ATI's 350/700 Mhz DDR R300 card disappears from Comutex floor

[Adul]

Looks like ATI was rather pissed. :Q

From Hard|ocp

All seemed to be pretty well till this morning when ATi realized that VIA was showing off the next-gen ATi R300 card in their suite here at Computex as reported by Anandtech yesterday. The card disappeared pretty quickly from the VIA booth at the hands of an ATi bandit. We have good information that ATi is beyond pissed about the situation. Heck, all VIA was doing was showing off the 700MHz DDR card running stable with an 8X AGP bus on a VIA KT400 reference board.

 

[GoodRevrnd]

From Anand:

Yesterday we brought you pictures of ATI's R300 running in VIA's booth and as we originally guessed it, VIA shouldn't have been showing off the card. It turns out that ATI ended up getting quite upset with VIA but in the end the running R300 card should have been embraced by ATI as some very good PR. Today a visit to VIA's booth revealed an ASUS GeForce2 card running in place of the R300.

To those at ATI that were worried about VIA bragging about having R300 in their suite, VIA did nothing of the sort. We recognized the board as something other than R200 or RV250 and thus inquired a bit further but for the most part VIA was simply calling it an 8X AGP card by ATI.

 

[Czar]

hehe way to go via

wasnt it something like this with the old radeon, the hardware was ready many months before the release but the drivers werent so they couldnt release it?

 

[ThisIsMatt]

Originally posted by: Czar
hehe way to go via

wasnt it something like this with the old radeon, the hardware was ready many months before the release but the drivers werent so they couldnt release it?

Never stopped them before ATI drivers are never done til 6 months after release

 

[RamIt]

Kudos to ATI for not releasing the card untill the drivers are finished. I am so sick of companys releasing shitty drivers............... Anyone remember the TNT 1 products, Matrox OGL - d3d wrapper, the list goes on and on.......

 

[Adul]

every company is guilty of it

 

[GTaudiophile]

I can see why ATi would be upset. Remember when Apple/Steve Jobs got really pissed at ATi for releasing the specs of some Apple product the day before MacWorld? ATi's equity hangs in the balance more or less.

What really worries me is the 10-layer PCB/.15mu rumor. I really like how small my Radeon 7500 is. I hope ATi can keep their boards compact and running cool, unlike nVidia's Ti4600 which got into Voodoo 5000 territory.

 

[RC7]

GTaudiophile -- excellent sig! Great car, with a genuine german hot chick sitting in it.

 

[Barrei]

Never mind the car look at the girl , now thats German Quality.

 

[ElFenix]

wow dude that chick is hot!

 

[Adul]

GTaudiofile, just because there is more layers doesnt mean the card will get larger. Hs you can see from the pics shown, you get an idea how big the card will be. Still kind of hard to judge.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
wow dude that chick is hot!

Oh yeah, nothing beats the combo of a hot blond in a BMW! My dad likes the pic so much that he had me put it on his desktop