AMD: R8xx Speculation
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More likely they'll just use one of the low-end designs in it
Hmmm maybe my geography has failed me but where is Juniper in Texas? There are small towns called Juniper located in Georgia and Michigan. There is a Lake Juniper in California. Cypress is part of Los Angeles(gotta love how every big suburb turn themselves into independent cities, so local politicians can call themselves mayor rather than councillor).
Hmmm there is also a Cypress (actually Cypress-Fairbanks) in Houston...
Botanically speaking a Cypress is a conifer, and so is a Juniper....oh could the codenames be trees, more specifically conifers not cities??? (..surely not, as if chip designers know anything about the natural world around them
)Finally also computing companies, ie Juniper Networks(HQ Sunnydale California) and Cypress Semiconductor(HQ San Jose California).
Edit: oh no! Botanically Juniper is a type of Cypress(Cupressaceae) which includes the Sequoia and Redwood(ie name for the biggest chip)...so Cypress is the family of GPUs and there are four variations?
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aaronspink
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I must say that naming Radeon chips with some other than Rxxx is nothing new since AMD took over. Here's the old AMD scheme for 80nm as was supposed RV610 - Antelope/Falcon and RV630 - Kohinorr/Orloff/Sefadu (http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6451)
And we all will remember them as usual by the code number
Cypress is not part of LA. It's not even in the same county
. It's independent small city and it's also borough of San Bernandino just next to Rialto 
... remember all that ATi Rialto bridge while nVidia developed it's nv40 strictly for AGP.@Lukfi
Yes i know these are "board codenames" but it would be flucking confusing if AMD rearrange the whole good developed scheme, with tradition est.2000
It would be an imbecil way if they really done that, but looking at AMD it wouldn't be to much of surprise. It's they prerogative :tsss: Well i simply don't want to cope with it so i hope for the best.
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I heavily doubt so. The Fusion GPU has been specced to use <10W, something that current lowends/notebook GPUs don't even reach.
A normal lowend would use about 25-30W inclusive of RAM, no?
And a memory controller, I'd guess.
Greatest apologies! As said above my geography is really poor.....if they are using tree names though should be able to hold my own...Cypress is not part of LA. It's not even in the same county
Something like(family Cupressaceae/Cypress):
x2 ??
performance ??
mainstream Juniper
entry ??
igp ??
fusion ??
Available other names to use are things like redwood, cedar, sequoia - all big impressive trees.
Problem with above though is in that family they are generally large trees, and the smallest common one is the juniper, which leaves no room for codenames for the parts below. Of course the possibility is high whoever in management thought this up really didnt know what they were doing...
Re: x2 part could be in there, making it relatively simple....including igp is a bit more problematic as hasnt the radeon 4200 just been released? another part so soon would be hard to pull off. Fusion....oh how amd badly needs this part, the need is nicely matched though by difficulty in accomplishing the task.
Anyone at computex?.....seems both camps have a bunch of new (unreleased) stuff at the show.
Edit: is definitely trees, more details very soon...appears RV740 life will be short..."cypress" as family name might not make sense either, might be a specific chip as well
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Hmmm... Is this RV740 based?
http://www.techpowerup.com/95742/AM...ded_Graphics_Chips_Launches_Radeon_E4690.htmlTechPowerUp said:AMD announced the ATI Radeon E4690 graphics processor unit (GPU) designed to enable a whole level of new reality for embedded graphics applications with more than triple the 3D graphics performance of prior AMD embedded products. Arcade system manufacturers will appreciate the long term support and lower cost of placing the GPU chip directly on the motherboard instead of a separate add-in graphics card. This product will enable digital signage manufacturers to decode and play multiple high-definition videos in hardware, offloading all the decoding from the CPU. Casino system manufacturers will be amazed by triple the graphics performance to help attract players while increasing overall entertainment value with incredibly realistic 3D graphics, plus two-monitor support.
* The ATI Radeon E4690 GPU is packed with the latest graphics features, including support for Microsoft DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.0.
* The second-generation AMD Unified Video Decoder (UVD 2.0) includes hardware acceleration of H.264 and VC-1 high-definition (HD) video as well as MPEG-2, enabling multiple HD video streams and freeing the CPU for other tasks.
* The ATI Radeon E4690 is designed to simplify board design and speed time-to-market by incorporating 512 MB of 700 MHz GDDR3 graphics memory on chip.
* The ATI Radeon E4690 comes with AMD’s commitment of 5 years of planned supply availability. Technical support is provided a dedicated team of application engineering experts......
Jawed
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http://www.amd.com/us-en/ConnectivitySolutions/ProductInformation/0,,50_2330_14884_16009,00.html
55nm, 128-bit bus - seems like RV730.
Jawed
55nm, 128-bit bus - seems like RV730.
Jawed
leoneazzurro
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Cypress is not part of LA. It's not even in the same county
Of course, however, Rialto bridge has more to do with this:
http://airportshotelsandparking.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/rialto-bridge.jpg
As long as they're staying with 256bit membus, they can't really go much higher
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