nVidia loses XBox-2 contract to ATi

[NV55]

nVidia is not going to make the graphics processor for XBox 2.

Apparently ATi is.


http://news.com.com/2100-1043_3-5063661.html?tag=fd_top
http://www.gamers.com/news/1443671
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030814/145156_1.html

[chrisv]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 22:10:27 GMT, "Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@comcast.net>
wrote:
Let em have it, I'm sure while they made tons of money at it Nvidia got alot of headaches from Microsoft

Well, I'm sure that after the honeymoon was over, M$ tried to screw
them in the wrong hole, like they do all their "partners".

[John Russell]

"Bill" <not@home.com> wrote in message
news:Fh1%a.72$Q_.51@fe03.atl2.webusenet.com... "Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@comcast.net> wrote in message news:mNT_a.108857$cF.31018@rwcrnsc53... Let em have it, I'm sure while they made tons of money at it Nvidia got
a lot of headaches from Microsoft Maybe its the other way around?:-)

Microsoft want want is effectively a PC at the price of a gamestation. To
achieve this they expect the hardware supplier to subsedise the hardware and
recieve a porportion of the license game makers pay microsoft. I'm sure this
financial arrangement caused all kinds of headaches.

[Crash7]

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 12:53:25 GMT, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid>
wrote:
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 22:10:27 GMT, "Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@comcast.net>wrote:Let em have it, I'm sure while they made tons of money at it Nvidia got alot of headaches from MicrosoftWell, I'm sure that after the honeymoon was over, M$ tried to screwthem in the wrong hole, like they do all their "partners".

The impression I got was that there was considerable attempted
screwing by both parties. :) Microsoft by trying to arbitrate a
lower price for the chips, and Nvidia by trying to use their influence
to steer DX9 towards their hardware.


Crash7
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[Mark Leuck]

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a lot of headaches from Microsoft Maybe its the other way around?:-)

I doubt it, look at the history of companies working with Microsoft and you
find much the same thing

[jack]

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[ELVIS2000]

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 13:06:08 GMT, Darthy
<DarthGates@microsoftsucksass.com> wrote:
The XBox2 may not be 100% compatible... especially if the games hitthe hardware - which *IS* the point of a console.

Hrum? All XBox games are DirectX. They will be as compatible as
games are now on Nvidia and ATI hardware on PCs.

jw

[juha]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 03:19:37 GMT, ELVIS2000 <elvis2000@nospam.com>
wrote:
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 13:06:08 GMT, Darthy<DarthGates@microsoftsucksass.com> wrote:The XBox2 may not be 100% compatible... especially if the games hitthe hardware - which *IS* the point of a console.Hrum? All XBox games are DirectX. They will be as compatible asgames are now on Nvidia and ATI hardware on PCs.

N-O no. Many XBox games use advanced features on the custom NVidia
chip that don't necessarily exist on ATI.

Even on PC it is quite possible to make Direct3D games which work
great on one 3D card and poorly or not at all on another, and I bet in
XBox games this is even more pronounced. So DirectX is not the answer
to cancer.

[Yousuf Khan]

"chrisv" <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
news:dh74kvk0m4r1f3n9bk1qvp54offu7jnj3a@4ax.com... On 18 Aug 2003 11:15:56 -0700, bbbl67@yahoo.com (Yousuf Khan) wrote:The original Xbox was supposed to use anAthlon or Duron processor to power it rather than a P3; Intel stolethe contract out from under AMD at the last moment, much to AMD'seventual joy. Explain this "joy" statement, please.

They didn't have to sell processors for a couple of bucks each to Microsoft
(literally).

Yousuf Khan

[Tony Hill]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 03:19:37 GMT, ELVIS2000 <elvis2000@nospam.com>
wrote:On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 13:06:08 GMT, Darthy<DarthGates@microsoftsucksass.com> wrote:The XBox2 may not be 100% compatible... especially if the games hitthe hardware - which *IS* the point of a console.Hrum? All XBox games are DirectX. They will be as compatible asgames are now on Nvidia and ATI hardware on PCs.

