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About Nintendo 64 RCP not being made by SGI (self.retrogaming)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by IlIllIIIllIlIlIIlI to c/retrogaming
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I remember one post from a lot of years ago, in some web I can not remember, about Nintendo 64 manufacture history. I remember that it said that Sillicom Graphics (SGI) had heavy issues during the design/manufacture of the N64 RCP coprocessor. Because of this, finally this chip was made by other company, not SGI.

Recently I looked for that post but could not find it. I read other posts about this history but none talks about this SGI issue thing.

Does somebody know anything about this? Maybe is just me remembering it wrong.

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[โ€“] RightHandOfIkaros 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

SGI only made the RCP, Reality CoProcessor.

NEC (who sold the PC Engine, PC-FX consoles and the PC-98XX series home computers at the time) licensed the MIPS R4200 CPU designs from MTI. They then created the derivative CPU the N64 used, the MIPS VR4300i.

[โ€“] IlIllIIIllIlIlIIlI 1 points 2 months ago

You are right about the RCP. I fixed the op. Thanks.