Here comes the announcement which finally proves that future mobile phones might be the biggest competitor for console gaming. Recently I posted videos on how the current mobile phones handle 3d games, and they were amazing to watch when connected to a TV screen.
Toshiba announced, a dedicated 3D graphics LSI that promises to add previously unseen levels of realism and excitement to games played on mobile phones.
Just patiently read as reported by cdr info :
The new LSI, “TC35711XBG”, can render 100 mega-polygons a second, a performance that far surpasses that of current handheld game consoles. Samples of the new graphics LSI will be available from October.
Mobile phones now integrate larger, higher resolution displays, high spec baseband processors, and increasingly advanced system LSI, shaping an environment increasingly able to support complex software and games. However, the performance of graphics LSI has lagged that of overall system development, and current chips render images at only a few millions of polygons a second. This low level performance has held back development of complex games for mobile phones, add the porting to mobile phones of games developed for other platforms.
Toshiba’s new chip integrates a new developed 3D graphics processor that achieves 38 times the performance of existing products. Its advanced capabilities open the way to further development of software applications of mobile phones. The new chip is also compatible with programmable shader, and its rendering capabilities will bring realistic shading and reflectivity to mobile phones for the first time.
Alongside the new 3D graphics processor, the new LSI also integrates Toshiba’s “Media Embedded Processor” (MeP) to handle sound, a host processor, a WVGA LCD controller for wide-screen displays, and brings all the essential components of a game console onto a single chip dedicated to enhancing mobile phone game performance.
This gives a brief pictures of the how the mobile phone will be technology and hardware attached in near future. The 3d accelerator in todays mobile phone ( normally nokia Nseries ) easily outperform the old video games. The only lack was the availability of proper console pads, but when normal keypad is available over bluetooth, the console keypad doesnt seem much far away.
Even though toshiba mentioned that mass production of 3D Graphics LSI screen will start in Q2 2008 , but isnt the glimpse of future hardware availability for mobile phones amazing ???
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[...] videos do give an idea how the hardware requirement is gonna boost for mobiles in near future. Toshiba has already announced the release of 3d graphics chip for mobile. So lets watch whats Sony’s, motorola and samsung’s answer to this. You can Rate [...]