Nintendo DS specs revealed...

[Spike]

The picture below was found over at the Beyond3D forums. It looks like it's the official spec sheet for the Nintendo DS, which goes by the codename of Nitro.



Thanks go to Kobunheat over at the gaming-age forums for the translation:

Main Processor ARM946E-S
Subprocessor: ARM7TDMI

Memory
Main Memory: 4 Mbyte (Debugger use: 8)
ARM9/ARM7 for use together - 32Kb (16kbX2)
ARM7 specialty use interior work RAM: 64Kbyte
VRAM: 656

LCD
Screen size (dimensions)
Number of colors?

2D graphic Engine (A,B)
Background: 4 screens max.
Objects: 128 max.

3D graphic engine
(not sure on this first one)
Polygons: 120K/s
Pixels: 30M/s

Sound: 16ch (max 8ch of PSG (which is... what?)
Microphone Input

Wireless communication: IEEE802.11 base protocol

Input devices
Touch panel
crosskey, A, B, R, L, Start, Select (X, Y to be determined(? not sure))

Power stuff - sleep mode, etc.

[bahn]

Cool, but I wanna see what it looks like. May needs to hurry up.

[Damian79]

Wow, confusing.

[Rocca]

ditto, E3 is just around the corner...already?

[neonglow]

Wow, a 3D graphics engine on a Nintendo handheld!

[Giga Power]

Very, very interesting. Awesome find!

[Drewbacca]

hahaha, nitro, hahahaha. They're names a 5 year old would choose.

[Grave]

Nitro makes me think that Nintendo's next handheld is going to be an American Gladiator.

Silly, but Apple's used weirder code names.

[Frogacuda]

The 2D specs are identical to the GBAs. This thing ought to be backward compatible.

Also, only 97Mhz on the ARM9 is disappointing. I wish they'd got the Zodiac route and use the 233.

[EMAGDNIM]

I can't wait till E3 so I can see what it looks like...