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Nvidia to end up in Sony consumer products


From holiday season 2006 toward future


By Fuad Abazovic in the Bosnian wilds: Thursday 10 February 2005, 11:20

MANY INVESTORS and industry people still believe that the Nvidia deal with Sony is all about the Playstation 3. Well, we have to admit that Playstation 3 plays a huge role in this deal but there is more to their relationship than that.
Our informative friends tell us that Nvidia might end up in many Sony consumers’ products. We don't have any clear guidelines about the subject but Nvidia might end up in any High Definition content devices that might need Nvidia features.

The Sony Cell processor will end up embedded in future TVs and our talkative friends believe that Nvidia chips might end up in the same sorts of devices. Nvidia in your TV. What is the world coming too? Where is the end of it?

Sony and Nvidia will collaborate and potentially put chips in set top boxes or even rack mounted servers. Those devices would probably sit next to your next generation TV, if you have room for them in your terraced house or one bedroom flat.

This actually implies that Nvidia will likely be spread around the Sony "run" vision for digital home and it actually means that Nvidia and Sony deal is considerably broader than just the future PlayStation 3. µ

http://www.theinquirer.net

 

[Vark]

Mmmm stock.

 

[gofreak]

Hmm..might this suggest that NVidia's involvement in PS3 is more tightly integrated with Sony (or STI's..) engineering than the "based off our next gen GPU" comments might suggest? Cell is also being "spread around" in such a manner, and it'd probably be difficult to put a cell chip AND a seperate GPU card in a HDTV, as well as other consumer devices, no? People have talked about perhaps NVidia providing the "pixel engines" mentioned in one of the cell-related patents, though it'd be quite a bit different from a next-gen PC GPU if things actually worked out like that (or could such pixel engines be lifted pretty much straight from pixel shader hardware in the NV5x?).

 

[Panajev2001a]

Hmm..might this suggest that NVidia's involvement in PS3 is more tightly integrated with Sony (or STI's..) engineering than the "based off our next gen GPU" comments might suggest? Cell is also being "spread around" in such a manner, and it'd probably be difficult to put a cell chip AND a seperate GPU card in a HDTV, as well as other consumer devices, no? People have talked about perhaps NVidia providing the "pixel engines" mentioned in one of the cell-related patents, though it'd be quite a bit different from a next-gen PC GPU if things actually worked out like that (or could such pixel engines be lifted pretty much straight from pixel shader hardware in the NV5x?).

A SoC can contain different "once separated cores" that get integrated on the same chip. PSP's GPU is integrated with the MIPS CPU, but it is not based on a MIPS processor .

It would not be dificult to put two chips in an HDTV, but it'd be preferrable to put a single chip like the WEGA Engine or the EE+GS@90 nm to make two examples.

 

[Andrew2]

This was in the original PR when it was revealed that Nvidia was collaborating with SCEI on the GPU. The deal didn't just end with the PS3,but future Sony electronics products. In the end,Nvidia looks to really benefit in the long-run as theres a royalty opportunty attatched to the GPU development.

 

[bud]

Should I buy stocks in Nvidia, now?

 

[Vark]

Nah, you should have bought stock a few weeks ago, its on the rise

 

[Andrew2]

If you ask me,this is a huge win for Nvidia as its the first thier products would venture out of the PC market(workstation and consumer computer systems). With the fact Nvidia stands to gain something from the royalties per product sold,this is enough to make their shareholders mightly happy.

 

[pcostabel]

Am I missing something? Why would an HDTV need A GPU?

 

[xexex]

more processing power for PS3? :lol

 

[OmniGamer]

Am I missing something? Why would an HDTV need A GPU?

Because it needs, MORE POWER, Rrr Rrr Rrr Rrr Rrr