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ATI is shaping up for releasing 80 nanometre chips |
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Written by Mavke
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Thursday, 10 August 2006 |
ATI says it is working hard on ramping up the production of its first 80 nanometre chips. September is the time for a lot of new refreshes, we hear. The first to come is the RV505 chip which is set to replace the existing RV515 core and to coexist with the current Radeon X300 cards. The new chip is built on an 80 nanometre process. ATI plans to follow up with RV560 and RV570 chips to add a bit more poke. These chips have to fight NVIDIA's offerings in the mainstream market. The RV570 core will even work in pairs and you can fit two of them on one single PCB. This card will still be powerless to fight the GeForce 7950 GX2 but that is a completely different league.
 ATI is shaping up for releasing 80 nanometre chips
The new old R580+ chip still remains 90 nanometre but the new R600 core will get the optical cosmetic shrink to 80 nanometre. If the yields are good, 80 nanometre chips are cheaper as you can put more of them on a single wafer. NVIDIA is still quiet on its 80 nanometre plans. Somehow there is no need yet for NVIDIA to be worried about any shrink to 80 nanometre as their current G71 chips are quite sufficient. What the upcoming G80 will bring that remains still to be seen. Of course, NVIDIA might just wait and see what the R580+ design refresh will bring which will power the upcoming Radeon X1950 series.
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