying graphics on screen. and no matter how powerful the CELL is or isnt, it can't help the RSX GPU. Sony & Nvidia better come up with a fantasticly powerful GPU for PS4, otherwise there will be little point in bothering PS4, even less so than PS3. Sony better go back to EDRAM in PS4, or they are finished performance wise. |
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NVIDIA hiring eDRAM engineers - for Sony's PSP2?
AirRaid wrote: NVIDIA hiring eDRAM engineers - for Sony's PSP2? [snip] I'd guess more likely for phones and portable players - note the acquisition of PortalPlayer, and the "4800" phone chip announced on the nVidia website. |
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