Hudson licenses Mosys 1T-SRAM!

[NEC Avenue]

MoSys Licenses Advanced 1T-SRAM Embedded Memory To Hudson Soft For Next Generation Product Designs

Gaming and entertainment leader chooses MoSys embedded memory technology for its performance, low power and increased density capabilities
SUNNYVALE AND SAPPORO, JAPAN (July 16, 2002) - MoSys, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOSY), the industry's leading provider of high density SoC embedded memory solutions, and Hudson Soft (NASDAQ Japan: 4822), a leading designer of home gaming and electronic entertainment products, today announced that Hudson Soft has licensed MoSys' advanced 1T-SRAM® embedded memory technology. Hudson Soft will use MoSys' 1T-SRAM technology to develop its next generation advanced products incorporating high performance, high density embedded memory blocks.

"Our engineering team evaluated MoSys' 1T-SRAM embedded memory technology and selected MoSys over other embedded memory technologies because of its superior performance, increased density and low power capabilities," said Satoshi Murakami, Corporate Officer of the Core Technology Division at Hudson Soft. "By using the MoSys 1T-SRAM embedded memory, we can offer advanced performance and more capabilities in our products than before at competitive prices."

"Hudson Soft is well known and respected as a leader and innovator in the home gaming and electronic entertainment products industry," noted Mark-Eric Jones, vice president and general manager of intellectual property at MoSys. "We are very pleased that Hudson Soft has chosen MoSys' 1T-SRAM technology and look forward to working with them as partners as they develop future products using our technology."

The detailed specifications and capabilities of MoSys' 1T-SRAM embedded memory blocks, and Hudson Soft's product incorporating the memory blocks will be announced at a later time.

ABOUT HUDSON SOFT

Hudson Soft is a leading developer and publisher of video game software. For thirty years, the company has been a pioneering force in the Japanese gaming industry. Hudson Soft was the first to develop and market personal computer game software in Japan ( 1978 ) and the company was the first third-party publisher for Nintendo's Famicom System (1984). Hudson has two flagship character series, "Bomberman" and "Momotaro", each of which has sold over 10million units. The company has a strong research division, which produces core technology for a myriad of uses. Hudson is also a leading publisher of mobile internet gaming using cellular phones. For more information, visit our website at www.hudson.co.jp.

ABOUT MoSys

Founded in 1991, MoSys (NASDAQ: MOSY), develops, licenses and markets innovative memory technology for semiconductors. MoSys' patented 1T-SRAM technology offers a combination of high density, low power consumption, high speed and low cost unmatched by other available memory technologies. The single transistor bit cell used in 1T-SRAM technology results in the technology achieving much higher density than traditional four or six transistor SRAMs while using the same standard logic manufacturing processes. 1T-SRAM technology also offers the familiar, refresh-free interface and high performance for random address access cycles associated with traditional SRAMs. In addition, this technology can reduce operating power consumption by a factor of four compared with traditional SRAM technology, contributing to making it an ideal technology for embedding large memories in System on Chip (SoC) designs. 1T-SRAM technology is in volume production both in SoC products at MoSys' licensees as well as in MoSys' standalone memories. MoSys is headquartered at 1020 Stewart Drive, Sunnyvale, California 94085. More information is available on MoSys' website at www.mosys.com.

Comments anyone?

I want to see a new NEC/HE system with 3D graphics and eDRAM


Edited by: NEC Avenue  at: 1/7/03 11:08:34 pm

[lex]

Really interesting news !!! Does this mean the coming back of PC ENGINE style gaming.

Obviously why Hudson should care about RAM apart from building a new system ??? We're hearing on the news that Sony and Microsoft start to talk about their future system PS3 and Xbox Next. If Hudson has selected the 1T-SRAM technology it's because they already built a prototype tested and validated mosys technology to be used in it. Just as Nintendo did with the Dolphin.

But we haven't heard about NEC yet, we know they are still in the gaming industry, they did the graphic chip for the Dreamcast and part of the Flipper for the Gamecube.

Another phenomenon is the enthusiasm around the pc engine and the PC-FX legacy, There isn't such a game system like the PCE that has so much been talked about. That's probably one factor that Hudson is considering because they know that if they are coming back with NEC/HE system they would catch quite an audience. Including me.

This is a rather optimistic view, this licensing agreement  could probably mean nothing but a hypergapfx would definitely refresh a bit the VG industry.

[NEC Avenue]

The detailed specifications and capabilities of MoSys' 1T-SRAM embedded memory blocks, and Hudson Soft's product incorporating the memory blocks will be announced at a later time.

I cannot wait...

I've been thinking about naming conventions though. Hypergrafx would be ok, but I think it should be called something really new and cool like NEC FX-1

The imaginary system will be using a NEC SX-6 Vector cpu running at 1 GHz and able to do 30 GFLOPS. The gpu will be co-developed with HE and Bitboys having eDRAM and vertex and pixal shaders. The optical drive will be based on the NEC/Toshiba nextgen HD DVD blue laser format

Also a very interesting fact I found was that NEC is currently working with Bitboys on a mobile 3D graphics chip with embedded memory to be used in a device launching in 2nd half of 2003

[SnethSS]

it is possible for them to just be developing hardware for the other companies too ya know.

remember it was NEC that made the processor for the DC.  Hardware research does not denote that company releasing a system.  Hell, matshushita has made some $$$ from just dev'ing hardware.

[AM2forever]

actually, NEC worked with Videologic on both the PC (PCX1,2) and DC/NAOMI (PowerVR2DC aka CLX) PowerVR chipsets. 

the main technology of PowerVR was developed by Videologic. NEC worked with VL on some design aspects, getting it into workable chips, and all the manufacturing.

Not unlike Flipper in Gamecube, which was designed by ArtX and Nintendo, with assistance from NEC (and MoSys & S3)
and manufactured by NEC.