They are DirectX to a degree, but you can not, for example, take an
XBox game and run it on a PC without porting it. The reason being
that the XBox allows some direct hardware access for performance
reasons. Since every single XBox out there has essentially identical
hardware, they can do this, while on a PC this is not possible.

However, the next generation of XBox will be different. The DirectX
stuff will be fine, but the direct hardware access stuff could be
problematic. Microsoft will probably try to accommodate this in
software, and likely they will be successful for 99%+ of all games,
but there may be the odd XBox game that just won't play on the XBox2.

-------------
Tony Hill
hilla <underscore> 20 <at> yahoo <dot> ca

[chrisv]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 02:39:10 GMT, "Yousuf Khan"
<bbbl67.spam@yahoo.com.nospam> wrote:
"chrisv" <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote in messagenews:dh74kvk0m4r1f3n9bk1qvp54offu7jnj3a@4ax.com... On 18 Aug 2003 11:15:56 -0700, bbbl67@yahoo.com (Yousuf Khan) wrote:The original Xbox was supposed to use anAthlon or Duron processor to power it rather than a P3; Intel stolethe contract out from under AMD at the last moment, much to AMD'seventual joy. Explain this "joy" statement, please.They didn't have to sell processors for a couple of bucks each to Microsoft(literally).

You have factual information on the price that Intel is getting from
M$ for the CPU's (PIII-733's, IIRC)?

[Tony Hill]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:44:19 GMT, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid>
wrote:On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 02:39:10 GMT, "Yousuf Khan"<bbbl67.spam@yahoo.com.nospam> wrote:They didn't have to sell processors for a couple of bucks each to Microsoft(literally).You have factual information on the price that Intel is getting fromM$ for the CPU's (PIII-733's, IIRC)?

No factual information, but I would doubt that it's much over
$20/chip, if even that. Fortunately for Intel, the chips used are a
rather low cost chip (it's a Celeron processor (PIII core with 128KB
of L2) running on a 133MHz bus speed), but I still don't expect that
Intel is making much money off the sale of these chips.

-------------
Tony Hill
hilla <underscore> 20 <at> yahoo <dot> ca

[Keith R. Williams]

In article <3f43b8d2.3573888@news.verizon.net>,
john.dsl@verizon.net says... On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:44:19 GMT, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 02:39:10 GMT, "Yousuf Khan"<bbbl67.spam@yahoo.com.nospam> wrote:"chrisv" <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote in messagenews:dh74kvk0m4r1f3n9bk1qvp54offu7jnj3a@4ax.com...> On 18 Aug 2003 11:15:56 -0700, bbbl67@yahoo.com (Yousuf Khan) wrote:>> >The original Xbox was supposed to use an> >Athlon or Duron processor to power it rather than a P3; Intel stole> >the contract out from under AMD at the last moment, much to AMD's> >eventual joy.>> Explain this "joy" statement, please.They didn't have to sell processors for a couple of bucks each to Microsoft(literally).You have factual information on the price that Intel is getting fromM$ for the CPU's (PIII-733's, IIRC)? Hopefully, Intel's stock of P3-733 won't run out before Xbox 2, since both the part and the process are now obsolete.

I don't see how this is a problem. Intel still makes far more
"obsolete" products. Last I checked they still made '186/8
processors. The embedded market tends to lag several processes
behind. ...and there is money there.

--
Keith

[chrisv]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 22:37:02 -0400, Keith R. Williams
<krw@attglobal.net> wrote:
Hopefully, Intel's stock of P3-733 won't run out before Xbox 2, since both the part and the process are now obsolete.I don't see how this is a problem. Intel still makes far more"obsolete" products. Last I checked they still made '186/8processors. The embedded market tends to lag several processesbehind. ...and there is money there.

