few Pictures... (no one interested though...)

AGP Card is Axe (also here known as Avalanche.)
Official word is that so far this version works, but eats helluva lot of power and heats up a lot. Next revision should be coming from Infineon with in few weeks and should have much less power consumption and produce less heat.

But please remeber that Axe is pretty much dead as a product. Infineon is shutting down their eDRAM line up in the end of the year. Bitboys have still decided to make Axe as finished as possible because they don't have anything to lose anymore. They have already filled their part of Infineon deal.

what comes to their future plans on desktop market, I think it is too early to discuss about it. afaik, They have some fancy things going on, but I am not sure how soon they are going to continue those things. atm, they have announced to focus on Mobile stuff at least forawhile.

 

Avalanche isn't codename. It's their trademark. and when it's was founded from TESS, Axe was next upcoming chip from them and that's why that chip is generally known with two names.

Bitboys never themselves said that Axe will be called as Avalanche.
(btw, they have also trademarks like: Avalanche Dual and Arias.) First one is a easy guess (and not even guess for me.) and second one is mystery. (perhaps product name for this Mobile core/chip??)

 

no problem.

if there are something other things you might want to ask, I can also try to answer them. If the information is available and can be discussed.

 

no they don't pour money on it. Bitboys have fullfilled thier part of the deal. Infineon is now filling their part. So it's all kind of "income" from Infineon now.

they have already new fab partner and it will be announced in the near future.

 

at the moment it looks like they aren't going to make Desktop products at the near future.

moving chip with complexity of Axe on the very proprietary eDRAM process to company like Bitboys would take a way too much time to be still competitive.

as said they have something on the R&D line, but right now main focus is on the Mobile chip / core.