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ATI to show R420 in pokey, smokey back rooms
And will make you sign NDAs in blood
By Fuad Abazovic: Monday 01 March 2004, 09:05
IT'S NOW certain that if you want to see the R420 at CeBIT that you
will have to sign a non disclosure agreement to enter an ATI secret
and heavily guarded rooms.
The INQUIRER won't see this, as we don't sign these baleful documents.
And anyroadmap, what's the point of being a journalist but not being
allowed to write about it?
ATI told its partners that no one is going to get any R420/R423 cards
because ATI wants to keep things very quiet before it's launched.
Consider yourself lucky if you even see the RV380 PCI Express part at
any ATI partner booth, but we guess that the Canadian firm will still
have to give its partners something to show.
The R420 card -- powered with GDDR 3 and not DDR 2 as we previously
said, even though GDDR3 is the same memory just clocked higher than
1000MHz -- is going to be a rare bird at the upcoming trade show.
ATI partners cannot be happy since they are spending serious money and
still not getting any real stuff to show. The fastest that they will
be able to show is still the R360, almost six months old and launched
at the fag end of October 2003.
If our own Paul Dutton is right that Nvidia has 16 real pipelines, ATI
might well lose the crown and the market share it seized from
Graphzilla.
Let's wait and see how this riddle unfolds. µ
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http://theinquirer.net/?article=14433
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ATI to show R420 in pokey, smokey back rooms
And will make you sign NDAs in blood
By Fuad Abazovic: Monday 01 March 2004, 09:05
IT'S NOW certain that if you want to see the R420 at CeBIT that you
will have to sign a non disclosure agreement to enter an ATI secret
and heavily guarded rooms.
The INQUIRER won't see this, as we don't sign these baleful documents.
And anyroadmap, what's the point of being a journalist but not being
allowed to write about it?
ATI told its partners that no one is going to get any R420/R423 cards
because ATI wants to keep things very quiet before it's launched.
Consider yourself lucky if you even see the RV380 PCI Express part at
any ATI partner booth, but we guess that the Canadian firm will still
have to give its partners something to show.
The R420 card -- powered with GDDR 3 and not DDR 2 as we previously
said, even though GDDR3 is the same memory just clocked higher than
1000MHz -- is going to be a rare bird at the upcoming trade show.
ATI partners cannot be happy since they are spending serious money and
still not getting any real stuff to show. The fastest that they will
be able to show is still the R360, almost six months old and launched
at the fag end of October 2003.
If our own Paul Dutton is right that Nvidia has 16 real pipelines, ATI
might well lose the crown and the market share it seized from
Graphzilla.
Let's wait and see how this riddle unfolds. µ
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http://theinquirer.net/?article=14433