Gotta do something with those old machines... 8)

[Keith R. Williams]

In article <eqg9kv4ai0ih6h4a9bknl64kcs5a5ttou3@4ax.com>,
chrisv@nospam.invalid says... On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 22:37:02 -0400, Keith R. Williams <krw@attglobal.net> wrote: Hopefully, Intel's stock of P3-733 won't run out before Xbox 2, since both the part and the process are now obsolete.I don't see how this is a problem. Intel still makes far more"obsolete" products. Last I checked they still made '186/8processors. The embedded market tends to lag several processesbehind. ...and there is money there. Gotta do something with those old machines... 8)

Sure. The point is that the P3-733 isn't as antique as was
pretended. Nor is M$ likely to run out of processors for it's
crappy X-box. ;-)

If there is a dime to be made the process will go on. Embedded
processors live until there are no longer any customers. The
8051 is still one of the largest selling processors, and has been
for over 20 years, despite the fact that it's the Bizaro of
processors.

--
Keith

[7oast3dProfessor]

Actually I was pretty sure those were Celeron 733's. As far as the contract
it really didnt matter, nVidia wasnt making a ton of money on the deal and
they can now put those resources back into the PC market where they belong.
"chrisv" <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
news:eqg9kv4ai0ih6h4a9bknl64kcs5a5ttou3@4ax.com... On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 22:37:02 -0400, Keith R. Williams <krw@attglobal.net> wrote: Hopefully, Intel's stock of P3-733 won't run out before Xbox 2, since both the part and the process are now obsolete.I don't see how this is a problem. Intel still makes far more"obsolete" products. Last I checked they still made '186/8processors. The embedded market tends to lag several processesbehind. ...and there is money there. Gotta do something with those old machines... 8)

[Yousuf Khan]

"Tony Hill" <hilla_nospam_20@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
news:f12952491d7d2d2483620a77839c1598@news.1usenet.com... They are DirectX to a degree, but you can not, for example, take an XBox game and run it on a PC without porting it. The reason being that the XBox allows some direct hardware access for performance reasons. Since every single XBox out there has essentially identical hardware, they can do this, while on a PC this is not possible.

Do you know for a fact that Xbox games are directly accessing the hardware?
From what I know about it, the OS on Xbox is a variant of Windows 2000, so
it has a Hardware Abstraction Layer protecting all direct hardware access
channels. Even the DirectX API goes through HAL (albeit as a peer of HAL,
since they are both parts of the OS).

Yousuf Khan

[7oast3dProfessor]

Actually yes the Operating System on the Microsoft XBox is a stripped down
version of Windows 2000.
"Tony Hill" <hilla_nospam_20@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
news:68abdd6bf8fb5258f3150fc232d76c58@news.1usenet.com... On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 13:53:38 GMT, "Yousuf Khan" <bbbl67.spam@yahoo.com.nospam> wrote:"Tony Hill" <hilla_nospam_20@yahoo.ca> wrote in messagenews:f12952491d7d2d2483620a77839c1598@news.1usenet.com... They are DirectX to a degree, but you can not, for example, take an XBox game and run it on a PC without porting it. The reason being that the XBox allows some direct hardware access for performance reasons. Since every single XBox out there has essentially identical hardware, they can do this, while on a PC this is not possible.Do you know for a fact that Xbox games are directly accessing the
hardware?From what I know about it, the OS on Xbox is a variant of Windows 2000,
soit has a Hardware Abstraction Layer protecting all direct hardware accesschannels. Even the DirectX API goes through HAL (albeit as a peer of HAL,since they are both parts of the OS). I've been told directly by XBox developers that you can definitely get some direct access to hardware if you so desire. Besides, it should be obvious that there is some incompatibility here. If it were straight DirectX you could run XBox games on a PC (and vice versa) without recompiling, which is definitely NOT the case. Based on DirectX and Win2K, yes, but it is NOT the same DirectX and Win2K that we use on PCs because it was designed for consoles, and one trick with consoles is allowing a certain degree of direct hardware access. ------------- Tony Hill hilla <underscore> 20 <at> yahoo <dot> ca

[wogston]

> Do you know for a fact that Xbox games are directly accessing the
hardware?

I don't know if he does, but I do.

