The NEXT LAST R600 Rumours & Speculation Thread

ill be disappointed if r600 isnt at least 30% faster across the board.

 

If you're asking based on that awful quality Youtube video, when Ruby's snowboarding she actually has the hood up on her coat. You can briefly see it on one of the close up shots as she's coming down the mountain. The front of the hair sticking out of the hood is actually moving in the wind. At least that's what I think I can see amongst all the macroblocks.

 

I will be very very surprised if high end R6xx part on 65nm will be available before end of 2007 since now TSCM 65nm hi speed process has poor yield and nobody uses it in large scale production...

 

LOL for coining a new word..a hairlmet. I think I'll be using that in RL as soon as possible I know a woman with a hairlmet!

 

Well that's a reasonable expectation given that they know exactly what they're aiming for and have known for quite a long time.

Heh, as long as you say it behind her back

 

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38300

Can somebody clear things up for me?
If ATI for example were never merge with AMD or in other words bought up by AMD.

ATI then would never had opportunity to make sudden change and move directly to 65nm tech without AMD.

 

AMD's 65nm SOI process has nothing to do with TSMC's 65nm tech.
So, ATI R600 65nm derivatives would still be a reality, takeover or not.

 

The reason I ask is because the Inq quoted "since AMD is currently in various partnership deals with IBM and so Sony, Toshiba, Chartered, UMC and of course, TSMC."

I wasn't sure that this information was important to know that AMD has partnership deals. Or why theinquirer has to phrase that?

 

It's not relevant, AMD stated that ATI chips will continue to be built by TSMC and UMC, just like before, when the merger happened.

 

Thanks

[Edit: But still, AMD might have some kind effect on ATI to speed up the process.]

 

Fuad is now saying that there will also be a Lasso version of R600 (external).

 

The way I've understood it, Lasso is independent of the card - as in, you should be able to stick pretty much any, if not any, PCIe card to it

 

Yes, but the leaked picture showed a low-profile X850. The Asus XG Station also has the ability to house relatively low-profile cards only. Maybe I shouldnt read too much into it.

 

OCZ wants in on R600

The spokesperson was quick to state that it has no exclusivity deals in place and that the company also has a very strong working relationship with ATI (and now AMD), mainly thanks to the CrossFire certification programme on some of its memory modules.

OCZ hopes to make full use of this relationship in order to start shipping products based on the eagerly anticipated and somewhat delayed R600 GPU.

News Source: Bit-Tech

 

And nVidia stated that unified shaders are not the way to go yet...

 

http://translate.google.com/transla...&hl=it&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=/language_tools

 

They didn't necessarily state that all ATI/AMD chips will be built by a specific company. TSMC could be handling the midrange parts while IBM(for example) creates the high end part. If the midrange parts are getting physically larger more fab space would be required.

I'd still consider it possible that UVD, HDMI/audio, or possibly the ROPs could be pulled off of the core and included as a separate chip on the cards. Those in turn could be manufactured on 65nm by a company other than TSMC. High clockspeeds aren't really required for that functionality so including them onto the main core wouldn't make a whole lot of sense, similar to NVIO.

 

Thats more than a month old, since then we've had X2900 yada yada yada ..

 

That's 8900 Ultra for you mister!

/me runs