Nintendo GameCube
by Nintendo · game · 2001
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nintendo released the gamecube in japan on september 14, 2001, followed by north america on november 18, 2001. nintendo partnered with artx for the gpu and ibm for the cpu, a 32-bit powerpc-based processor called gekko running at 486 mhz. the console used proprietary minidvd discs with 1.5gb of storage, making it incapable of playing audio cds or video dvds unlike the playstation 2 and xbox.
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scene and geography
- Nintendo 64 · Nintendo
design predecessor · Wei Yen, ArtX founding
Wei Yen, who had led SGI's work scaling supercomputer designs into the N64's graphics pipeline, founded ArtX in 1997 with twenty former SGI engineers. Nintendo contracted ArtX in May 1998 to design the GameCube's system logic and graphics processor, Flipper, carrying forward the institutional knowledge from N64 development into the next generation.
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the deal
- ATI Radeon · ATI Technologies
shared component · ArtX acquisition April 2000
ArtX was acquired by ATI in April 2000, but the Flipper graphics processor design had already been mostly completed by ArtX and was not overtly influenced by ATI. The design timeline arced from inception in 1998 to completion in 2000.
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