14 DAY TRIAL // MoSys, a provider of high-density system-on-chip (SoC) embedded memory solutions, announced today that it will be the memory supplier for Nintendo's famous gaming console - the Wii - and that it will provide what is said to be a high performance and density 1T-SRAM, informs Megagames.
The two companies have a historical partnership if we are to consider the great success the GameCube had in 1991, a console that had the same memory provider - MoSys.
"The newest 1T-SRAM implementations embedded within the Wii console are fabricated using NEC Electronics' advanced 90nm CMOS-compatible embedded DRAM process technology. These high speed and ultra low latency memories are used as the main embedded memory on the graphics chip and in an additional external memory chip," writes Megagames.
As Nintendo has kept a total secret regarding the technical details of its upcoming Wii, there have been so many rumors that I, for one, have written so many web pages that my hands hurt.
All that is known, up until now, about the Wii is that it will be powered by an IBM processor, a new version of the manufacturer's Power 750 FX chip released in 2001, produced using 90nm process technology, an innovative IBM expertise and will boast 91 MB of memory, it will not feature a hard disk drive, having instead a 512MB of flash memory. If the user wishes to upgrade the memory, he will be able to use the card reader.
Furthermore, Wii can be permanently wireless connected to the Internet, even if it's not working, because of a built-in IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network controller, or with a USB 2.0 LAN adaptor. Other than Internet, Wii can be connected to a TV set using an AV multi-output port. And it can be controlled using three-axis motion-sensitive Wii Remote controllers, which can be used as a pointer within 5 meters of the screen, or the Nunchuk controller.