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Last week Nintendo announced the 3D version of its handheld gaming console DS, Nintendo 3DS. Many detailed specifications were also revealed along with the official announcement. However, we didn’t know the chip being used for the glasses-free 3D graphics. Instead of the standard Nvidia Tegra, a DMP PICA200, from a company called Digital Media Professionals, with a 200MHz clock speed is used for pushing pixels to Nintendo’s autostereoscopic screen.
“It supports per-pixel lighting, procedural textures and ant-aliasing among a host of other effects, and generates 15.3 million polygons per second at its native 200MHz,” says Sean Hollister at Engadget.
It seems a capable graphic chip powering the next generation of portable gaming. We don’t have much other information about the 3DS (like the CPU), but overall it’s looking positive and should meet expectations. Check out the video from Engadget that shows the rendering done entirely on the chip.
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