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[zurich]

Who are PowerVR's current customers? Just Sega? (NAOMI) Where on earth do they get their operating funds if no one's licensing?

 

[PC-Engine]

Who are PowerVR's current customers? Just Sega? (NAOMI) Where on earth do they get their operating funds if no one's licensing?

Intel, Hitachi, Sharp, Texas Instruments, to name a few. We'll just have to wait for the products using MBX which are being designed as we speak. Also recently Ericsson has said they will be switching to PowerVR's MBX for their cellphones.

 

[zurich]

Who are PowerVR's current customers? Just Sega? (NAOMI) Where on earth do they get their operating funds if no one's licensing?

Intel, Hitachi, Sharp, Texas Instruments, to name a few. We'll just have to wait for the products using MBX which are being designed as we speak.

In what products? Like I said, the only current PVR product I know of is NAOMI..

 

[PC-Engine]

Mobile products using MBX are being designed as we speak.

Goto www.powervr.com if you need more info.

 

[chaphack]

http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-q=mbx&sp-a=sp010a7b02

Or just the MBX link i posted b4.

 

[chaphack]

About PSP price...come to think of it, PSP is more like a portable media player rather than a full Pocketpc/Palm/Mp3s.. Does it have read and write capabilities? Dont think so ya? Now with only 12mb(?) of RAM and no solid state memory(ala iPod), it might loop the cost to just the mips cpu, battery and lcd.

Still 199 minimum sounds about right..

 

[PC-Engine]

The specs says it support memory sticks.

 

[rabidrabbit]

.. Does it have read and write capabilities? Dont think so ya?..

Memorystick?

 

[zurich]

About PSP price...come to think of it, PSP is more like a portable media player rather than a full Pocketpc/Palm/Mp3s.. Does it have read and write capabilities? Dont think so ya? Now with only 12mb(?) of RAM and no solid state memory(ala iPod), it might loop the cost to just the mips cpu, battery and lcd.

Still 199 minimum sounds about right..

iPod used a hard drive, not exactly solid state (ie: there are moving parts).

 

[chaphack]

Oh yeay! Memsticks! FINALLY! Thats good. PS3+Memsticks be great too. Thats what i speath of having some standard within Sony.

Another limitations of PSP is the UMD.....oh boyee, another proprietery media.... if the PSP can actually playback, in addition of UMD, CD/DVD/BR/MD, that be great...but :? i dont think the disc slot will fit. I guess UMD is where SCEI might go from now.

Oh yeay, iPod uses a HD....

 

[rabidrabbit]

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Another limitations of PSP is the UMD.....oh boyee, another proprietery media.... if the PSP can actually playback, in addition of UMD, CD/DVD/BR/MD, that be great...but :? i dont think the disc slot will fit. I guess UMD is where SCEI might go from now...

Limitation? Handheld gaming device?
Is there really currently any 'standard' alternative for a hand held's media format that offers the speed, transfer rate and compact size of UMD?
Small dvd disc as used in GC? That would be too easily scratched when used in a hand held.

 

[Vince]

Thats what i speath of having some standard within Sony

Sony hasn't needed static standards in the past due to the [limited] scope of their ambition as well as this not being a PC. Besides, this is a standard:

 

[chaphack]

I am not taking a shot at UMD, but pondering on whether PSP can playback other medium. UMD as a game medium is fine, large enough, small enough, fast enough. But it will be more appealing to consumers if PSP can playback all their other current medium on the go.....unless of course PSP can rewrite UMDs...

Size doesnt really hit it, since with 480x272 lcd and a Lion battery, PSP is hardly going to be ultra kompact.

 

[chaphack]

Sony doesn't need static standards, this isn't a PC. Besides, this is a standard

I think a common standard is neccesary for long term BB ideals...besides Atari/Sega/Nintendo used to lord over the rest too.

 

[chaphack]

Oh yeay, i forgot again PSP reads memsticks. Still that might be a lil too costly for normal non richie rich users. Heres hoping, Sony stuck to their original PSP slide, the one where it said the UMD lens will play all sort of disc medium.

 

[rabidrabbit]

...Size doesnt really hit it, since with 480x272 lcd and a Lion battery, PSP is hardly going to be ultra kompact.

But with a drive that would be able to read CD's and DVD's, it would be probably be at least the size of your portable cd player with some extra thickness added.
With a 480x272 resolution 16:9 screen and LiIon batt (and alanlog stick, or some smaller 'pin') it will likely be slightly larger than GBA-SP, but still compact enough.

 

[notAFanB]

chap a few things.

I am not taking a shot at UMD, but pondering on whether PSP can playback other medium. UMD as a game medium is fine, large enough, small enough, fast enough. But it will be more appealing to consumers if PSP can playback all their other current medium on the go.....unless of course PSP can rewrite UMDs...

so in short you a wanabe mini laptop?

I think a common standard is neccesary for long term BB ideals...besides Atari/Sega/Nintendo used to lord over the rest too.

you keep bringing up this 'standrd' issue ( from Deadmeats thread I think). can you clarify just what kind of standard? hardware design, API abstractions? comon data format soft/hardware? you are being a little generic here.

 

[zidane1strife]

Yes the paper specs are pretty impressive today for a handheld. Come fall 2004 it won't be that impressive anymore but still impressive nonetheless.

Well, my low-end ge fx does only twice the peak(no edram so it get's no where near it in the real world).... and I'd hope at least the gpu features are far beyond those of the psp(but we'll just wait and see...)... after all that's portable tech...

 

[PC-Engine]

Can someone please tell me if the PSP will still be using a 1 chip solution with multiple cores? Or did SONY change their plan? If so were their orginal plan EE/GS@90nm or was it a downscaled single chip CELL?

 

[Paul]

Noone knows the original plan, however it wasn't for a Cell. That was something we at this forum brought up, we were wrong though.

Maybe the one chip solution is for the graphics cores and sound.