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nVidia to power PS3

Posted on Friday, 21 January 2005 by Speed, source: Gamesindustry.biz
Word over at Gamesindustry.biz is that Sony has made a deal with nVidia and that the chipmaker will be providing the graphical power to Sony's upcoming PS3.

To make sure Sony's PS3 will be fast enough, nVidia will not use any of its current GPU's but instead one of the next generation. Support for DirectX9 and Shader Models 3.0 will of course be present.

"We've been working with them to produce a version that is customised specifically to connect that to the Cell processor," he said, "so that they could work together. The timing and everything is up to them to disclose, although we will have some products a little bit later this year, so this is not that far in the future on the development side."

Commenting on Sony's reasoning for going to an external company for its graphics part - as opposed to its traditional approach of designing and manufacturing most of its consoles in-house - Roman pointed that developing graphics processors is becoming increasingly complex, but said that NVIDIA's software as much as its hardware was desirable for Sony.
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how will DirectX9 and PS3 together become important together?
how will DirectX9 and PS3 together become important together?
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