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To: Jeffrey P who wrote (12475)	5/12/1999 11:16:00 AM
From: Plaz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

This still doesn't address what Nintendo is using for their graphics chip architecture; just for their CPU. Sega's dreamcast uses a Hitachi 200 MHz RISC processor and a NEC PowerVR2 graphics chip. You still need both functions... Plaz

To: Jeffrey P who wrote (12475)	5/12/1999 11:40:00 AM
From: Plaz	Respond to of 16960

As for PS2 specs, all I've heard is that they are evaluating what features to put into the final product (net browsing, DVD movies, etc). All I can say is that if Sony can deliver 1200 MTexels/sec, 6.2 GFLOPS, 25 Million polygons/sec, 32MB 800MHz 2-channel rambus ram (48GB/sec bandwidth), DVD player, MPEG-2 decoding, .18 micron process, by this fall for $300 bucks I will be seriously impressed. Plaz

To: Jeffrey P who wrote (12475)	5/12/1999 11:45:00 AM
From: John Farrell	Respond to of 16960

Guys...despite the "hype" of the computing power of 3Dfx chips, all they do is process instructions passed to them by a general purpose CPU, they don't have the ability to run the games natively. Thus, any machine that is going to execute game code (a PC, a game console, an arcade box) needs a general purpose processor to run the game (and, in this case, the browser, etc). It's possible that there's a special version of the PowerPC chip that has 3D specific functionality, but not necessarily. There could still be a seperate graphics core used along with the PowerPC CPU. -DJ (former employee of STBI)

To: Jeffrey P who wrote (12475)	5/12/1999 1:33:00 PM
From: Ben Wu	Respond to of 16960

I have not been following the console market as much as I should. Does anyone know how much functionality outside of gaming the new sony product will have? the functionality in constantly changing, so they probably won't know for a couple of months. Apparently the head of sony and the creator of the PSX are having some "creative differences". next-generation.com One thing that i'm pretty sure of is that PSX2 will NOT play dvd's ( sales of individual DVD players would be gutted! ) -ben