The article makes it sound like Microsoft designed the graphics core in-house and had it fabbed somewhere cheap... and then when that didn't work they went to ATI and bought a design? Wouldn't that make the two generations of chipset incompatible?
As one of the posters above mentioned; Microsoft licensed a design which is pretty common and then got a cheap vendor to produce the silicon. Which is a world apart from Microsoft cracking out the VHDL and wipping up a GPU.
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The article makes it sound like Microsoft designed the graphics core in-house and had it fabbed somewhere cheap... and then when that didn't work they went to ATI and bought a design? Wouldn't that make the two generations of chipset incompatible?
As one of the posters above mentioned; Microsoft licensed a design which is pretty common and then got a cheap vendor to produce the silicon. Which is a world apart from Microsoft cracking out the VHDL and wipping up a GPU.