AMD opens design of X1950XT

[Arty]

Courtesy HKEPC

When you are looking for a high-end graphic card, says Radeon X1950XT for example, you may curious different brands have the same design of the model. They always look like the same, but definitely may not the same price. Indeed, most of the high-end models are manufactured by the same companies only, namely NVIDIA and AMD (formerly ATI). However, next time when you have a look to Radeon X1950XT, don’t overlook the special editions, they may no longer the same. AMD has announced its plan to let different manufactures to design and manufacture its special Radeon X1950XT edition. It is expected these special edition may eventually has a lower cost than the official edition so as to enhancing the competitive efficiency.

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[Skrying]

Interesting, but on a now aging card. It'd be nice if this was done for say R600 and AMD would provide any help necessary to its AIB in making their new designs.

 

[Arty]

Same point echoed by HKEPC and AIB manufacturers

Nonetheless, as the next-generation R600, which has a fully support of Direct X10, will be releasing in Q1 2007, analyst argued that the market of Radeon X1950XT is near the end. In fact, not really much manufacturers are willing to design its own edition as it is costly to open a manufacturing line.

I think its more of a forward looking move wrt R600 derivatives.

 

[neliz]

I think its more of a forward looking move wrt R600 derivatives.

It's beyond being fabless...

but it's ultimately amd taking it's hands off of the production of the chips altogether..