Megadrive1988
Veteran
Dave Orton
Orlando = former Lockheed Martin Real3D ?
Valley = ArtX / ATI West / Santa Clara, CA team
Marlborough = ATI's original team with probably some fresh engineers
(former Number 9 people are in there somewhere, too)
if indeed Xbox 2 is based on R600, and R600 is being made by all 3 ATI design teams, I expect some awesome things. I doubt Nvidia could match the combined efforts of former ArtX and Real3D engineers, not to mention Number 9 and ATI engineers also.
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.
Orlando = former Lockheed Martin Real3D ?
Valley = ArtX / ATI West / Santa Clara, CA team
Marlborough = ATI's original team with probably some fresh engineers
(former Number 9 people are in there somewhere, too)
if indeed Xbox 2 is based on R600, and R600 is being made by all 3 ATI design teams, I expect some awesome things. I doubt Nvidia could match the combined efforts of former ArtX and Real3D engineers, not to mention Number 9 and ATI engineers also.