Mr Kwok Yuen Ho, the CEO and chairman of ATi Technologies has given a speech during the press announcement and presentation of the Radeon 9000 and 9700 at China today. Here are some of the interesting highlights during the Q&A session with Mr Kwok :
* Based on the Radeon 9700 technology with parallel connection of up to 256, ATi is currently examining the possibility of having Dual Radeon 9700 VPUs on a card. Also Quad display outputs is possible with such card. However, there is no official schedule on when such card will be launched.
* Radeon 9000 for mobile segment will be released within 2 months and the mobile edition of Radeon 9700 will be taped out in time to come.
* The Lite edition of Radeon 9700 which is possibly the Radeon 9500 will be targeting at the mainstream market will have the number of rendering pipelines and memory channels reduced by half.
* ATi does not have plan to make Radeon 9700 to be based on 0.13 micron process but the next generation R350 will and it is scheduled to be launch by first half of next year and supports DirectX 9.1
* ATi is currently partnering with TSMC as their main foundries but UMC will be producing for them as well.
Read the unbablefished artical(japanese) <a target="_blank" href="http://www.watch.impress.co.jp"> HERE </a>
Read the bablefished artical (english) <a target="_blank" href="http://babelfish.altavista.com/urltrurl?lp=ja_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.watch.impre ss.co.jp%2Fpc%2Fdocs%2F2002%2F0806%2Fkaigai01.htm" > HERE </a>
Read VR-zone`s artical <a target="_blank" href="http://www.vr-zone.com/#2575"> HERE </a>
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