Category Archives: Consoles

XBox Revenues Rise 20%

Posted on October 24, 2003 by Ron

Microsoft officials have posted slightly better than expected figures for the company’s first quarter results. Unusually sales were boosted from outside of the company’s core business, in particular servers and MSN. For the period ended September 30 sales rose 6% … Continue reading →

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Xbox Next to have ATI GPU’s

Posted on August 15, 2003 by Ron

Well, that explains the $US18 million listed as a “deferred revenue associated with an unannounced contract” that showed up on ATI’s books last quarter. This apparently was a prepayment for R&D associated with developing the graphics chips for the next-gen … Continue reading →

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NVIDIA and Microsoft make-up – End arbitration over XBox chip pricing

Posted on February 6, 2003 by Ron

An NVIDIA press release announced that they had reached an agreement with Microsoft over the pricing dispute of the GPU (graphics) and MPU (audio/networking) chips that NVIDIA manufacturers for the XBOX. NVIDIA president and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, states “This is … Continue reading →

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Biting the hand that feeds you… NVIDIA fights Microsoft, sorta

Posted on May 1, 2002 by Ron

San Jose— So where does an 800 pound gorilla sleep? Where ever he wants. Microsoft has told NVIDIA that they deal that they had for pricing chipsets last year isn’t so cool. Microsoft points out that – hey, you must … Continue reading →

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