Nokia to reveal Ngage 2 at E3!

[TEXAN]

There have been rumours of an ngage successor using an OMAP 2420 since the beginning of last year.

Rumors from who?

PowerVR MBX gains OpenGL ES Linux support
By Tony Smith
Published Thursday 18th November 2004 11:24 GMT
Imagination Technologies has developed drivers for its PowerVR MBX mobile 3D graphics chip that enable OpenGL ES support on devices running Linux, the company said this week.

It also said the chip will now host HI Corp's mobile phone-oriented 3D rendering engine, Mascot Capsule Engine Micro3D Edition 4.

Imagination is less well-known than the likes of Nvidia and ATI, but it's been pursuing 3D graphics acceleration for at least as long as they have. Its PowerVR tile-based rendering technology was originally pitched at the desktop, even found its way into Sega's Dreamcast console, but of late the company has been focusing on the mobile arena, offering its technology to chip makers under licence, ARM-fashion. Indeed, ARM is able to sub-license PowerVR MBX on Imagination's behalf.

The PowerVR MBX core has been licensed by Intel, Philips, Samsung, Sunplus and Texas Instruments, and shipped as Intel's PXA 2700G - the graphics co-processor partner to its XScale PXA270 CPUs - inside TI's OMAP 2410 and 2420 chips, and similarly integrated into Renesas' SuperH processors.

The TI chip is expected to be be used in Nokia's N-Gage 2, while Dell's Axim x50v high-end wireless PocketPC uses the Intel part.

The core provides desktop-level graphics functionality, Imagination said, including skinning, full-screen anti-aliasing, support for 32-bit precision internally, transform and lighting, Dot3 per-pixel lighting, curved surface support, and texture compression. ®

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/18/imagination_powervr_opengl/

 

[jarrod]

Ever wondered why SS's PSP and NDS release schedules are so empty?

They're not that empty... in fact both already compare favorably to what Sega's done for N-Gage in it's first 2 years (which was mostly just GBA ports* anyway).

N-Gage
01 Alien Front
02 Pocket Kingdom: Own the World
03 Puyo Pop*
04 Sega Rally Championship*
05 Sonic N*
06 Super Monkey Ball*
07 Virtua Cop
08 Virtua Tennis: Sega Professional Tennis*

Nintendo DS
01 Bleach
02 Feel the Magic XY-XX
03 Jissen Pachislot Hisshouhou DS! Fist of the Northstar
04 Puyo Pop Fever
05 Sonic DS

06 tba project (multiplayer sports)
07 tba project (TV character action)

PSP
01 Jissen Pachislot Hisshouhou! Fist of the Northstar
02 Project S
03 Puyo Puyo Fever
04 World Championship Snooker 2005

05 tba project (communication RPG)
06 tba project (digital pet)
07 tba project (graphic adventure)
08 tba project (multiplayer sports)


...none compare to the massive amount of Sega GBA games though...


Game Boy Advance
01 Advance Guardian Heroes
02 Altered Beast: Guardians of the Realm
03 Astro Boy: Omega Factor
04 Baseball Advance
05 Beetle Mushiking: Road to the Greatest Champion
06 Bleach
07 Chu-Chu Rocket!
08 Columns Crown
09 Comix Zone
10 Crazy Taxi: Catch a Ride
11 Jet Grind Radio
12 J-League Pro Soccer Club wo Tsukurou! Advance
13 Lilliput Oukoku: Lillimoni to Isshou-puni!
14 Phantasy Star Collection
15 Pro Yakyuu Team o Tsukurou! Advance
16 Puyo Pop
17 Puyo Puyo Fever
18 Revenge of Shinobi
19 Sega Arcade Gallery
20 Sega Rally Championship
21 Sega Smash Pack
22 Shining Force: Resurrection of the Dark Dragon
23 Shining Soul
24 Shining Soul II
25 Sonic Advance
26 Sonic Advance 2
27 Sonic Advance 3
28 Sonic Battle
29 Sonic Pinball Party
30 Space Channel 5: Ulala's Cosmic Attack
31 The Pinball of the Dead
32 Virtua Tennis: Sega Professional Tennis


...maybe Sega really just waiting for the next GB?

 

[Lazy8s]

PowerVR is working with Texas Instruments on a specific game development environment for the OMAP 2 platform. An announcement of a game phone -- like the next N-Gage -- seems imminent.

 

[TEXAN]

Man I can't wait to play Crazy Taxi whilst on the bus.

 

[TEXAN]

http://www.pdatrends.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1405

http://www.pdatrends.com/showthread.php?t=3649

I saw this demo running at 3GSM in France 2 weeks ago, so as soon as it was available for download I put it onto my Axim X50v to see if they had cheated at the show. They had no, it's real, and is totally outrageous, massively better than anything I have seen to date on a Gizmondo, and close to what the PSP can do, if not better - it's certainly higher resolution than the PSP, 640x480 vs. 480x272. I was told they wrote and modelled this thing in just 3 weeks!

