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Posted by JoannaK on 06-Dec-2002 20:50 GMT | In reply to Comment 97 (takemehomegrandma): > > Besides.. I have this feeling there may well be somethig else on those chips
> > beoynd this now announced bugfix.
> Perhaps, but hardly a 2003 version of the copper/blitter. The previous
> speculations about the April were perhaps a little too hopeful ...:-)
Well.. considering the tone it was announced it's not wonder people started to thow all imaginable ideas on th air. Speculations like USB2 and some other even wilder ideas have been heard.
But after seeing photo of those chips (including their full names) it was quite obvious they are not for that grade of system extension. Besides Copper/blitter ought to be on GFX-card and access Gfx-hw to be usefull, and that's not where this April is.
> But it's those little things that counts! An advantage of having in-house
> competence of hardware developing is the control over the products
> performance. If it "only" is about some fine-tuning, then it stills makes
> it stand out of the competition (even more)! :-)
I heard kinda interesting rumours about it's uses beoynd fixing some known (+some lesser obvious) stability issues of PCI busses. BUT I'm not to repeat them cause if it's true then it's going to quite big bang to some. I'm quite sure we know a lot more in about next 12-16 hours. Afterall I'm not expecting to keep these secrets anymore than necessary :) |
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