Currently the RSX is still in development, and no actual silicon is available as of yet. Looking at Sony's timeline, I would expect the RSX to be taped out by the end of this Summer, and that first silicon will be available in late Fall. Once all the little problems are fixed and the design is working as it should, Sony will take over production and pay NVIDIA a royalty for the use of their technology. While overall revenue from this deal will be lower than the X-Box, NVIDIA will not have to worry about things such as production schedules, poor yields, and the other pitfalls of handling the production portion of a GPU.
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PenStarSys
May 25, 2005, 04:50 PM
