Dave Orton quits ATI

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited July 2007 in Science & Tech
The man who steered ATi to its peak with the Radeon 9x00 series, and kept it relatively afloat before the 2900 shenanigans is leaving AMD at the end of the month. It'll be interesting to see how AMD/ATi slogs on without Mr. Orton. You can read more about it here.

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  • jaredjared College Station, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2007
    Can't say I blame him. Things have been going steadily downhill over at AMD/ATi over the past 6-8 months. Maybe he is getting off a sinking ship? :\
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2007
    Or was sacked for allowing the 2900 to happen.
  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited July 2007
    From an arcitecure standpoint the Radeon Hd 2900 is very impressive..... but they clearly didn't design it with gaming in mind its designed for crunching numbers.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited July 2007
    Hmmmm and a friend of mine just got a job at AMD/ATI Hmmmmmmm
  • QeldromaQeldroma Arid ZoneAh Member
    edited July 2007
    GrayFox wrote:
    From an arcitecure standpoint the Radeon Hd 2900 is very impressive..... but they clearly didn't design it with gaming in mind its designed for crunching numbers.

    Actually they designed it with DX10 clearly in mind and gave it an instruction set (not all that dissimilar from some of the SSEs) that is hoped to facilitate future graphics designers. As far as being simply a number cruncher ... well ... the FAH GPU client can't run on it :( .
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2007
    It was designed to kill the 8800 GTX. Orton and Ruiz both went on record to say that people could not comprehend the performance of the 2900 XT. Unfortunately, its inconceivable performance is at the wrong end of the spectrum.
  • QeldromaQeldroma Arid ZoneAh Member
    edited July 2007
    Thrax wrote:
    Orton and Ruiz both went on record to say that people could not comprehend the performance of the 2900 XT....

    Yeah- we didn't :) .
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