look at this.
I'm very skeptical (integrated graphics should require new socket, no?), but it would be amazing if true. Comments?
Edit:
I took the liberty of cleaning up the google translation, although there's no guarantee I didn't mess something up:
"Barcelona with integrated R600 graphics.
In regards the chipset/complete PC market, a striking difference shows up between Intel and AMD - Intel offers its own graphics integrated into the chip set, while until recently this has been something AMD lacked.
We were told by a safe source that around the 23/24 of April this will change. Speculations over the delay of the R600 were already many, but now it seems the reason is finally clarified. AMD/ATI plans to offer the R600 and the low cost RV610 and RV630 variants, but also a K8L (Barcelona) with integrated R600 graphics. Just like AMD integrated the memory controller into K8, AMD now wants to integrate the GPU. This chip will profit from shorter signal paths as well as faster internal communication between the GPU and CPU. The graphics chip integrated with the K8L is RV630, an R600 derivative. The R600 core shares DDR2 RAM and can allocate upon need up to 512 megabytes of main memory. AMD plans also to enable crossfire ability when more than one GPU equipped processor is in a system. These GPU?s will make use of NUMA to share memory banks and increase bandwidth, and will gain more bandwidth when the transition to DDR3 takes place. AMD calls this concept GoC (Graphics on chip) and CoC (Crossfire on chip), K8L-V is the codename of these hybrid chips.
The delay of the R600/RV610/RV630 launch is therefore come due to unforeseeable difficulties with the integration of the graphics chip to the processor. AMD decided to launch the entire R600 family, including low cost and GoC derivatives, at the same time. Among other issues, the communication protocol was revised several times to work in tandem with Crossfire. Impressively, crossfire between an GoC chip and a PCI-express graphics card will be possible. In this configuration, both graphics chips share the DDR4 memory from the graphics card, although main memory can be used when needed. The First systems with a K8L-V chip should be available to buy at the end of 2007 in large quantities."
Amazing if true, but I'm skeptical
I'm very skeptical (integrated graphics should require new socket, no?), but it would be amazing if true. Comments?
Edit:
I took the liberty of cleaning up the google translation, although there's no guarantee I didn't mess something up:
"Barcelona with integrated R600 graphics.
In regards the chipset/complete PC market, a striking difference shows up between Intel and AMD - Intel offers its own graphics integrated into the chip set, while until recently this has been something AMD lacked.
We were told by a safe source that around the 23/24 of April this will change. Speculations over the delay of the R600 were already many, but now it seems the reason is finally clarified. AMD/ATI plans to offer the R600 and the low cost RV610 and RV630 variants, but also a K8L (Barcelona) with integrated R600 graphics. Just like AMD integrated the memory controller into K8, AMD now wants to integrate the GPU. This chip will profit from shorter signal paths as well as faster internal communication between the GPU and CPU. The graphics chip integrated with the K8L is RV630, an R600 derivative. The R600 core shares DDR2 RAM and can allocate upon need up to 512 megabytes of main memory. AMD plans also to enable crossfire ability when more than one GPU equipped processor is in a system. These GPU?s will make use of NUMA to share memory banks and increase bandwidth, and will gain more bandwidth when the transition to DDR3 takes place. AMD calls this concept GoC (Graphics on chip) and CoC (Crossfire on chip), K8L-V is the codename of these hybrid chips.
The delay of the R600/RV610/RV630 launch is therefore come due to unforeseeable difficulties with the integration of the graphics chip to the processor. AMD decided to launch the entire R600 family, including low cost and GoC derivatives, at the same time. Among other issues, the communication protocol was revised several times to work in tandem with Crossfire. Impressively, crossfire between an GoC chip and a PCI-express graphics card will be possible. In this configuration, both graphics chips share the DDR4 memory from the graphics card, although main memory can be used when needed. The First systems with a K8L-V chip should be available to buy at the end of 2007 in large quantities."
Amazing if true, but I'm skeptical
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