More PVR MBX news..

~~HawK~~ · Feb 20, 2004, 07:16 AM

from The Register; Intel chief touts mobile 3D chip, ignores next-gen XScale
a small Intel mobile story..

"Having once claimed that its next-generation XScale processor, codenamed Bulverde, would bring "mobile gaming into the 21st Century", Intel now argues that you'll really need a discrete mobile graphics chip too.

Today, however, Smith's successor, Sean Maloney, who heads Intel's Communications Group - which now encompasses Smith's wireless chip unit, following regime change - told IDF attendees that phone makers and PDA designers will need to implement 'Carbonado', the company's prototype mobile 3D graphics accelerator, in order to obtain an "unusually real 3D feel".

Carbonado first surfaced during Intel President and COO Paul Otellini's CES presentation last month. Developed for use alongside an ARM-based processor like XScale, the chip is believed to derive from Imagination Technologies' PowerVR MBX core, which Intel licensed in July 2002. "

good news for PVR fans, but as usual will just have to wait and see...

***Zardon*** · Feb 20, 2004, 08:39 AM

heres hoping.

Judas · Feb 20, 2004, 10:20 AM

..... some people are getting rather quite restless and irritated..... the waiting game is getting unbarrable by a few as well....

~~HawK~~ · Feb 20, 2004, 12:04 PM

Well nothing real yet, but it is a good thing when Intel starts with being the first to bring HW that uses the PVR MBX, others* will follow very soon!!, MBX News & Spec's
remember a year ago you could get Img-Tec shares for 15ct, today it is close to 1 pound

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a few Img-Tec licensing Partners:
Frontier Silicon
Intel Corporation
NEC
Renesas (Hitachi & Mitsubitsu)
Samsung
Sharp Corporation
STMicroelectronics
Texas Instruments

Judas · Feb 20, 2004, 06:13 PM

cut STM.... i doubt they'll even look again...