Dave Orton Questions
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I'll be talking to Godfrey Chung, who runs the video / consumer group, about AIW separately. Not sure if they'll be ready to talk about anything yet. Rest assured I know there is a R420 AIW product coming and I believe it should have advancements from current AIW products.
R 600 should be at theorical design stage if not done already. What is the goal for that chip? Same philosophy than for R300 ?
Oh and from a commercial point of view, why ATI seems to be so shy in europe? Why dont we have the same upgrade program than north america customers for exemple ?
Oh and from a commercial point of view, why ATI seems to be so shy in europe? Why dont we have the same upgrade program than north america customers for exemple ?
orton:
Linux support not as good as NV, when will they catch up on ease of installation and when will features for linux catch up to features on windows.
aiw:
How much pressure has ati been under to improve/add DRM control to its products. Will features be implemented in hardware or software? *cough* any chance of disabling such features *cough*
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epic
Linux support not as good as NV, when will they catch up on ease of installation and when will features for linux catch up to features on windows.
aiw:
How much pressure has ati been under to improve/add DRM control to its products. Will features be implemented in hardware or software? *cough* any chance of disabling such features *cough*
later,
epic
ask him if he can give us some X800 bench 
More seriously, can he tell us how are divided the engineers for the XBX 2, GC 2, GPU parts? Does he think that the console contracts will have some impact on the GPUs schedule? Or does he think he has enough manpower?
What is for him the next big advancement in 3D technology?
More seriously, can he tell us how are divided the engineers for the XBX 2, GC 2, GPU parts? Does he think that the console contracts will have some impact on the GPUs schedule? Or does he think he has enough manpower?
What is for him the next big advancement in 3D technology?
VVukicevic
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I would love to ask him what ATI's plans are regarding Linux support, and how soon we can expect their abysmal binary drivers to improve (at least to a level comparable to nvidia's, hopefully beyond -- specifically on stability, performance, and future-looking kernel support).
Also, ask him to comment on their highly competitive relationship with nVidia, and whether he feels things have gone too far at times, or whether it's a healthy competition driving innovation forward.
Also, ask him to comment on their highly competitive relationship with nVidia, and whether he feels things have gone too far at times, or whether it's a healthy competition driving innovation forward.
1. Why was the f-buffer never exposed in the drivers? Apparently the application needed to be aware of it for it to work. While not exposing it in DirectX is understandable it should be easy to do in OpenGL. As a sidenote, the PS2b profile seems like it could be implemented with a f-buffer approach, could the R350 support PS2b?
2. Does he think the professional market, i.e pre visualisation and rendering acceleration for films and broadcasting, will be important going forward? If so, how does that impact ATIs development of better linux and OpenGL drivers?
3. Should we get our hopes up for proper shadow map percentage closer filtering in future products from ATI?
2. Does he think the professional market, i.e pre visualisation and rendering acceleration for films and broadcasting, will be important going forward? If so, how does that impact ATIs development of better linux and OpenGL drivers?
3. Should we get our hopes up for proper shadow map percentage closer filtering in future products from ATI?
pocketmoon66
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Have ATI ever concidered creating a back-end profile for Cg ?
When will we see UK prices reflect $ prices, i.e. stop ripping off the UK!
What are the Big Issues facing ATI, and others, in trying to develop the next gen hardware ? Can all the heat/power/size problems be solved just by changing process ?
When will we see UK prices reflect $ prices, i.e. stop ripping off the UK!
What are the Big Issues facing ATI, and others, in trying to develop the next gen hardware ? Can all the heat/power/size problems be solved just by changing process ?
Do you think that API and hardware evolution has either stabilized or offered enough flexibility so that early adoption of technology still allows for a large measure of "future proofness"?
(Meaning that newly introduced features will still produce adequate performance when they are extensively implemented and are not superceded by another feature set change before being adopted.)
Do you believe it is possible to lessen the growth in the need for heat dissipation and wattage so that they don't become serious limiters of performance growth?
(Meaning that newly introduced features will still produce adequate performance when they are extensively implemented and are not superceded by another feature set change before being adopted.)
Do you believe it is possible to lessen the growth in the need for heat dissipation and wattage so that they don't become serious limiters of performance growth?
A rather long question (or two) whether there are any plans to introduce an IP licensing scheme for the PDA/mobile market (see NVIDIA/AR10), how does he see ATI's position today in that market segment and what are his evaluations for future prospects for it for the foreseeable future.
Well, he's not going to answer detailed questions on announced products but one could ask him to elaborate on the deals ATI have with Nintendo and M$ respectively.
Depending on the answer he gives one could try to pry some more info out of him by commenting that there have been hints that the ATI/Nintendo deal is for a next gen console part. We already know what the ATI/M$ deal is about.
Also, I'm not really sure he's the right guy to ask but with all this talk about video editing being supported on the new gfx cards I was wondering if some of these gfx chip manufactures won't do some Photoshop accelleration soon. You should at least be able to do previews with these cards. A lot of people would be interested in something like that.
Depending on the answer he gives one could try to pry some more info out of him by commenting that there have been hints that the ATI/Nintendo deal is for a next gen console part. We already know what the ATI/M$ deal is about.
Also, I'm not really sure he's the right guy to ask but with all this talk about video editing being supported on the new gfx cards I was wondering if some of these gfx chip manufactures won't do some Photoshop accelleration soon. You should at least be able to do previews with these cards. A lot of people would be interested in something like that.
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