ATi moving to 80nm Process
The 90 Nanometre process is not as troublesome as many of you might think. It's a nice process if you design your chips well and, although ATI had troubles as its chip design had some flaws, they were easy to solve but very hard to spot. Well that is the hard thing about chips, something can always go wrong, just as it can in life.
Nvidia has yet to move to 90 but it is playing with its G71, 90 nanometre core. But it's still not time for that one. That’s next year. Nvidia is very happy with the new G70 A2 revision core. It's the new 7800 GTX 512 chips running at 550 MHz that everyone is talking about but few can afford.
ATI is working on its next generation products and is getting close to taping them out. We won't talk much about R580, the R520 successor as this one is still 90 nanometre but we want to give you a peak into a more distant future.
ATI has three chips based on the 80 nanometre process. One is called RV560 and will be the replacement for the just-announced RV530, Radeon X1600XT. The second two chips are codenamed RV505 and RV535. We know that the RV535 is an RV530 chip based on the 80 nanometre design while the RV505 is a low end chip based on the same process.
We know that those chips are scheduled for late second quarter 2006 so it will be quite a while before you see them in the stores. Still, it's interesting to know what is coming. Nvidia will start playing with 80 nanometre as well quite soon as this is the way to go.
The upcoming R580 will be based on 90 nanometre but we heard that it might bring some surprises and maybe even can get ATI its performance crown back. Stay tuned.
The 90 Nanometre process is not as troublesome as many of you might think. It's a nice process if you design your chips well and, although ATI had troubles as its chip design had some flaws, they were easy to solve but very hard to spot. Well that is the hard thing about chips, something can always go wrong, just as it can in life.
Nvidia has yet to move to 90 but it is playing with its G71, 90 nanometre core. But it's still not time for that one. That’s next year. Nvidia is very happy with the new G70 A2 revision core. It's the new 7800 GTX 512 chips running at 550 MHz that everyone is talking about but few can afford.
ATI is working on its next generation products and is getting close to taping them out. We won't talk much about R580, the R520 successor as this one is still 90 nanometre but we want to give you a peak into a more distant future.
ATI has three chips based on the 80 nanometre process. One is called RV560 and will be the replacement for the just-announced RV530, Radeon X1600XT. The second two chips are codenamed RV505 and RV535. We know that the RV535 is an RV530 chip based on the 80 nanometre design while the RV505 is a low end chip based on the same process.
We know that those chips are scheduled for late second quarter 2006 so it will be quite a while before you see them in the stores. Still, it's interesting to know what is coming. Nvidia will start playing with 80 nanometre as well quite soon as this is the way to go.
The upcoming R580 will be based on 90 nanometre but we heard that it might bring some surprises and maybe even can get ATI its performance crown back. Stay tuned.