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CeBIT 2006 First is a TSMC kid, second UMC

WE'VE already reported about RV 570 and already noted that this chip will have the bridge inside and that it comes with a 256 bit memory interface. We have some more juice to offer, as the chip will be manufactured at TSMC. It is an advanced version of RV530, Radeon X1600 and this is the chip that is supposed to inherit the mantle of the recently announced X1800 GTO.


RV570 should be just as fast and the production cost will be much lower. Secret of the RV570 is that the chip is built on 80 nanometres and it looks like ATI might move to 80 nanometres faster than we all expected.

We've heard about the RV560 before and we also heard that it is a 256 bit chip that should inherit the RV530 mantle. We should be talking about the same twelve pixel pipelines but that's not clear at this point. This chip is architecturally the same as RV570 and the only difference is that it will be produced at UMC. This happened before as Radeon 9600, RV360 was the TSMC kid while the later coming Radeon 9550 was based on a new old RV370 UMC chip.

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