Microsoft to cut Nvidia from X-Box 2

Via hungry... ATI in running...
By Eva Glass, 22/02/2002 09:40:27 BST


THOSE IN THE KNOW have seen Microsoft's final reference platform for the X-Box 2 and say that the plan appears to be to cut Nvidia out of the new equation.
That has driven Via to heights of unparalleled ecstasy because the plucky little company now reckons it could get the whole deal - graphics chipset and CPU.

It would have to offer Microsoft a fantastic deal to swing that particular miracle off, but Via is in the business of swinging such fantastic deals, my best friends at Vole Centrale tell me.

Y'know what the problem is? Nvidia charges Microsoft just a little bit too much for its technology and Microsoft wants to lose just that little bit less on each X-Box it sells. More. While Via reckons it could scoop the opposition and get the graphics chipset and the CPU business, it has one major competitor in the final running and that happens to be little Canadian company ATI.

My boy said: "That would really make Nvidia gnash its teeth - imagine the schadenfreude at ATI if it swept away with the chipset for the X-Box 2 design."

It's always possible that Nvidia might cut its prices sufficiently to make it worth Microsoft's while. But unlikely, says the lad.

One must never forget that La Intella can always rush in at the last minute... µ

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I sure hope so.

Andrej, ti dam prav kar se tiče kompatibilnosti za nazaj, ampak od kdaj je MS to mar? Sam niti trznil ne bi, če bi MS izdal X-BOX2, na katerem ne bi tekle igre iz enke.

Še mal pa bo microsoft not dal tiskarno denarja :D

Kdo pa pravi, da X-boxi 2 z recimo Atijevimi karticami ne bi bili kompatibilni za nazaj?

TheJack: zato ker XBOX ni PC in ni gonilnikov v smislu kot na PC-ju. Saj bi lahko ATI sistem bil kompatibilen, ampak potem bi ziher modli ATI design malo spremenit in potem nebi mogo izkoristit celotnega ATI-ja...

Chucki vzem svojga Pro-ja in si ga zatlač v rit.>:D