ATi news: 24month product cycles, 256MB DDR-2 (1.4GHz?) 9800's, R400 info (Q1 2004 release?)

[Lonyo]

R400
0.13 micron process
Programmable Shader 3.0 (Pixel & Vertex)
PCI Express x16 (8GB/s bi-directional)
DirectX 10
Availability in End of 2003-Q1'04

http://www.vr-zone.com/#2944

DDR2 is the only way to go and Radeon 9800 Pro is expected to be fitted with 256MB of GDDR2 towards second half of the year when Samsung GDDR2 1.4Ghz is ready for sampling. ATi also has re-designed the memory controller of the Radeon 9800 Pro to improve memory access by decreasing the frequency of reading and writing of memory.

On Mar. 31, it confirmed that it will lengthen its product cycle to 24 months.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2003/tc2003044_3712_tc024.htm

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Interesting, WHERE'S MY AIW RADEON 10700 Pro

 

[CurtCold]

PICS??? LOL

Sounds nice, be better when it's here.

 

[ProviaFan]

So we should have PCI Express by the end of the year? Not bad, hmm... I'd still like to see plain ol' PCI-X come down to midrange workstation (and possibly lower).

 

[PCHPlayer]

(post bump in the spirit of eplebnista)

 

[T9D]

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[bgeh]

Originally posted by: xerosleep
WOW ATI lost over $8 million in the last quater! ........Can someone tell me how these companies keep going then?

And wow intel has 28 percent of the graphics market! I had no idea! Could you imagine what they could do if intel actually got it's butt in gear with graphics cards???

intel has 28% because of the intergrated graphics business. Remember Intel Extreme Graphics?

 

[DClark]

ATi keeps going because over the last eight years this has been their adjusted net income (in usd):

2002: $49.7 million
2001: $16.3 million loss
2000: $64.6 million
1999: $159.3 million
1998: $107.3 million
1997: $30.4 million
1996: $17.4 million
1995: $10.1 million

And as for the article about a lengthening of the development cycle, it may be accurate in that ATi's product cycle may lengthen, but over the past 4 years ATi has had a 12 month schedule (R300 announced July 2002, Rage 128 Pro announced April 1999; the R100 and R200 sandwiched in between), making me question the thought and research that has been put into the article.

I think what is more likely is that ATi will move to a cycle of "new core, 6 month refresh, 12 month refresh, 18 month new core" from the "new core, 6 month refresh, 12 month new core" that they've been doing for the past 4 years. If so, then look to see a .13 micron R350 in July instead of the R400. But as for any hard evidence, I hold little weight in the VR-Zone link considering that the information seems based off of a graph titled ATI Technologies GPU Roadmap guesstimate

 

[Keysplayr]

What is PCI Express?

 

[Lonyo]

PCI-Express is the new PCI bus that should offer bandwidth of up to 8GB, PCI is 133MB. It will give greater bandwidth for higher speed LAN (gigabit), more graphics card bandwidth (faster than AGP 8x) and will be the new "thing", since it's so much faster.

 

[ProviaFan]

What is PCI Express?

Some pics
More info