Nvidia to create another SoundStorm

SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
edited December 2004 in Science & Tech
It has been reported that Nvidia will in fact produce a SoundStorm 2. However, the question of how it will manifest itself is still anyone's guess.
Here at NVIDIA's Editor's Day event today, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang addressed questions about the company's plans for a possible second spin of its popular but ill-fated SoundStorm audio solution. Apparently, a reprise of SoundStorm will happen. Huang told the assembled press types, "We're gonna build SoundStorm 2. It's gonna be awesome." He was less clear on what form the next SoundStorm would take, saying that NVIDIA was still trying to figure out how to deliver SoundStorm as a product. Huang said, cryptically, that the new SoundStorm "will come in a way that you won't expect."
In the same Q&A session, Huang spoke about NVIDIA's history with the NV1 "media processor" chip, which had built-in sound as well as graphics. He disputed that notion that NVIDIA is primarily a "graphics company," and then suggested that the GPU is going to evolve and expand beyond graphics to include other kinds of digital media.

Based on all of that, it doesn't sound to me like the next SoundStorm is likely to find its way into a future nForce chipset. Instead, some future GeForce seems like a more likely place for SoundStorm to appear, as strange as that sounds. Of course, it's all speculation at this point, but in one form or another, SoundStorm will someday return.
Source: Techreport

Comments

  • SputnikSputnik Worcester, MA
    edited December 2004
    bout time!
  • ShivianShivian Australia
    edited December 2004
    Hmmm yeah doesn't sound like a bad idea if they integrate it into a vid card cleanly.
  • SputnikSputnik Worcester, MA
    edited December 2004
    it's a weird idea.... but why not? there's no reason not to i suppose as everything's goign on the same bus (again) anyways.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    Do they have any plans for a super board of some kind? Such as instead of some crappy integrated graphics card a board with the latest graphics chipset and all that, all built around each other for the most optimal performance?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    Or we could receive it in the form of a PCIe x1 card.

    //EDIT:

    Existing motherboard designs are wholly incapable of handling all the features of an nForce4/925x-level chipset, PLUS integrated soundstorm audio PLUS the newest video card, Loki. The motherboard would have to be insanely complex, double or triple the amount of layers currently present in a PCB, and the power requirements and mobo trace requirements would be equally steep. It could be <b>done</b> but it would be the most expensive motherboard to produce <b>ever</b>.
  • Unregistered
    edited December 2004
    Nvidia's ultimate all in wonder with sound storm 2, TV in, VIVO. BTW, did anyone see I think it was in Tomshardware Guide, about using your video card for the best/ ultimate solution in sound processing.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited December 2004
    I would rather have the ALU and GPU on the same card rather than using the video card to do the work. Just as long as the sound doesnt take away performance from video performance while gaming.
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