ATI R300 team

[Love_In_Rio]

I supposse that an ATI team was developing R400 while another team developed R300 ( were they de dolphin team also ? ). Which architectures have they designed since R300 ?.

 

[BRiT]

AFAIR, the design teams have been interspersed since then, so it's no longer Team A and Team B and Team C.

 

[AnarchX]

Other team? You mean ArtX, who were bought 2000 by ATi?
Imo they do not develope R300, because it is an evolution of R200, what is visible in some details.

Maybe some members of the "classic ArtX team" were involved in the development of Hollywood (Wii).

 

[Love_In_Rio]

digging in the web if found this in the wiki:

"The R3xx chip was designed by ATI's west coast team (formerly ArtX Inc.), and the first product to use it was the Radeon 9700 PRO (internal ATI code name: R300 - internal ArtX codename: Khan), launched in August 2002."

Also it seems R200 was developed by the east team, that started to develope R400 just after.

So, despite the teams having more mixed work nowadays, wouldn´t it be logical to think in R700 as the next west team main architecture ?

 

[MrGaribaldi]

Looking at an old interview here on B3D, here, we find the following quote:

What we are now moving towards is actually a unified design team of both east and west coast, that will develop our next generations of platforms, from R300 to R400 to R500 to R600 to R700, instead of a ping-pong ball between them both. Within that one organisation we need to think about where do we architecturally innovate and where do we not in order to hit the right development cycles to keep the leadership, but it will be one organisation.

If you dissect in, for example, to the R600 product, with is our next, next generation, that development team is all three sites - Orlando, Silicon Valley, Marlborough – but the architectural centre team is in the Valley, as you point out, but all three are part of that organisation.

 

[BRiT]

So, despite the teams having more mixed work nowadays, wouldn´t it be logical to think in R700 as the next west team main architecture ?

No. See my previous reply and MrGaribaldi's reply.

 

[Megadrive1988]

Looking at an old interview here on B3D, here, we find the following quote:

thanks for linking to that, couldn't find that interview other than from Google cache and Yahoo.

also:

So the R600 family will mainly be centred primarily in the Valley and Orlando with a little bit from Marlborough, and then the R800 would be more unified.

unified meaning, not unified shaders (already have that) but, obviously, unified development across all ATI teams. Although development of R800 could be moving forward differently now, who knows, that interview is ~3 years old.