AMD looking more & more to be providing silicon for the NX

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Darc Requiem said:

sethnintendo said:

Yea, I thought it was a given that AMD was doing the next chips considering they've been working with Nintendo since at least the Gamecube (when it was ATI before being bought).  I would be surprised if they went with Nvidia.  The latest rumors just didn't make sense to me.

The relationship actually predates that. ArtX formed from the team that helped develop the N64. They were bought by ATI which was in turn acquired by AMD. I'm having a hard time buying this Nvidia talk when all their financials in regards SoCs don't show any hints of a deal with anyone in the gaming sector. They cancelled the Shield 2. Their CEO was asked point blank about Tegra and he said nothing about any thing in the gaming space. He talked about Self driving cars, Drones, Embedded applications for buildings and cities. 

 

sethnintendo said:

Darc Requiem said:

The relationship actually predates that. ArtX formed from the team that helped develop the N64. They were bought by ATI which was in turn acquired by AMD.

A nice bit of info.  I just remembered the ATi logo on the GC in the front.  It kind of reminded me of the logos they put on most computers. 

Actually, it began even before, during the N64 era, when Silicon Graphics supplied the chips for the N64, people from Silicon Graphics moved on to found ArtX, whose main purpose was to work on the next Nintendo console chip, they made the flipper for the GameCube, the rest of the story is well known!