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Tech-Junkie, an online
site that covers news on hardware news,
got a chance to visit Video Logic's UK
headquarters. They were lucky enough to
grab a sneak peak about the
next-generation Power VR2, the Power VR3.
Also, tiny info on Sega's next-generation
system. "YES! There IS a PowerVR3
and it WILL knock your socks off! It's
called Kyro. The boys are working on it
in these offices as we speak," says
Video Logic PR rep David Harold,
continuing, "We're working with NEC
and ST. NEC will be producing for console
and arcade markets once again, while ST
will be working on the PC version of
Kyro."
The Power VR3 will very likely
be a 512-bit chip, because the Power VR2
found in DC is a 128-bit chip, and the
Power VR2 upgraded chip has 256-bits. The
Power VR2 upgraded chip is fully
compatible with the original Power VR,
and could probably be added to the
Dreamcast is some way in the future. The
Power VR2 upgraded chip can boast 120 or
more frames per second, at a very high
polygon rate.
At the moment, there are over 4
million Power VR2 chips in the world,
mostly from the Dreamcast hardware and
the Naomi hardware. Well, that's what it
said in the Tech-Junkie article, but I
think there's about 7 million because,
there is over 4 million Dreamcasts in the
world at the moment. When VL PR rep David
Harold was asked how the chip would go
into the next-generation Sega system, he
thought about it for a while, then
answered, "I'd say carefully that
those news reports are mistaken."
Well, there you have it folks, you heard
the man. Tech-Junkie was also able to get
a picture of an unfinished Power VR3
chip. Here it is:
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