ATI Confirms R420 will be 0.13 Micron

SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
edited August 2003 in Science & Tech
ATI has confirmed that the R420 GPU will be made using a 0.13 Micron base. The company has revealed it has had so far, no problems working with the 0.13 micron process and indicates the transition to the new manufacturing system has been very smooth.
The company confirmed that it experiences no cost or yield issues with its RADEON 9600-series graphics processors made by two TSMC fabs using 0.13 micron process. Mr. Bergman even reiterated ATI’s concentration on improving its gross margins what presumes the lack of any problems with the cost of the products, so it looks like the company really has no issues with the 0.13 micron fabrication technology.

Thanks to excellent adoption of RADEON 9600 and 9800 families of VPUs, ATI Technologies now dominates in performance-mainstream segment of graphics cards and has terrific positions in enthusiast segment of the market. The next step for the company is to offer the RADEON 9600 or its derivative for entry-level market to compete against NVIDIA’s GeForce FX 5200 family of GPUs.

Source - Xbit Labs
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