Deeply awesome - somebody needs to make a handheld gaming unit out of this Intel chipset, it's killer.

The MBX Lite powering this demo was only running at 54 Mhz.

 

[TEXAN]

http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2005/Mar/1125630.htm

[March 15, 2005]

Texas Instruments and Imagination Technologies Create Gaming and Graphics Ecosystem Leveraging TI's OMAP(TM) 2 'All in One Mobile Entertainment' Platform

NEW ORLEANS and DALLAS, March 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) and Imagination Technologies (Imagination) today announced a collaboration to develop a targeted ecosystem leveraging the power of TI's OMAP(TM) 2 platform and Imagination's best-in- class PowerVR(R) MBX(R) graphics accelerator. The collaboration is enabling a matrix of games and graphics developers, tools and mobile content providers and systems integrators to offer an extensive portfolio of optimized content, tools and middleware to address the growing 3D graphics hardware accelerated mobile phone marketplace. TI and Imagination will be demonstrating PowerVR Racer on a TI OMAP2420 development platform at CTIA Wireless in New Orleans, March 14 - 16.

Together, TI and Imagination are working with third parties to optimize tool chains, graphics stacks and content for mobile phones. Developers can extract new levels of performance and game-play experience for 3D games and graphics by leveraging the combination of TI's leading OMAP platform and Imagination's PowerVR MBX 3D graphics accelerator.

Says David McBrien, VP business development, Imagination Technologies: "This collaboration enables stakeholders in the 3D graphics value chain to access the state of the art graphics capabilities of PowerVR MBX and the OMAP 2 architecture and leverage experience from leaders across the mobile gaming ecosystem."

Says Paul Werp, worldwide director of marketing for TI's OMAP Platform: "TI is already working together with Imagination to enable a range of world class middleware and tools companies to deliver the best 3D gaming and graphics content available in a timely manner in formats that OEMs and operators will find compelling."

Previously, the quality of mobile games has been limited by the processing capacity of the mobile phone platform. TI and Imagination are addressing this limitation by combining the horsepower of Imagination's leading embedded PowerVR MBX 3D engine, which includes the fully programmable VGP vertex processor, with TI's OMAP 2 platform, which includes an ARM1136 with a dedicated vector floating point unit, a C55x(TM) Digital Signal Processor for audio and speech, and a full imaging and video processor. With a graphics core capable of more than 2.5m triangles per second and with advanced features such as Dot3 bump mapping, PVR-TC texture compression and full screen anti- aliasing, a PowerVR MBX-enabled OMAP 2 platform is capable of a console- quality experience. The TI and Imagination collaboration advances mobile gaming, provides the game developer community with a vast array of capabilities and expands the range of possibilities for the entertainment community.

This Imagination and TI collaboration enhances the mobile entertainment wireless ecosystem by providing the following advantages:

* For game developers, a range of premier tools and middleware partners
that allow game developers to extract maximum performance and
features.
* For handset manufacturers, a range of partners who can offer
integration of games, games bundles, and developer community support.
* For mobile operators, optimized content and extended gaming
capabilities, which offer additional revenue opportunities.
* For mobile content owners, access to a platform on which users can
have the kind of game experience to which they have become accustomed
on gaming consoles, without compromising the mobile content owners'
brand quality.

Companies such as Fathammer, HI Corporation, Hybrid Graphics, Ideaworks3D and Superscape are already working with TI and Imagination on middleware, gaming technology and games bundles for mobile handsets.

Availability

Applications developers can begin working on the PowerVR MBX-enabled OMAP 2 platform by going to the Imagination website at http://www.pvrdev.com/Pub/MBX/ and downloading a full PC-based SDK. This link is also available through the TI website at http://www.ti.com/omapgaming , which also provides a list of companies who are supporting the kick off of this program.

Texas Instruments - Making Wireless
TI is the leading manufacturer of wireless semiconductors, delivering the heart of today's wireless technology and building solutions for tomorrow. TI provides a breadth of silicon and software and 15 years of wireless systems expertise that spans handsets and base stations for all communications standards, wireless LAN, Bluetooth, GPS, Digital TV and Ultra Wideband. TI offers custom to turn-key solutions, including complete chipsets and reference designs, OMAP(TM) application processors, as well as core digital signal processor and analog technologies built on advanced semiconductor processes. Please visit http://www.ti.com/wirelesspressroom for additional information.

About Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Incorporated provides innovative DSP and analog technologies to meet our customers' real world signal processing requirements. In addition to Semiconductor, the company's businesses include Sensors & Controls, and Educational & Productivity Solutions. TI is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and has manufacturing, design or sales operations in more than 25 countries.
Texas Instruments is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TXN. More information is located on the World Wide Web at http://www.ti.com/ .

