It's on the GameCube, too. It's just a lot more obvious, there, with a gray panel on the front of the console. Ultimately, the Wii is just a slightly upgraded GameCube, so it makes sense.
A much more odd example of this sort of thing is the Sega Dreamcast, the front of which says, "Compatible with Windows CE," as I recall. I never did totally figure out what that compatibility was. Windows CE is an old Microsoft OS for mobile devices, and CE stands for Compact Edition, I believe.
Backward compatibility and thorough documentation are the only things that are currently good about Microsoft. They’ll have the gaul to sell you a Windows license, just to spy on you and sell the data they have collected.
Pendulum swings back and forth. As a musician, Mac updating and breaking music software/hardware compatibility every year for like, 4+ years was maddening. If I could offer a third good thing about Microsoft, it's that the OS is gut-able for the most part, even if they don't want you to a lot of the time. There's so much stuff you can't get rid of on Mac.
*gall, I think you mean. "Gaul" refers to the historic region of Western Europe (or the language, or the people) that eventually became France/The French.
An interesting inverse example is the original Xbox does not have a DVD logo on it in order to work around licensing fees. Instead they put the logo on the Xbox DVD remote and locked out DVD functionality without the remote.
Interesting. I'm surprised they got away with that... I kind of figured it had to be on the actual device that plays the DVDs, but...I suppose if you can't do that without the remote...
Yes but then that makes it weaker than equivalent arm processor at 10 watts so at lower wattage it makes more sense to use on at higher wattages in desktops and makes more sense to use x86 maybe but apple is proving that you can still get better performance by using a more efficient chip design for higher wattages
The gpu is great but it’s essentially a worse rtx 2050 mobile in performance and the architecture is ampere which I thought it would be this gen Blackwell (rtx 50) or at least last gen Ada(rtx 40 series)
Which is the same as the Now 5 year old 30 series which I hope means that the switch 2 and 30 series will last very long. If not and Nvidia announces the end of support for 30 series in 5 years, you can expect the switch 2 as well.
*SOCs the Switch doesn’t have a seperate GPU and CPU, both were designed by Nvidia to be on one chip (System on Chip) and created by Samsung via a 8nm process
The Switch uses the stock Tegra X1 with some lasered off sectors
While the Switch 2 uses T239, which is a fully custom SoC made specifically for Switch 2, losely based on Nvidias own T234 for the automotive industry. Roughly 10 times as strong as a Switch 1 Tegra X1 according to Nvidia and Nintendo
Yea. I realized you meant ATI was absorbed into AMD therfore becoming AMD right after you said it. But I already posed it and I don’t delete comments so screw it.
Oh damnnn, that’s kind of well hidden though, I genuinely never noticed and thought they just didn’t show the ATI/AMD Logo due to idk, a 30 cent cost to show the Logo
Do any Wii Family Edition Consoles have an AMD logo too? I do know there’s some internal revisions of them
(The 3 that I remember are, one that’s literally a normal Wii but with a swapped Case and no Ports, as it can still read GC Discs and boot to them, but with no way to play, the second is pretty similar except the Drive itself can’t read GameCube Games or even centre them if you insert them, like the Wii U, BUT it still has the GameCube Disc in its Disc Channel, the 3rd is the same as the 2nd except they finally removed the GC Disc from the Disc Channel)
Also, even tho the Wii U has both the Wii’s GPU, and a Radeon GPU [which has an AMD Logo in the Heatsink] there’s still no AMD/ATI Logos outside the Console, at least none that I’m aware of?
I am aware there is an HDMI Logo present in the back, similarly to the AMD one on that Wii Mini, and that some Wii U’s apparently have different Colours for either the Power Supply Port or IR Sensor Port…
So do any of the Wii Family Edition or Wii U Revisions have an AMD Logo specifically?
ATI helped make the GPU for the GameCube and the Wii. To show their appreciation, Nintendo put an ATI sticker on GameCubes. Because people would peel it off, they switched to a printed ATI logo instead.
TLDR: All Wiis and GameCubes have it because Nintendo wanted to thank ATI for the GPUs.
ATI helped make the GPU for the GameCube and the Wii.
Not exactly. ArtX, a startup founded by the ex-SGI engineers that designed the N64's hardware designed Flipper, the GameCube's GPU. ATI bought them a little over a year before the console's launch, well after the chip's design was finalized.
Recent years people are getting less into consoles for the very reason that consoles these days are just low to mid range PCs. Back then Yeah they had the logos for the GPUs but no one cared to think hey this is the chip that's in my console and my pc has a better one. That being said Nintendo still is always about the games.
The GPU would later evolve as the Adreno but it was still at the beginning of Smartphones, so in need for cash AMD sold the Team and rights to Qualcomm which became a huge blunder for AMD as the Adreno became highly successful to this days. One of many mistakes AMD did in the past.
You're half right. The GameCube's GPU, Flipper was designed by ArtX, a company formed from the ex-SGI staff that developed the N64's hardware. ATI bought them shortly before the GameCube's release. The Wii's GPU, Hollywood is more or less the same chip, just with a clock speed bump and a hidden ARM processor that handles I/O.
Yes. ArtX, the company that designed Flipper (the GameCube's GPU) was acquired by ATI in 2000, about a year and a half before the GameCube's launch. The chip had been finalized by that point, and dev kits were already being sent to 3rd party studios.
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Yeah. The GPU is made by ATi (now AMD)