Volgens eerdere ATi roadmaps (zie dit nieuwsbericht) zouden we op zeer korte termijn verblijd worden met een Maxx versie van ATi Radeon. Deze kaart zou een dual-chip versie versie worden zoals ATi eerder deed met haar Rage Fury. Zoals je wellicht nog weet was die kaart echter niet compatible met Win2000. De situatie is nu ongeveer hetzelfde; onder Windows 2000 is het niet mogelijk om gebruik te maken van ATi's dual-chip techniek waardoor je dus geen enkele performance winst behaalt. De eerst volgende ontwikkeling in de Radeon serie zal nu (volgens deze informatie in december plaatsvinden in de vorm van de Radeon 2.
After checking with ATI, Rage3D has made corrections to the previously published roadmap. According to the new data, ATI isn't going to release the RADEON MAXX board.
Another confirmation that there will be no dual-chip version of RADEON was a letter received by Rage3D from a person who talked to an ATI engineer. According to that information the company is now in process of developing a specialized bridge that will allow using two RADEON X chips. Today that task is conducted solely by software driver and ATI was unable to write such a driver for Windows 2000. Most probably that was the reason for cancelling RADEON MAXX. Who would buy an expensive hardware that in future would have only half its power under Win2K?
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