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September 22nd, 2003 - Leo Chan - Monday, September 15th, 2003 | 10:40AM (PST)
Transmigrates into the R500 instead
Earlier this year we reported that ATI would be releasing both R400 and R500 GPUs over the course of the next two years. GPU news wire Not For Idiots now confirms this past weekend that ATI has actually "cancelled" the R400 since then, and will instead revamp it as their new R500 GPU:
"The R500 "is" the R400, which was cancelled early this year. There are many reasons to this, among which the fact that ATI didn''t feel they could deliver the R400 in the required timeframe, which is Q1 2004 ( it seems the August 2003 timeframe was either BS, or that it had already been delayed a bit before getting cancelled. ) The R500, thus made by the same team which worked on the R400, might of course have more features than the original R400 design had, because, well, it''ll only be launched in Q4 2004, best case scenario."
At the time it was expected that the R400 would herald the GPU designer''s move to the advanced 0.13-micron production process, while the R500 marked the move to 90 nanometers. Both were to feature support for the new PCI Express device connection standard.
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