嗯~~看起來是要走一些大廠不走的市場.像PDA,手機,導航等等.
PowerVR的架構也很適合這些對顯示記憶體頻寬,容量都有限的東西.

至於PC/GAME CONSOLE這一塊,除非有極為重大的技術突破,或做到
價格/效能比很好的殺手級產品,否則我看要搞得過NVDA跟ATI這兩
個把持住規格的大廠......

一個產品要起來,不只是東西要好,經營策略跟運氣也是很重要的.

多按了....刪

http://www.electronicstimes.com/story/OEG20021003S0016
Imagination preps next-gen graphics for 2003


KINGS LANGLEY, England -- Imagination Technologies Group plc, a developer of multimedia and graphics processor technology and cores available for license, has dropped development of its Series-4 generation of the Power-VR graphics acceleration architecture and is instead speeding up development of the Series-5 architecture, and planning for first implementations in 2003.

Series-5 architecture-based implementations will include additional features such as pixel shading and full programmability, according to John Metcalfe, vice president of business development at Imagination.

Imagination's current PowerVR MBX graphics and video core, the subject of a licensing deal with Intel Corp. (see July 24 story), is based on the Series-3 version of the architecture. Imagination also has a strategic co-operation agreement with ARM Holdings plc, the pioneer of the cores-for-license business model, concerning the use of PowerVR technology within wireless equipment.

Metcalfe said that Series-5 architecture would be based on a primary processing pipeline and a series of hardware accelerators that can be optionally switched in and out to render graphics.

𨯗s well as class-leading functionality, there will be some unique features enabled by tile-based rendering,?said Metcalfe.

Tile-based rendering is the approach Imagination has taken since 1996, when as VideoLogic, the company introduced its first series graphics chips. Tile-based rendering has advantages in terms of reducing image-processing complexity, according to Imagination.

Metcalfe said development of the Series-4 architecture of PowerVR was dropped when STMicroelectronics, a licensee of earlier PowerVR architectures, decided to pull out of the PC graphics chip market (see February 8 story).

At that time some technologies were pulled forward into the MBX cores, such as vertex geometry processing, and Series-5 architecture development was accelerated, he said.

Metcalfe added that the Series-5 architecture would debut in 2003 in a 0.13-micron process technology. He said that it was not yet decided whether Imagination would get first silicon implementations or test chips made at a licensee's wafer fab or at a foundry wafer fab in Taiwan.

TI4600與GFX5900,R300的效能差距沒有我想像的如此巨大,而且眼前IMGtech有個好機會-DOOM III,真希望未來這幾個月內S3-VIA與IMGtech都能拿出拿手好戲,因為256bit的頻寬還是感受不出"2倍"的效能成長

其實電腦界本來就沒有這種"xx加倍,yy就加倍"的絕對理論....
btw,有沒有人知道SIS Xabre2到哪裡去了....?

幫大家拉回5600:p
http://db.ascii24.com/akiba/news/20...643771-000.html
青雲的FX5600P Turbo和5200u
(台灣已經買得到FX5600P Turbo了，好像是7200…有vivo)

啟亨大銀家5600nu :jolin: :fear:

samsung大大的內幕消息有報導出來了喔:)
http://news.mydrivers.com/page/dir2...05,22,12238.htm



just wait and see....:cool:

這麼好的文章....

今天才看到:jolin:

感謝asopp大的測試....推一下:)

後面討論的5900對小弟最近的購買功課很有幫助...

應該可以另創一標題來討論5900:)

奇怪，這照片上的青雲FX5600P怎麼會有外接電源插座？？
我買的青雲FX5600P沒有耶......

turbo才有外接電源吧?
turbo用的是nv31/34ultra的pcb，ram為bga