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Looks like the chipset codenames are now based on vacation spots. :-)
Supposed released date is Q3/2010. http://www.hardware-infos.com/news.p...3280&sprache=1 In other news, Powercolor decided to offer a version of the HD5870 with the EK waterblock preinstalled. http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news...n-hd-5870.aspx -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." |
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"First of One" wrote in message
Looks like the chipset codenames are now based on vacation spots. :-) Supposed released date is Q3/2010. http://www.hardware-infos.com/news.p...3280&sprache=1 Yes, but will the cards fit in any known case? |
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"First of One" wrote in message ... Looks like the chipset codenames are now based on vacation spots. :-) Supposed released date is Q3/2010. http://www.hardware-infos.com/news.p...3280&sprache=1 In other news, Powercolor decided to offer a version of the HD5870 with the EK waterblock preinstalled. http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news...n-hd-5870.aspx -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." Possible 28 nm process? It boggles the mind when you think of what it takes to expose masks at that small size. Does that use step and repeat x-ray exposure? You know, at those sizes quantum noise is becoming an increasing problem when using memory wells (capacitors) for storage of 1's and 0's. Or do they use flip-flops? Could you see getting Mil-Speck for those chips. They would never make it into outer space. Oh well, forget the Space Station, Moon missions, Mars, and what not. Forget those new laptops, get something bigger for the trip. Gee - how small will they go. I understand that the cost of setting up a fab to run these new processes is getting out of reach for all but a few manufacturers. It is interesting that AMD is dropping TSMC and going with Globalfoundries. We will be lucky if we still have competition in the manufacturing of these new processes with two or more foundries working at these new levels in the future. This stuff blows me away. The speed of electrons down a conductor is to slow, the size of light wavelengths is to large to use to make semiconductors. Silicone is to slow. (Here comes Gallium on Diamond?) What is next? William I digress, sorry. |
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"William" wrote in message
acquisition... Possible 28 nm process? It boggles the mind when you think of what it takes to expose masks at that small size. Does that use step and repeat x-ray exposure? You know, at those sizes quantum noise is becoming an increasing problem when using memory wells (capacitors) for storage of 1's and 0's. Or do they use flip-flops? The 28 nm is the GPU process, not the RAM chip process. The GPU contains cache, which typically uses flip-flops. Could you see getting Mil-Speck for those chips. They would never make it into outer space. Oh well, forget the Space Station, Moon missions, Mars, and what not. Forget those new laptops, get something bigger for the trip. Space-grade chips tend to be primitive because of the environmental hardening. The Pathfinder rovers used Intel 8088 CPUs, from what I remember reading Popular Mechanics. Gee - how small will they go. I understand that the cost of setting up a fab to run these new processes is getting out of reach for all but a few manufacturers. It is interesting that AMD is dropping TSMC and going with Globalfoundries. We will be lucky if we still have competition in the manufacturing of these new processes with two or more foundries working at these new levels in the future. AMD did have more advanced fabs than TSMC, so diverting GPU production to Globalfoundaries is a good idea. No point in reserving the most advanced processes for CPUs, which are becoming less and less important. :-) The interesting thing is, the GPU only accounts for some $50-$100 of the total price of the card. The RAM is now a bigger driver of graphics card capability and price, and it's outside the control of AMD, nVidia and Intel. Case in point: the HD5870 for all its greatness, has the same memory bandwidth as the GTX285. -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." |
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