Re: Revolution in mid-2006! will use 1T-SRAM
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Nintendo Revolution for 2006?
Posted May 10, 2005, 1:31 PM ET by Ryan Block
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Nintendo revolution!
Ok everyone, huddle up. Here's where we stand right now-we've got a few days
left be for all the big announcements, but we're gonna lay it down like we
got it. So, we know for sure that the Xbox 360, which is being unveiled this
week, is going to be shipping in time for the holidays this year. Check. We
don't have much dirt on Sony's PS3, but we assume it won't be far behind-we'll
know more as soon as they let it all out next week at E3, or when we get
some leaked info (whichever comes first, of course). And what now also know
is that [the Nintendo [b]Revolution, also slated for introduction at E3,
will be shipping (as previously estimated) in mid 2006-this according to a
quarterly conference call by MoSys, a tech supplier to NEC (who is doing the
Revolution's RAM). (FYI, the statement was made about 9 minutes into the
call,[/b] if you want to bother listening.) Yeah, it's a mite extrapolated,
but MoSys is just the kind of company connected enough to know these kinds
of things, but distant enough to have lips that loose. Yo MoSys, you want to
drop us a few other details while you're at it?
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http://cube.ign.com/articles/611/611577p1.html
Revolution Coming Mid-2006
According to the system's memory supplier, anyway.
by Matt Casamassina
May 10, 2005 - Memory maker MoSys Inc. today announced its first quarter
2005 earnings. In a live conference call with investors and media the
company's CEO and chief financial officer Mark Voll stated that MoSys would
once again be supplying an embedded 1T-SRAM solution for Nintendo's
forthcoming console, codenamed Revolution. He also revealed for the first
time a general target ship date for the still top-secret next-generation
platform.
"During the quarter we announced that NEC Electronics will now use our
1T-SRAM embedded memory technologies on their advanced 90nm process, and
that the initial designs to be incorporated in SoCs will be used in
Nintendo's next-generation game console, codenamed Revolution," said Voll.
"We are excited to be a participating member of the Nintendo team once again
as Nintendo will roll out its successor game console to the GameCube in
mid-2006."
The news is exciting for two reasons: first, it's official word that
Revolution will again use 1T-SRAM, the same memory standard that GameCube
utilized with great results. 1T-SRAM provides significant advantages over
traditional SRAM in density, power consumption and cost, according to maker
MoSys. "Instead of six transistors utilized in a traditional SRAM storage
cell, each 1T-SRAM storage cell contains only one transistor and one
capacitor, thus reducing the silicon required and lowering cost. This
technology has been proven with the shipment of millions of devices," MoSys
writes on the subject.
MoSys did not reveal how much memory it would provide for Revolution.
Secondly, today's news suggests that Revolution will ship well after Sony's
PlayStation 3, which is rumored for a first quarter 2006 debut.
IGN contacted Nintendo of America for further comment and will update the
story later today if the subsidiary has anything to add.
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