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[W1nTry]

Well folks heres a lil news about the up and coming PS3...

Playstation 3 to use Nvidia graphics

Blocks begin to pile up

By INQUIRER staff: Tuesday 07 December 2004, 10:03
THE GRAPHICS CHIP for the next generation of the Playstation will be based on some flavour of Nvidia technology.

Sony and Nvidia made the joint announcement today, but gave little details of what the graphics processor will do for the Playstation 3.

Nevertheless, the announcement is one in the nuts for Microsoft, as Nvidia has been livid over its previous collaboration with the chip software giant.

When is the Playstation 3 out? Apparently in limited quantities next year and in spates the year after. The graphics chip will be made by Sony at its Nagasaki Fab Two and at a joint venture fab owned by Tosh-Sony.

CEO Jen-Hsun Huang is over the moon with delight. He trilled: "We are thrilled to partner with Sony Computer Entertainment to build what will certainly be one of the most important computer entertainment and digital media platforms of the twenty-first century".

The deal between Sony and Nvidia doesn't just cover the Playstation, but other Sony consumer products under a royalty yielding agreement.

and here I was thinking they were gonna use the cell processors for everything... I guess I was wrong... ah well.... next!!!!                    

[TrinireturnofGamez]

the next gen consoles video chips won't be much more advanced than a 6800 , just on a smaller process , so they can manufacture them real cheap .  
  Shader model 3.0  is all we have until DX 10 in 2006 and SM 4 ..... SM4 is supposed to be a 'unified shader architecture ' , so that everyones shaders will be the same thing  , making it easier for developers to use next gen shading , and eliminating performance  problems like the Geforce FX + HL2.
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  The Cell is overrated.... remember when they said the PS2 was a supercomputer, rivaling those used by the US military? A 1ghz pentium 3 will own it , and running WINDOWS too ...  
  The PS3 will probably use a low end model of the cell... , we'll see high end Cell chips  in the more expensive macs for sure .