- Jan 13, 2003
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From <b>Beyond 3D</b>
Digitimes has a report stating that ATI will have begun to mass produce their latest generation 3D graphics core, R420, by Q1 2004. The suggestion is that R420 will be a TSMC 130nm low-k based, 160M transistor product, supporting AGP8X and GDDR3 memory.
As we’ve previously indicated ATI are gearing up for a big push with PCI express and Digitimes are suggesting that R420 will have a refresh with R423. ATI’s stance is that performance will double every 18 months, so the expectation is that R420 should be somewhere in the region of twice the theoretical performance of 9700 PRO, while Digitimes suggests that R423 will be twice the performance of 9800 PRO which may indicate that the R423 PCI-Express refresh may have a little more to it than just the PCI-Express interface added.
Digitimes also suggests that some of ATI's lower end parts will be based on the 110nm fabrication process however when ATI's Rick Bergman was asked in a recent web chat session what was next for ATI after 130nm low-k he stated that 90nm was next and ATI were woking on solution based on this process for the latter half of 2004.
Finally Digitimes points out that NVIDIA's NV40 is expected to make it debut at roughly the same time and that we can only assume that it is 130nm based with an AGP8X interface. Given the location of the Digitimes publication the fact they seem to know few details about NV40 is as good an indication as you are going to get for now that NV40 is being fabbed at IBM!
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Digitimes has a report stating that ATI will have begun to mass produce their latest generation 3D graphics core, R420, by Q1 2004. The suggestion is that R420 will be a TSMC 130nm low-k based, 160M transistor product, supporting AGP8X and GDDR3 memory.
As we’ve previously indicated ATI are gearing up for a big push with PCI express and Digitimes are suggesting that R420 will have a refresh with R423. ATI’s stance is that performance will double every 18 months, so the expectation is that R420 should be somewhere in the region of twice the theoretical performance of 9700 PRO, while Digitimes suggests that R423 will be twice the performance of 9800 PRO which may indicate that the R423 PCI-Express refresh may have a little more to it than just the PCI-Express interface added.
Digitimes also suggests that some of ATI's lower end parts will be based on the 110nm fabrication process however when ATI's Rick Bergman was asked in a recent web chat session what was next for ATI after 130nm low-k he stated that 90nm was next and ATI were woking on solution based on this process for the latter half of 2004.
Finally Digitimes points out that NVIDIA's NV40 is expected to make it debut at roughly the same time and that we can only assume that it is 130nm based with an AGP8X interface. Given the location of the Digitimes publication the fact they seem to know few details about NV40 is as good an indication as you are going to get for now that NV40 is being fabbed at IBM!
<b>I help because you suck.</b>
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