What companies has Nintendo partnered with to make Cube?
At the pre-E3 press conference, Lincoln announced three major business partners would play key parts in the development and manufacturing of Cube. The companies are ArtX, IBM and Matsushita. Since that time IGN has learned of additional Cube business partners including NEC, MoSys which supplies the 1T-SRAM memory technology, and Applied Microsystems who is in charge of engineering the Cube development kits. Also, Nintendo announced several partnerships aimed to aid developers in Cube game creation. S3 is providing a texture compression technique for the graphics chip, Metrowerks will provide a Cube specific version of it’s Codewarrior development environment, and Factor 5 will license its proprietary sound tools and technology, MusyX, for Cube software. As you can tell, Nintendo is not going to try to do it all by themselves. This is a smart move, by the opinion of many.
