Muse and Athena

[Rob Evans]

IMG's presentation of their yearly results has a slide at http://www.imgtec.com/Investors/Presentations/Prelim06/index.asp?Slide=24 that mentions Muse and Athena as being Portable/Desktop Computing cores.

It looks like they are intending to return to PC 3D graphics - presumably through integrated chipsets (with Intel?)

Rob.

 

[_xxx_]

Ooohh, nice find!

 

[Mariner]

The only problem being no scale on the date axis so who knows when these products are planned?

That chart seems to indicate that SGX cores are now available (March 2006) but is that just the finalised design or is there actually a hardware sample?

 

[rwolf]

IMG's presentation of their yearly results has a slide at http://www.imgtec.com/Investors/Presentations/Prelim06/index.asp?Slide=24 that mentions Muse and Athena as being Portable/Desktop Computing cores.

It looks like they are intending to return to PC 3D graphics - presumably through integrated chipsets (with Intel?)

Rob.

Perhaps Intel will buy them.

 

[Demirug]

Athena? Ageia used this name for the PhysX chip in the SDK, too.

 

[Simon F]

Athena? Ageia used this name for the PhysX chip in the SDK, too.

Well, there are only a finite number of greek Gods/esses

 

[Kaotik]

Athena? Ageia used this name for the PhysX chip in the SDK, too.

...and AMD on some K8 core IIRC

 

[no-X]

And Matrox too (Matrox Athena, 1994, one of the first 3D accelerators)

 

[Lazy8s]

SGX has been getting demonstrated in silicon prototypes since last year.

 

[Mariner]

Well, there are only a finite number of greek Gods/esses

Time to move on to a new pantheon!

 

[amk]

The only problem being no scale on the date axis so who knows when these products are planned?

I'd assume that the slide refers to the coming financial year. I don't suppose it's to scale though. Nor is it clear what part of a product's lifecycle the bubbles refer to, although it clearly isn't retail availability.

 

[Ailuros]

Well, there are only a finite number of greek Gods/esses

Who rang?