Interview with ATI's David Orton
Tom's Hardware has an interview with the chief operating officer of ATI, who will become CEO in June. He remarks surprise on the thermal properties of Nvidia's new design and how they are doing it different (royalty model) for the next X-box graphic chips.
We were expecting Nvidia to push ahead. But I would say that there were surprises in some areas. The die size is bigger than we thought and the power consumption is higher than we expected. They also followed up architecturally to 16 pipes. We expected them to end up expanding internal processing instead. I am also surprised that they have not been able to reach a higher core frequency.
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