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Wii Also a Success for AMD

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By Kris Graft

March 11, 2009

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Chipmaker AMD said Wednesday that it has shipped 50 million units of the Nintendo Wii's custom ATI-developed graphics chip, codenamed "Hollywood."

AMD, which earns per-unit royalties from its game console partnerships, said the GPU is "the most successful AMD game console chip to date in terms of unit sales."

Nintendo general manager of Integrated R&D Genyo Takeda said in a statement that the Hollywood chip is "a great part of the momentum of Wii."

The latest Wii worldwide shipment numbers stand just shy of the 50 million mark. Nintendo's full fiscal year Wii hardware shipment forecasts are for 26.5 million units.

AMD-owned ATI also is responsible for the Xbox 360's GPU, and was behind the "Flipper" GPU for the GameCube.

glennsurname29's picture
On March 12th glennsurname29 said:

All that really puts it in perspective for me! ATI in gamecube grunted higher quality effects and textures than Nvida in xbox, (though the "Cube" was cheaper) now Ps3 has nvidia inside,(which was already a year out of date at ps3 release) cost more than the xbox 360 with ATI and doent have better visuals! spot a pattern here or is it me?

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On March 12th dreamhunk said:

with all the pc bashing these days i think pc gamers should just boycutt all hardware companies who support consoles! Hardware companies don't make money on new hardware!

SaintJude's picture
On March 12th SaintJude said:

Aaron, do the honours please.

SaintJude's picture
On March 12th SaintJude said:

nVidia are having a foot in mouth moment, i think.

ZeoStar's picture
On March 11th ZeoStar said:

At this point, I really wonder what nVidia are saying to themselves knowing all this?

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On March 11th NickgamertagO1 said:

AMD has to be in a good place with the 360/Wii (especially the Wii) doing so well.