GPU from Korea!!!

[Sunday]

It’ll be presented on upcoming ISSCC in February. Available information says:

A 36fps SXGA 3D Display Processor with a Programmable 3D Graphics
Rendering Engine

KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

A 3D display processor with a programmable 3D graphics rendering engine is
implemented. The integrated rendering engine supports Pixel Shader 3.0 and OpenGL
ES 2.0. A 3D image synthesis engine generates 3D images at 36fps. The die contains
1.74M gates and occupies 5×5mm2 in 0.18μm CMOS and dissipates 379mW at 1.8V.

 

[Razor1]

http://www.isscc.org/isscc/2007/ap/isscc2007.advanceprogram110306.pdf

isscc schedule

 

[Rufus]

A 36fps SXGA 3D Display Processor? Erm, what sort of metric is that? 36fps at what?

 

[digitalwanderer]

Erm, what sort of metric is that? 36fps at what?

A "3D image synthesis engine", can't you read?

Any clue on who the company putting it out is?

 

[Nick]

36fps at what?

36 Hz SXGA screen refresh? This seems to be a chip for embedded devices (hence OpenGL ES) so you have to put the specs in perspective.

 

[Razor1]

yeah google searched some of the names and specs of the chip, some college research project it seems, joint venture with philips possibly, but definitly looks like embedded stuff.

 

[Simon F]

yeah google searched some of the names and specs of the chip, some college research project it seems, joint venture with philips possibly, but definitly looks like embedded stuff.

At 5x5mm it presumably is not for the mobile phone end of the embedded market.

 

[akira888]

At 5x5mm it presumably is not for the mobile phone end of the embedded market.

It's implemented using a 180nm litho. process, so using modern technology it might be reasonably small enough for the phone market, assuming this is aimed at commercial applications (which it may not be).

 

[Simon F]

It's implemented using a 180nm litho. process, so using modern technology it might be reasonably small enough for the phone market,.

Ah yes. I completely overlooked the technology it was using. I wonder how small it would become with a more recent process.

 

[SiBoy]

yeah google searched some of the names and specs of the chip, some college research project it seems, joint venture with philips possibly, but definitly looks like embedded stuff.

There are two research groups at KAIST doing 3D work. Both have presented at ISSCC before.

This one:

http://ssl.kaist.ac.kr/ramp/

and this one:

http://vlsi2.kaist.ac.kr/

 

[hkultala]

A 36fps SXGA 3D Display Processor? Erm, what sort of metric is that? 36fps at what?

my guess:

fillrate to draw 36 times per a second a screen full of single-textured pixels(no overdraw) on SXGA resolution?