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Ai está mais um anuncio dos rapazes (bitboys) ... o AXE !!!!!
http://www.bitboys.fi/products_axegraphicsprocessor.htm
Para quem não conhece a historia dos rapazes, está aqui,
http://www.aceshardware.com
e copiada na integra no final do post ...
Enfim, será que estes rapazes alguma vez vão mesmo lançar um chip grafico?
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BitBoys: Axed (HARDWARE)
By Brian Neal
Wednesday, September 4, 2002 3:06 PM EDT
Thanks to mad_arab for posting about BitBoys' recently redesigned website and information available regarding the company's PC graphics chip. As you can see from the title of this post, the chip, codenamed Axe, featuring 12 MB of eDRAM is no more. It had been announced some time ago that Infineon, who was producing the Axe for BitBoys, had closed down its eDRAM manufacturing line. The Axe is a casualty of this, as stated on BitBoys' page for the Axe Graphics Processor:
Axe builds on Bitboys patented XBA™ technology, and a complete prototype chip has been manufactured by Infineon Technologies on their 0.17 micron embedded DRAM process. As Infineon has closed down its embedded DRAM fabrication line, Bitboys will not bring Axe to the PC desktop market.
As many of our readers surely know, this is not the first time a BitBoys product has failed to reach the shelves. The team's first 3D accelerator, Pyramid3D, never made it to the market when TriTech decided to get out of the business.
Following that turn of bad luck, the company announced the development of a new product, Glaze3D. However, a couple years later in April of 2000, the company announced they were cancelling Glaze3D and announced development of a new 3D accelerator, now known as Axe. Apparently, the Glaze3D was cancelled because BitBoys felt it would not be competitive with the other solutions on the market at the time. Looking at the published specifications of the Axe, however, one must wonder if it would have been significantly more competitive with today's graphics accelerators than the Glaze3D would have been in 2000.
The processor contains over 6 million logic gates and 12M bytes of embedded DRAM memory, working together with external SDRAM memory (up-to 128M bytes). The memory is connected to the graphics engine via a multi-channel memory management unit that provides the extreme bandwidth required by the core pixel processor.
The rendering engine processes four pixels and two textures every clock cycle, performing advanced texture filtering, color blending and shading in real-time. High visual quality is achieved through a combination of precise color processing and MatrixAA™ anti-aliasing.
A multithreaded, four-ALU geometry processor supporting DirectX ® 8 vertex shading and primitive processing, feeds the rendering engine.
As you can see from the above, the 12 MB eDRAM was a primary architectural feature of the Axe that helped to offload demand on the slower external memory (also meaning slower, less expensive memory could be used, like SDRAM). Previous documentation has indicated that BitBoys used a 1024-bit memory interface to the eDRAM, providing a bandwidth of roughly 20 GB/s. However, this bandwidth has already been matched by the Radeon 9700 with its 256-bit interface to slightly more than 10 times the total memory (128 MB vs 12 MB). The Radeon 9700 also has twice as many pixel pipelines as the Axe for a higher pixel fillrate and likely has better feature support for upcoming versions of DirectX. And, of course, the NV30 is on the way as well.
Despite this, the Axe may have been successful as a budget solution, had Infineon not shut down production. Currently the company seems to be focusing on the mobile market, including cellphones and PDAs, with its vector graphics core.
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http://www.bitboys.fi/products_axegraphicsprocessor.htm
Para quem não conhece a historia dos rapazes, está aqui,
http://www.aceshardware.com
e copiada na integra no final do post ...
Enfim, será que estes rapazes alguma vez vão mesmo lançar um chip grafico?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BitBoys: Axed (HARDWARE)
By Brian Neal
Wednesday, September 4, 2002 3:06 PM EDT
Thanks to mad_arab for posting about BitBoys' recently redesigned website and information available regarding the company's PC graphics chip. As you can see from the title of this post, the chip, codenamed Axe, featuring 12 MB of eDRAM is no more. It had been announced some time ago that Infineon, who was producing the Axe for BitBoys, had closed down its eDRAM manufacturing line. The Axe is a casualty of this, as stated on BitBoys' page for the Axe Graphics Processor:
Axe builds on Bitboys patented XBA™ technology, and a complete prototype chip has been manufactured by Infineon Technologies on their 0.17 micron embedded DRAM process. As Infineon has closed down its embedded DRAM fabrication line, Bitboys will not bring Axe to the PC desktop market.
As many of our readers surely know, this is not the first time a BitBoys product has failed to reach the shelves. The team's first 3D accelerator, Pyramid3D, never made it to the market when TriTech decided to get out of the business.
Following that turn of bad luck, the company announced the development of a new product, Glaze3D. However, a couple years later in April of 2000, the company announced they were cancelling Glaze3D and announced development of a new 3D accelerator, now known as Axe. Apparently, the Glaze3D was cancelled because BitBoys felt it would not be competitive with the other solutions on the market at the time. Looking at the published specifications of the Axe, however, one must wonder if it would have been significantly more competitive with today's graphics accelerators than the Glaze3D would have been in 2000.
The processor contains over 6 million logic gates and 12M bytes of embedded DRAM memory, working together with external SDRAM memory (up-to 128M bytes). The memory is connected to the graphics engine via a multi-channel memory management unit that provides the extreme bandwidth required by the core pixel processor.
The rendering engine processes four pixels and two textures every clock cycle, performing advanced texture filtering, color blending and shading in real-time. High visual quality is achieved through a combination of precise color processing and MatrixAA™ anti-aliasing.
A multithreaded, four-ALU geometry processor supporting DirectX ® 8 vertex shading and primitive processing, feeds the rendering engine.
As you can see from the above, the 12 MB eDRAM was a primary architectural feature of the Axe that helped to offload demand on the slower external memory (also meaning slower, less expensive memory could be used, like SDRAM). Previous documentation has indicated that BitBoys used a 1024-bit memory interface to the eDRAM, providing a bandwidth of roughly 20 GB/s. However, this bandwidth has already been matched by the Radeon 9700 with its 256-bit interface to slightly more than 10 times the total memory (128 MB vs 12 MB). The Radeon 9700 also has twice as many pixel pipelines as the Axe for a higher pixel fillrate and likely has better feature support for upcoming versions of DirectX. And, of course, the NV30 is on the way as well.
Despite this, the Axe may have been successful as a budget solution, had Infineon not shut down production. Currently the company seems to be focusing on the mobile market, including cellphones and PDAs, with its vector graphics core.
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