3dfx start productie VSA-100 chip

Bij Voodoo Extreme staat een link naar dit bericht bij Silicon Investor waarin gemeld wordt dat 3dfx begonnen is met de productie van haar VSA-100 chip, het hart van de Voodoo4 en 5 kaarten die nog steeds gepland staan voor een release in April.

Production on VSA-100 has started...

Just got word about VSA-100 from Scott Sellers. He said it was okay to go "on the record" with this info so here you go...(as usual this is not edited so nobody can accuse me of slanting the info)

...we are demonstrating our very first silicon spin for VSA-100, what we call internally our "A0" spin. Due to some silicon processing problems, the A0 spin has been reduced to fairly low operating frequencies, in addition to suffering some video ramdac problems. As a result, we opted not to show the VSA-100 in public at CeBit and showed it only to select members of the press and media. But some of the recent negative feedback on the net, in particular the disappointment on the frequency being run and the video quality issues, are known issues and are expected from the silicon processing problem inherent in A0. Now on to the good news. First and foremost, the processing problem is completely understood and has already been addressed. In fact, production wafers are now flowing through the fab for our final production version of VSA-100, which we believe will be the A1 silicon spin. In addition, from a functionality point of view, we are very happy with A0. The part is extremely functional and robust, with only a few minor bugs which will be fixed in the A1 silicon spin. All of the major new functionality is working perfectly, including 32-bit color rendering, texture compression, full-scene anti-aliasing, T-buffer capabilities, as well as all the multi-chip SLI and FSAA capabilities. As a result, software development has been able to go full speed and thus we expect software to be very robust for shipping product. We believe we are still on track for April production for the first VSA-100 products. While the nature of the processing problem with A0 is disappointing in that it makes early demonstrations less than spectacular, we feel very good about the health of the A1 product and as a result silicon production has begun...

Thanks Insane voor de tip!