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AMD Sells 50 Millionth ATI Graphics Chip for Nintendo Wii

Today AMD announced that it had sold the 50 millionth ATI 'Hollywood' graphics chip for the Wii gaming console for Nintendo. With 50 million units delivered, the ATI graphics processor code-named Hollywood becomes the most successful AMD game console chip to date in terms of unit sales. The Hollywood GPU was manufactured using the same 90nm CMOS fabrication process as the 'Broadway' processor, which is the CPU in Nintendo Wii's and developed by IBM. Nintendo, ATI, and IBM have all been secretive by not releasing clock rates nor how many pixel pipelines or shaders the GPU possess. What we do know about the Hollywood GPU is that its a multichip module package composed of two dies with one controlling; I/O functions, RAM access and the actual graphics processing with its embedded DRAM. The other die has the audio DSP and a 24MB of internal 1T-SRAM.

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