Saw this story over at eetimes. What are your thoughts?
IMO it looks underwhelming for four main reasons:
1) It uses 287.5 M transistors?!? And takes up a die size of 462 mm^2 with a .18 micron process?!? How in the hell will they ever produce this chip in volume even with a shift to .15 or .13?
2) 32MB of memory seems like a fair amount now, but it will be out in 2003 at the earliest...
3) 75M polys/sec seems like a fair amount now, but 2 years from now... Also, this figure is probably a theoretical best case, who knows how many polys you can actually push with all of the features turned on.
4) 1.2 - 2.6 GPix/sec, see 2 & 3.
The embedded DRAM is a major plus for the bandwidth it provides, but this chip leaves me with more questions than answers...
IMO it looks underwhelming for four main reasons:
1) It uses 287.5 M transistors?!? And takes up a die size of 462 mm^2 with a .18 micron process?!? How in the hell will they ever produce this chip in volume even with a shift to .15 or .13?
2) 32MB of memory seems like a fair amount now, but it will be out in 2003 at the earliest...
3) 75M polys/sec seems like a fair amount now, but 2 years from now... Also, this figure is probably a theoretical best case, who knows how many polys you can actually push with all of the features turned on.
4) 1.2 - 2.6 GPix/sec, see 2 & 3.
The embedded DRAM is a major plus for the bandwidth it provides, but this chip leaves me with more questions than answers...
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