About Imagination Technologies
Imagination Technologies Group plc -- a leader in SoC IP -- develops, licenses and supplies market-leading graphics, video and display cores, real- time multi-threaded DSP/RISC processors, controllers, and communication and broadcast technologies for the mobile, consumer, automotive and PC markets. It supplies licensable IP (Intellectual Property) supported by advanced development tools to leading semiconductor and consumer electronics companies worldwide. Imagination Technologies Group plc has its corporate headquarters in the United Kingdom and is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange . See: http://www.imgtec.com/ .

Trademarks
OMAP and C55x are trademarks of Texas Instruments. PowerVR(R) and MBX(R) are registered trademarks of Imagination Technologies. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

 

[Simon F]

Man I can't wait to play Crazy Taxi whilst on the bus.

Just as long as you don't try playing Crazy Taxi with the bus!

 

[Lazy8s]

Specifications for the gaming platform:
OMAP Full Compatibility
90-nm CMOS System-on-a-Chip OMAP2420

330-MHz Central Core with Floating Point Unit ARM1136JS-F

220-MHz Digital Signal Processor for Audio TMS320C55x

Video Playback and Image Display Imaging Video Accelerator
...... VGA 30-fps Encode/Decode Full-Motion Video

2D/3D Graphics Accelerator with SIMD Co-Processor MBX with VGP
...... 32-Bit Blending and Depth Test Precision Independent from Buffer Depth
...... Supersampling Full-Screen Anti-Aliasing Standard
...... DOT3 Per-Pixel Lighting Support
...... Anisotropic Texture Filtering Support
...... Vertex Shader 1.1 Programmability with Skinning
...... Curved Surface Processing with Fractional Tesselation and Support for Differing Levels-of-Detail on Neighboring Patch Edges
...... Over 2.5M-tri/sec

The Next Nokia

 

[TEXAN]

The 90nm MBX inside the 2420 runs at 200Mhz right?

 

[Lazy8s]

That's the rumor.

Texas Instruments is also taking the OMAP 2 platform to the price/battery sensitive end of the mobile market with new product beyond the OMAP2410 and 2420, using MBX-Lite this time. Perhaps they can get into several of the smaller phones and set up a gaming platform there, too, which could share some game development with its big brother on N-Gage's successor. It might become one of the first embedded gaming platforms to successfully span multiple manufacturers' consoles, something 3DO, Saturn, Nuon, and even Genesis/SEGA CD all tried.

 

[Farid]

Lighting Support
...... Anisotropic Texture Filtering Support
...... Vertex Shader 1.1 Programmability with Skinning
...... Curved

You (or the person who wrote that) seem to have a spyware, Lazy8s.
Or maybe it's me.

 

[Simon F]

<a target="_blank" href="http://searchmiracle.com/text/search.php?qq=Lighting">Lighting</a> Support
...... Anisotropic Texture Filtering Support
...... Vertex Shader 1.1 Programmability with Skinning
...... <a target="_blank" href="http://searchmiracle.com/text/search.php?qq=curve">Curve</a>d

You (or the person who wrote that) seem to have a spyware, Lazy8s.
Or maybe it's me.

If you mean "those links take you to a load of junk" then yes there's something wrong somewhere!!!

Hang on! I've never seen actual HTML in a post before. I thought we were limited to BBCode!!!!

 

[London Geezer]

I get normal text, must be something wrong with Vysez

 

[darkblu]

simon and me too

 

[London Geezer]

simon and me too

Spooky. I'm using... IE... (hey i'm at work, got no choice)

 

[Farid]

I get normal text, must be something wrong with Vysez

Simon, darkblu and me think that something is wrong with YOU, LB!
...Well, at least, more wrong than usual...

Seriously you must have some sort of goodpcware or something.
Or maybe you just have the HTML disabled in your settings?

Hang on! I've never seen actual HTML in a post before. I thought we were limited to BBCode!!!!

Options
HTML is ON
BBCode is ON
Smilies are ON

Forget the yesterday limits, Simon, today is the first day of a new age...
The age of the HTML enriched posts, featuring classics such as the glowing text, the pop-up box, and the unforgettable scroller!

 

[hey69]

we see them because lazy posted /copypasted it that way.
so HE is THE GUILTY ONE!


...rrrrrrrrrrREVENGE!

 

[London Geezer]

What i see is that there is a link on the word "Lighting", then normal, then another link on the word "Curved" althought Lazy must have done the link wrong cause only "Curve" is underlined, not the "d".

I don't see all the mubo jumbo you guys get

 

[Farid]

What i see is that there is a link on the word "Lighting", then normal, then another link on the word "Curved" althought Lazy must have done the link wrong cause only "Curve" is underlined, not the "d".

I don't see all the mubo jumbo you guys get

That's what we see too, it's due to a) a Spyware/adware on the machine of the one who did the original post (lazy8s or someone else if he copy pasted it)
or b) to some sort of automatic ad system on the site where Lazy8s copy/paste this info.

 

[hey69]

like I said, he HE is THE GUILTY ONE ..
can somebody ban him for bringing spam here