odin20
02-26-03, 03:39 PM
Check it out- looks like no r400 this year. And the r350 confirmed at 13nm. This may leave a opening for the nv35 if its out by fall and actually performs well. Look closely he says it will be highest performing board for this year, which clearly mean no r400 to me.
"LA QUINTA, Calif., Feb 25 (Reuters) - ATI Technologies Inc ATY.TO , locked in a battle with rival Nvidia Corp NVDA.O over bragging rights to the fastest graphic chip, plans to release its most-advanced PC chip yet within the next month or so, a company executive said on Tuesday.
Dave Rolston, ATI's vice president of engineering, said at a Goldman Sachs technology conference here that the company's R350 chip would be "coming out, say, within the next 30 days."
The R350 chip will be the high-end successor to ATI's Radeon 9700 chip. A new version of that chip geared toward the mainstream market is also coming in the next 30 days, he said.
That Radeon 9700 variant will be built using 130 nanometer technology, or .13 micron, which is a reference to the size of the feature sets on the chips. The .13 micron technology promises better speeds and lower costs than past standards, like .15 micron.
"ATI's chief competitor, Nvidia Corp. NVDA.O , is in the process of releasing its high-end chip, the GeForce FX, which is built by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 2330.TW on the .13 micron process. TSMC will also build ATI's chip on that process.
Though the GeForce FX has surpassed the Radeon 9700 on some benchmarks, Rolston claimed that with R350, ATI would have the best-performing chip through at least the end of the calendar year. Such claims of higher performance are key for the graphics chip industry since the games and video applications that they drive require intense processing power.
While declining to discuss specific prices for the R350 or the new Radeon chip, the executive noted that pricing pressures were weighing on the industry."
"There's a lot of concern about pricing, there's a lot of attention to pricing," he said.
"LA QUINTA, Calif., Feb 25 (Reuters) - ATI Technologies Inc ATY.TO , locked in a battle with rival Nvidia Corp NVDA.O over bragging rights to the fastest graphic chip, plans to release its most-advanced PC chip yet within the next month or so, a company executive said on Tuesday.
Dave Rolston, ATI's vice president of engineering, said at a Goldman Sachs technology conference here that the company's R350 chip would be "coming out, say, within the next 30 days."
The R350 chip will be the high-end successor to ATI's Radeon 9700 chip. A new version of that chip geared toward the mainstream market is also coming in the next 30 days, he said.
That Radeon 9700 variant will be built using 130 nanometer technology, or .13 micron, which is a reference to the size of the feature sets on the chips. The .13 micron technology promises better speeds and lower costs than past standards, like .15 micron.
"ATI's chief competitor, Nvidia Corp. NVDA.O , is in the process of releasing its high-end chip, the GeForce FX, which is built by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 2330.TW on the .13 micron process. TSMC will also build ATI's chip on that process.
Though the GeForce FX has surpassed the Radeon 9700 on some benchmarks, Rolston claimed that with R350, ATI would have the best-performing chip through at least the end of the calendar year. Such claims of higher performance are key for the graphics chip industry since the games and video applications that they drive require intense processing power.
While declining to discuss specific prices for the R350 or the new Radeon chip, the executive noted that pricing pressures were weighing on the industry."
"There's a lot of concern about pricing, there's a lot of attention to pricing," he said.