[Blade]

On 14 Aug 2003 14:37:39 -0700, nvidianv55@mail.com (NV55) wrote:
nVidia is not going to make the graphics processor for XBox 2.Apparently ATi is.http://news.com.com/2100-1043_3-5063661.html?tag=fd_tophttp://www.gamers.com/news/1443671http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030814/145156_1.html

[Tom]

"Blade" <Blade@blade.com> wrote in message
news:eaakmvccdq8c8jmobkdbjfq835mfsbmf58@4ax.com... On 14 Aug 2003 14:37:39 -0700, nvidianv55@mail.com (NV55) wrote:nVidia is not going to make the graphics processor for XBox 2.Apparently ATi is.http://news.com.com/2100-1043_3-5063661.html?tag=fd_tophttp://www.gamers.com/news/1443671http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030814/145156_1.html

Wow - there's a big contract lost.

Have xbox sales reached double digits yet ? :P

[Pug Fugley2]

"Tom" <hhh@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:SWpab.61265$DZ.54836@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com... "Blade" <Blade@blade.com> wrote in message news:eaakmvccdq8c8jmobkdbjfq835mfsbmf58@4ax.com... On 14 Aug 2003 14:37:39 -0700, nvidianv55@mail.com (NV55) wrote:nVidia is not going to make the graphics processor for XBox 2.Apparently ATi is.http://news.com.com/2100-1043_3-5063661.html?tag=fd_tophttp://www.gamers.com/news/1443671http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030814/145156_1.html Wow - there's a big contract lost. Have xbox sales reached double digits yet ? :P

Well, it's kicking the crap out of the Gamecube, and it's taking a chunk of
PS2's market every day. Considering the PS2 had a 1 year head start (7 year
if you count the fact that PS2 plays PS1 games) and that's pretty damn
impressive. The Xbox is a FAR better machine.

[Tom]

Have xbox sales reached double digits yet ? :P Well, it's kicking the crap out of the Gamecube, and it's taking a chunk
of PS2's market every day. Considering the PS2 had a 1 year head start (7
year if you count the fact that PS2 plays PS1 games) and that's pretty damn impressive. The Xbox is a FAR better machine.

Kicking the crap out of the gamecube in North America, perhaps - but last
time I checked they were both going to hit about 10 million sales worldwide,
and the gamecube had a slight lead. To put this in perspective even the
dreamcast almost sold that many. The PS2 is around 60 million worldwide so
it wouldn't appear as though the xbox *or* gamecube is taking much of a
chunk out of sales.

That being said, I'm not a PS2 fan as it has crappy hardware and drove my
poor dreamcast into the ground..


Tom

[John Lewis]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 00:14:25 GMT, "Pug Fugley2" <nosir@not.com> wrote:
"Tom" <hhh@hotmail.com> wrote in messagenews:SWpab.61265$DZ.54836@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com... "Blade" <Blade@blade.com> wrote in message news:eaakmvccdq8c8jmobkdbjfq835mfsbmf58@4ax.com... On 14 Aug 2003 14:37:39 -0700, nvidianv55@mail.com (NV55) wrote: >nVidia is not going to make the graphics processor for XBox 2. > >Apparently ATi is. > > >http://news.com.com/2100-1043_3-5063661.html?tag=fd_top >http://www.gamers.com/news/1443671 >http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030814/145156_1.html Wow - there's a big contract lost. Have xbox sales reached double digits yet ? :PWell, it's kicking the crap out of the Gamecube, and it's taking a chunk ofPS2's market every day. Considering the PS2 had a 1 year head start (7 yearif you count the fact that PS2 plays PS1 games) and that's pretty damnimpressive. The Xbox is a FAR better machine.


I'd better buy some nVidia stock tomorrow. Doesn't the Xbox use
nVidia chips ?

John Lewis

[chrisv]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 00:14:25 GMT, "Pug Fugley2" <nosir@not.com> wrote:
The Xbox is a FAR better machine.

Thrill. It's being subsidized by the Evil Empire, using their
monopoly money to buy-into yet more markets.



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