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    News - AMD rejoices on Nintendo Wii success: 50m "Hollywood" GPUs shipped

    Many didn't see it coming, but the Wii's monumental success is paying dividends for AMD.
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    Re: News - AMD rejoices on Nintendo Wii success: 50m "Hollywood" GPUs shipped

    Great news for AMD, congrats, its good achievement to add to their portfolio.

    Shame the chip is the weakest used in modern consoles.

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    Re: News - AMD rejoices on Nintendo Wii success: 50m "Hollywood" GPUs shipped

    PS4 with integrated Intel Graphics. Yikes

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    Re: News - AMD rejoices on Nintendo Wii success: 50m "Hollywood" GPUs shipped

    Of course IBM's the real winner, with CPUs in all three current generation consoles.
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    Re: News - AMD rejoices on Nintendo Wii success: 50m "Hollywood" GPUs shipped

    Quote Originally Posted by Steve View Post
    Of course IBM's the real winner, with CPUs in all three current generation consoles.
    Good point there.

    Doesn't the xbox use ATI as well so ATI are in the two most best selling consoles.

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    Re: News - AMD rejoices on Nintendo Wii success: 50m "Hollywood" GPUs shipped

    Quote Originally Posted by Steve View Post
    Of course IBM's the real winner, with CPUs in all three current generation consoles.
    Cell is the future of Microprocessors

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    Re: News - AMD rejoices on Nintendo Wii success: 50m "Hollywood" GPUs shipped

    AMD should shut up and make some CPUs... where's that fusion chip it promised? *sigh*

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