今天看到的. 下面的新聞(Neowin)大略是說ATI已經開始準備進軍手機市場, 鑒於手機目前的圖像處理技術還未到達某一層次, ATI將會先推出Imageon 2300系列的圖形處理器專門給手機使用. 也同時將可提供3D加速, Mpeg4解碼, 每秒30張影片速度, "open GL"API支援.

不知道Nvidia會不會也想搶這塊大餅呢? 呵呵..

ATI puts 3D in mobile phones
Posted by Voodoo on 08 Jan 2004 - 12:01 CET | 7 Comments

The PC graphics chipmaker has scaled down its technology to bring high-end games to the world of handheld computers. Graphics chipmaker ATI is jumping into the handheld market with a new line of processors aimed at mobile phones, it announced on Wednesday. The Imageon 2300 product line builds on ATI's reputation in the PC gaming market, where the company competes with market leader Nvidia. ATI recently landed a contract to build graphics chips for Microsoft's next-generation Xbox gaming console.

3D gaming hasn't yet taken off on mobile phones, but wireless gaming overall is already popular, and is expected to generate $1bn (£55bn) in revenues for telcos in the US alone by 2006, according to IDC. Nokia was one of the first to exploit the market with its N-Gage handset, which combines phone and gaming features. "Imageon 2300 enables exceptional 3D gaming that will fully leverage and help monetise the higher bandwidth offered by 2.5G and 3G networks," said Azzedine Boubguira, ATI marketing director for handheld products, in a statement.

The chip is designed to take on other handset graphics-processing chores besides 3D: it handles 2D graphics, MPEG 4 decoding for 30 frames-per-second video playback, video capture, image compression and image decompression. The Imageon line supports the OpenGL ES programming interface for rendering 3D, a subset of the OpenGL API used in the PC world.