DCK Posted April 26, 2006 Posted April 26, 2006 What I am curious about is why NEC gets a order for "memory chips". I thought NEC only makes the LSI like they did with the Gamecube. Samsung and MoSys will supply memory chips. Too bad that those press releases always give so little information. Concerning technical difficulty, yield rate, etc. the Revolution should not have a problem being around in sufficient quantities around September. NEC handles the production of the MoSys chips. They act as MoSys's factory. I think it works the same as the Flipper which was also produced by NEC though designed by ATi/ArtX (correct me on that). But yeah, like you said, this makes a November release easy.
system_error Posted April 26, 2006 Posted April 26, 2006 Maybe NEC assembles the "motherboard" of the Revolution and needs more memory chips because Nintendo wants a surprise launch as soon as possible...at least that is what I am hoping for.
SpinesN Posted April 27, 2006 Posted April 27, 2006 Or they just boost up the amount of memory... Seeing as we don't actually know how much is in there it's hard to say. Still I think under most settings no company would do that. I can only see adding of ram being done if there were some kind of price break at the last minute.
ndreamer Posted April 27, 2006 Posted April 27, 2006 gamecube memory latency is 6.2 ns for both the frame buffers and 10ns for 24meg of main ram. the 16meg of A-Ram however is much much slower. xbox is 25-40ns and the ps2 is 50-70ns for the main memory. NEC are actualy making the main flipper part (broadway) which has the graphics, some memory and most of the other components on board.
ShadowV7 Posted April 27, 2006 Author Posted April 27, 2006 This statement can mean good and bad thing's.We need E3.
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