Merrill on ATI 80nm, NV has "peaked"

[Geo]

http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&action=m&board=15969433&tid=atyt&sid=15969433&mid=166329

ATI plans to offer a new mainstream GPU in the next few months, possibly on a half-shrink 80nm process, which could accelerate ATI’s market share recovery.

RV560?

Overall, we believe that NVIDIA’s competitive momentum has peaked,

 

[Jawed]

There's also RV540 as a candidate for 80nm, I suppose.

Depends whether we're talking about mainstream or performance mainstream, perhaps?

Jawed

 

[trumphsiao]

There's also RV540 as a candidate for 80nm, I suppose.

Depends whether we're talking about mainstream or performance mainstream, perhaps?

Jawed

RV540 ??? 8 pipe SM3.0 RV410 with no Ring-Bus???

 

[overclocked]

Now i get confused Jawed..
Wasnt the codenames RV530/X1300(90nm) and RV535(?)80nm?.

Anyway i would like to see the RV560 soon(90nm first and then 80nm also i guess??), looks to be the "diamond" of the whole R5x series!

 

[Jawed]

Yes, I've been thinking since I wrote that that RV535 is prolly the correct codename.

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2596

But it gets messy:

http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/showpost.php?p=615851&postcount=90

Ah well.

Jawed

 

[stevem]

This level of analysis is de rigueur of ML... (If that's not tautology.)