ATi, ontwikkelaar van grafische chipsets zoals de RADEON-familie, heeft een 3D-chip speciaal voor mobieltjes ontwikkeld: de IMAGEON 2300. Daarmee krijgen gebruikers volgens ATi ‘complete freedom of movement, and visually rich 3D gaming experiences‘.
De IMAGEON 2300 heeft de volgende features, waaruit blijkt dat hij niet alleen voor gamen hoeft te worden gebruikt:
- Advanced 2D and 3D graphics.
- MPEG 4 decode with real-time video playback at 30-fps and low power consumption.
- Video Capture Ports with support for high resolution camera sensors (1.3M and 2M pixels).
- JPEG CODEC to compress and decompress images to be either saved in memory and printed or shared wirelessly by the camera phone user.
- Many other features such as two display engines (primary and sub-display) and embedded frame buffer.
Lof van game-ontwikkelaars is er ook al, zoals van THQ: “We were impressed with the capabilities of the IMAGEON 2300. The hardware 3D engine allowed us to use the original 2003 PC MotoGPII code, combining a high level of performance and graphics that has not been seen with a software only version. With mobile gaming moving at such a rapid pace, and THQ Wireless at the frontier of groundbreaking products, we are delighted to be working with ATI on this project.”
De chip moet in dit kwartaal al in grote aantallen verschijnen. Wie weet kan ‘ie de N-Gage2 nog redden…
