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Xbox 360 and Wii orders ramping up, say chip makers

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Compiled from outside sources; Esther Lam, DigiTimes.com [Friday 7 July 2006]

While talk of an early launch of the Nintendo Wii game console circulates in the market, chip makers including, ATI and Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS), said orders for their chips used in game consoles, including the Wii and Xbox 360, are picking up.

The concrete release date of the Will is not yet finalized and Nintendo said it would announce the release date and pricing in September, according to a recent Bloomberg report.

ATI, which supplies the graphics chip for the Wii, reported that the contribution from its consumer electronics chips business this year grew to 20% from last year's 15%, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report.

Pixart Imaging (PXI), an affiliate of United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) and the remote sensor chipset supplier for the Wii, was cited by the Commercial Times as saying that its shipments may reach a million units in August.

SiS, the southbridge chip supplier for the Xbox 360, is also cited in the report as saying that orders started picking up from July.

PixArt is a small Korean company that is developing a "Multi Object Tracking" sensor for the Wii. Here's their recent press release.

One million sensors (on the remote? or the sensor bar?) may not equal a million consoles ready for shipment in August. Nevertheless, it looks like they are ramping up production quite fast. September launch in Japan?

edit: Sorry, old.. damn you guys are fast =/

 

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