De perskabouters van Reuters brengen het nieuws dat ATi volgende week op de WinHEC in New Orleans hun nieuwe 'super-fast' Rage6 videochip aan zullen kondigen. Volgens Reuters heeft de chip 30 miljoen transistors en is-ie complexer dan een Pentium III (die heeft er 28 miljoen). Verder trekt de T&L engine van de Rage6 30 miljoen triangles per seconde. We gaan dus een leuk weekje tegemoet, want in komende dagen zullen ook nVidia en 3dfx hun next generation videokaarten presenteren (thanks hjs voor de tip):
Canada's ATI Technologies Inc. (Toronto:ATY.TO - news)(NasdaqNM:ATYT - news) will unveil its fastest and most powerful computer chip on Monday night, the opening act in a plan by the world's leading graphics chip maker to further expand its market share. With 30 million transistors -- the gates for electronic signals -- the new chip is twice as complex as Intel Corp.'s (NasdaqNM:INTC - news) Pentium III processor, ATI said. The result of work by 250 ATI engineers over 18 months, the chip will be launched at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in New Orleans. Until then, its name and function details are being kept under wraps.[...] A key feature of the new chip is geometry acceleration, a faster and more sophisticated calculation of the triangles represented in 3D objects.
ATI's chip will calculate as much as 30 million triangles a second, while a computer's central processing unit -- which performs instructions for the computer program -- can calculate just 1 to 5 million triangles per second. Such product advances add a barrier to market entry for upstart companies, ATI said.
De Rage6 gaat mogelijk 'Radeon' heten. Begin april registreerde ATi een stel domeinen met die naam.
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