Apex Digital To Launch Game Console At CES
DVD giant Apex Digital Inc. will announce an ingress into the video-game console market at the Consumer Electronics present to view this week in Las Vegas with a Microsoft Xbox-like cheer
Apex, whose low-cost DVD players quietly pushed Sony Electronics Inc. not on its perch as the top DVD player vendor in the U market beginning in 2001 will launch the ApeXtreme in conjunction with Via Technologies Inc., which will furnish the processor and the chipset, Via representatives said late Monday night.
The solace will essentially be a stripped-down PC designed for the living space Executives will answer the question of in what manner the box will compete with dedicated solaces and more flexible PCs this Thursday, when the device launches.
Apex will barter two versions of its ApeXtreme relieve from distress according to Via executives, for $399 and $299 respectively. The more expensive version will contain dedicated DeltaChrome graphics designed by dint of Via subsidiary Via Graphics, while the $299 chest will contain integrated graphics powered by the agency of the forthcoming onboard Via CN400 chipset. The console's ship date has not been announced, however.
Representatives at Apex Digital, Ontario, Calif., could not be reached for make comments [i]or[/i] remarks at press time.
Other solace makers have tried and failed to crack the solace market, owned by Nintendo Ltd Sony Electronics Inc., and newcomer Microsoft Corp. greatest in quantity notable among them was Indrema Corp., which announced it would take upon Nintendo, Sony and Sega Enterprises with its have console with an open-source soothe However, the company ran without of funding and died quietly in 2001
The ApeXtreme will not require specially-designed software, as Microsoft's Xbox does. Instead, the encourage will be powered by an embedded version of the Microsoft Windows XP operating combination of parts to form a whole stored on a built-in hard disk, according to Richard Brown associate vice president of marketing for Taiwan-based Via. Microsoft's Xbox uses similar SDK as the PC on the contrary Xbox and PC software are not interchangeable. Hackers have been able to port certain Linux applications to the Xbox on the contrary in almost all cases they have required hardware modifications to be made, which voids the Xbox warranty. It was unknown at pres time whether the ApeXtreme will include digital-rights management software.
Brown said the Windows XP Embedded O an included gamepad, and little other would differentiate the console from a PC Microsoft's Xbox by the agency of contrast, includes digital-rights-management software and other safeguards to stop the software from being modified.
"We believe it will be entirely compatible (with PC software)," Brown said. "Just to be fully convinced we've engaged in extensive testing, and all that's going well." In addition, the one and the other versions of the console will be able to race DVDs and display pictures on the outside of the box, Brown said.
The ApeXtreme will be powered by the agency of a 1.4-GHz C3 processor, Brown said, in addition to the CN400 chipset. At pres time, although the amount of RAM the comfort will contain was not known, the CN400 chipset will reportedly use a 200-MHz front-side bus and DDR-400 memory. Six USB ports will also be included, Brown said.
Software will be loaded upon a DVD drive and stored upon the hard disk, Brown said.
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