Megadrive1988 said:
yeah I am very much interested in Parhelia 2, PowerVR Series 5, as well as the sucessor to 3DLabs P10.
Parhelia2? you can prepare yourself a looooooong wait. at least project that was known as "pitou" and was supposed to be successor of Parhelia, was contemted to death around a year ago. it is certain that Matrox is working on something, but I doubt it being even for so called mainstream. Most likely it will be a bit faster than parhelia and it might have some new features as well, but I really doubt it being full blown DX9 PS2 / VS 2 core. Matrox has stated that it has moved it's focus on niche markets like High definition TFTs, Multidisplay enviroments, Medical and even Military based markets. (they certainly have best foothold on those, which will most likely provide steady income for them. That again fixes steadily the damage they had with Parhelia, but IMO it's gonna take few more years before we see them back with another try.)
and the Series 5... Only time shows what's gonna happen. at least they are late from the latest date I heard, but that does not mean they would have missed the spot. In any case, every day without it being out, shortens the time it will have in spotlight.
successor of P10. It is certainly coming, but will be there any products based on it targetted to gamers market, is completely different thing. Also time shows that.
other underdogs:
S3 should really horry up getting Delta Chrome out. if their latest roadmap still is right, with in 3 quaters we should see at least paper launch of Delta Chrome successor. it's specs aren't in my knowledge, but at least PS/VS 3 should sound reasonable after PS/VS 2 chip.
XGI definetely works with Volari Successor, that's for sure. if it will be first SIS chip that can do Bilinear right, is still unknown.
just my 2 cents...
(like anyone would really care?)