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from http://www.gamespot.com/news/6154279.html

Report: Nvidia GPUs to be in next-gen iPods
American Technology Research changes rating on graphics-chip-maker's stock on belief its technology will be part of forthcoming crop of media handhelds.
By Tor Thorsen, GameSpot
Posted Jul 18, 2006 9:07 pm PT

In late May, a Silicon Valley recruiter told GameSpot that it looked like Apple was forming a secret games division. According to the source, former LucasArts technical director Mike Lampell is heading up a group inside the storied iTunes division, and hiring for "C/C++ coders with a 'gaming background.'"

Today, further evidence surfaced that indicate a future version of Apple's ubiquitous iPod player will have gaming functionality. The news came when industry-research firm American Technology Research raised its rating of graphics-chip-maker Nvidia from "hold" to "buy."

The reason?

"Based on our analysis, we believe Nvidia is designed into the next-generation video iPod socket at the expense of Broadcom," ATR analyst Satya Chillara told the EE Times, referring to the maker of the graphics processing unit (GPU) in current-generation video ipods. "We believe the Nvidia chip adds 3D graphics functionality in addition to all of the existing features that Broadcom supported with the existing vPod."

Besides the existing video playback, a 3D Nvidia GPU has one other obvious application--gaming. However, it must be emphasized that Apple has not officially announced any iPod with anything more than the rudimentary games on current-generation iPods. Requests for comment on the use of Nvidia chips in iPods had gone unanswered as of press time.
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That would be weird to game on your ipod, i mean its perfect for music and pictures, but i cant see myself playing a rps on a touch sensative wheel, call me crazy but i just dont see it ending well.
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That would be weird to game on your ipod, i mean its perfect for music and pictures, but i cant see myself playing a rps on a touch sensative wheel, call me crazy but i just dont see it ending well.



Yea my thoughts exactly. I still will be ok with my 40GB version to just play music and use as hard drive:D
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click wheel= perfect steering wheel
maybe they would come out with a ipod controller haha
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well I love apple and there ipods, but they keep coming out with new stuff I dont know how long I can keep spending money on there stuff :D

I am already buying a ipod nano this week, so I can use this cool little tool.
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haha that is pretty sweet zapa, i havent seen that before
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That would be weird to game on your ipod, i mean its perfect for music and pictures, but i cant see myself playing a rps on a touch sensative wheel, call me crazy but i just dont see it ending well.



I said that about just music! Man, I was happy with good old fashion music...then came color, pictures, smaller size (pretty damn breakable), and videos! So, I am not suprised if they go into something like this.
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haha that is pretty sweet zapa, i havent seen that before



ya, but I dont like nike+ipod shoes so what I am going to do is cut a hole in my asics shoes for the little ipod+nike piece to go in(hope it works good):D


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I said that about just music! Man, I was happy with good old fashion music...then came color, pictures, smaller size (pretty damn breakable), and videos! So, I am not suprised if they go into something like this.



are the nanos that breakable?? will they break with just the shake of my arm when I am jogging?? or do I have to drop it to break it. :D
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click wheel= perfect steering wheel
maybe they would come out with a ipod controller haha




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haha that is pretty sweet zapa, i havent seen that before



yea, drifting in my S7 Twin turbo on PGR4:IE (Ipod Edition), would be pretty pimp with the ipod wheel. Imagine, plugging a wired 360 controller into the ipod and using that to play FPS' on it...HAHAHA :D
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see, i knew u guys would be up for it.. i'd buy a video game ipod.... on ebay 3 years later
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see, i knew u guys would be up for it.. i'd buy a video game ipod.... on ebay 3 years later



thats already been opened used "refurbished" repackaged and then sold
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