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http://gc.advancedmn.com/article.php?artid=4846
(read the article there, it is *not* pasted below)
Revolution is apparently going to be released in mid 2006. it will be using
MoSys 1T-SRAM for memory, like the Gamecube.
it seems that Elpida lost out on the Revolution RAM deal.
Elpida is a major provider of RAM. they're one of the RAM providers of
Rambus XDR memory for the upcoming PlayStation3.
MoSys was first selected by Nintendo in the late 1990s to make the RAM for
Dolphin (Gamecube) because of their special low-latency (fast) 1T-SRAM.
It seems Nintendo liked it enough to keep MoSys in on the successor system.
now lets hope that there is *enough* RAM in -Revolution- to make developers
happy.
It was revealed at Nintendo's Spaceworld 2000 show in Japan that the amount
of RAM in Gamecube was cut dramatically, compared to how much it was
originally supposed to have when the system was called Project Dolphin.
http://rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?p=1333687339#post1333687339
"okay, you probably don't know or remember this, but, back in 1999 and upto
August 2000, the Nintendo Dolphin, which ARTX was the central hardware
developer of, was supposed to get 8 MB to 16 MB of embedded 1T-SRAM on that
Flipper GPU -- but by Spaceworld in Aug 2000, that amount was cut to 3.12
MB.
(the main system memory was changed from 32~64 MB of NEC DRAM to 24 MB of
MoSys 1T-SRAM)
Now we learn that MoSys is again back with Nintendo for the Gamecube's
successor, the Revolution. there is almost no doubt that ATI West Coast, the
Silicon Valley design center in Santa Clara, CA is working with MoSys and
NEC to embedded some next generation 1T-SRAM onto Revolution's GPU,
codenamed 'Hollywood'.
how much baby, that is the question! "
(read the article there, it is *not* pasted below)
Revolution is apparently going to be released in mid 2006. it will be using
MoSys 1T-SRAM for memory, like the Gamecube.
it seems that Elpida lost out on the Revolution RAM deal.
Elpida is a major provider of RAM. they're one of the RAM providers of
Rambus XDR memory for the upcoming PlayStation3.
MoSys was first selected by Nintendo in the late 1990s to make the RAM for
Dolphin (Gamecube) because of their special low-latency (fast) 1T-SRAM.
It seems Nintendo liked it enough to keep MoSys in on the successor system.
now lets hope that there is *enough* RAM in -Revolution- to make developers
happy.
It was revealed at Nintendo's Spaceworld 2000 show in Japan that the amount
of RAM in Gamecube was cut dramatically, compared to how much it was
originally supposed to have when the system was called Project Dolphin.
http://rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?p=1333687339#post1333687339
"okay, you probably don't know or remember this, but, back in 1999 and upto
August 2000, the Nintendo Dolphin, which ARTX was the central hardware
developer of, was supposed to get 8 MB to 16 MB of embedded 1T-SRAM on that
Flipper GPU -- but by Spaceworld in Aug 2000, that amount was cut to 3.12
MB.
(the main system memory was changed from 32~64 MB of NEC DRAM to 24 MB of
MoSys 1T-SRAM)
Now we learn that MoSys is again back with Nintendo for the Gamecube's
successor, the Revolution. there is almost no doubt that ATI West Coast, the
Silicon Valley design center in Santa Clara, CA is working with MoSys and
NEC to embedded some next generation 1T-SRAM onto Revolution's GPU,
codenamed 'Hollywood'.
how much baby, that is the question! "
