page_title: Nuon (DVD technology)
section_title: Specification
hierarchical_section_title: Nuon (DVD technology) / History / Specification
caption_attribution_description: The interior of the Samsung N2000 DVD player, a hybrid gaming system/DVD player that was released in 2000. The N2000 features the Nuon chipset, which made it capable of playing 3D games and offering enhanced DVD playback with select movies. The Nuon line of gaming systems/DVD players came in a few models from different manufacturers, but the N2000 was the first to the market and also came bundled with a controller. Very few games were released for the platform, until the Nuon chipset was phased out a few years later. This picture shows the chipset used for the Nuon functionality. Most of the rest of the innards are used for DVD playback.
context_page_description: Nuon is a technology developed by VM Labs that adds features to a DVD player. In addition to viewing DVDs, one can play 3D video games and use enhanced DVD navigational tools such as zoom and smooth scanning of DVD playback. One could also play CDs while the Nuon graphics processor generates synchronized graphics on the screen. There were plans to provide Internet access capability in the next generation of Nuon-equipped DVD players.
context_section_description: 32/128 bit 54 MHz or 108 MHz quad-core VM labs Nuon MPE hybrid stack processor (Media Processing Element, supporting 128-bit SIMD floating point and 32-bit integer but both share the same IEEE 754 floating point register stack to store both flop and integer instructions similar to the Intel MMX technology through contact switch. Each contains a 128-bytes unified cache, with 32-kilobyte shared cache (32-bit SRAM block) and maximum 2 GB physical memory addresses. Some report(s) suggested that a certain model had sported a 333+ MHz clock frequency but it was never released widely.
  MCS-251 microcontroller for background task
  32-megabyte 8-bit Fast DRAM at 33 MHz, 512-kilobytes sound RAM and 24-kilobytes programmable ROM
  2x 3d Media GL MPE with 8-megabyte video ram
  64~256 MB writable rom and optional hard drive (up to 137 GB)
  Optical drive support DVD or CD-R
caption: The Inside of the Samsung N2000 player, showing the Nuon XCMMP-L3BZPDVD processor.
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