PowerVR high-end ready.
- Thread starter Roger Kohli
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Ingenu said:
The problem here is that they certainly could produce boards... if they produced a chip to use first!
The PCX chips were produced in conjunction with NEC, I believe. Then the Kyro generation were produced in conjunction with SGT. The problem now is that we don't know of any other company working with ImgTech to produce chips for the PC. We know Sega have licensed the tech to be used in the Arcade but this doesn't help the PC space.
I can only think that ImgTech are quite happy with their IP licensing business and don't feel the urge to risk the extra expenditure to 'go it alone' and produce a chip entirely by themselves.
Well if someone made the chips and someone else made the boards... Who would write the drivers? As i understand, driver writing nowadays requires huge team of engineers. If I'm not completely wrong, i would assume nv and Ati have more software engineers than hardware engineers, right?
So would or would not that be big difference between ip company and a fabless semiconductor company?
I'm really asking since im not that familiar with history of kyro and pcx boards drivers. I actually don't know who released them, maybe it was powervr? Not sure. please enlighten me. Is it the ip sales company, the chip producer or board vendor who would write drivers for series 5? Or would there be some reference driver and then different board specific drivers?
So would or would not that be big difference between ip company and a fabless semiconductor company?
I'm really asking since im not that familiar with history of kyro and pcx boards drivers. I actually don't know who released them, maybe it was powervr? Not sure. please enlighten me. Is it the ip sales company, the chip producer or board vendor who would write drivers for series 5? Or would there be some reference driver and then different board specific drivers?
