Supposed NV40 & R420 pics

[Megadrive1988]

That does look like the Micron logo. This in my opinion is just another hint that Micron will be fabbing the X-Box 2 VPU and possibly R500 VPU's for the PC.

Crucial (A Micron company) sells R300 based graphic cards. ATI and Micron worked together on the GDDR-3 spec. Now we see a VPU with a Micron logo on it.


The consequences of a cozy releationship between Micron and ATI could lead to intresting things. What if Micron with its "Yukon processor" found some synergy with ATI technology?

Here is a link on Microns Yukon processor.

Great post.


Micron also has the Rendition Verite team--Makers of the FIRST good 3D accelerator for PCs. the Verite V1000 which pre-dates the 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics.

Micron and Rendition made the never-released V4400E, the 4th generation
Verite with like 12 MB of eDRAM on chip, which had 120M~125M transistors, in 1999!

ATI-Micron would be fantastic and I would think it leaves a little room for hope that there could be a significant amount of eDRAM in R500 and therefore XBox 2's VPU. At least that is one possible approach for improving performance.

Even without eDRAM, Micron fabbing the R500 and R500-based XBox 2 VPU sounds a whole helluva lot better than TSMC.

 

[hoom]

Are you sure its PCI & not PCI Express?

 

[Sage]

[quote="Megadrive1988Micron and Rendition made the never-released V4400E, the 4th generation
Verite with like 12 MB of eDRAM on chip, which had 120M~125M transistors, in 1999! [/quote] AND H/W TnL. Oh and you forgot to mention that the V1000 could do 32-bit rendering.... that was PRE-Voodoo 1. Best damned card I've ever had, there's nothing I'd love more than to see another Rendition chip, but I don't see that ever happening

 

[David G.]

The Micron symbol exposes the fact that there is memory present in that chip .

The mobile ATi chips already have integrated memory on them .

This represents a newer design with DDR-II memory on it or better GDDR3 that it's said to be developed by Micron .

So , Micron embeded memory = Micron symbol present .

The thing that is clear is that the design showed belongs to mobile applications .

 

[KimB]

Bah, yet another example why you should never trust the Inquirer. I decided a long time ago to never even follow a link to that site. Why should I give them hits if I don't like the way they conduct the site?

 

[David G.]

The fact that there is still memory outside the chip packge shows that this is still an early development card .

 

[Gunhead]

The Yukon approach looks very interesting.

Wasn't 3DRAM already a step in this direction? IIRC, those memory chips were capable of doing simple ops (like Z compare, alpha blend) internally, eliminating a lot of transactions and thus saving precious memory bandwidth? -- I guess it was expensive because I've only seen it used on some Sun graphics cards. (Which are half-antique anyway, despite what Tag believes )