ATI’s Third Attempt to tape our the R520 worked!
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With a little bit of luck on their side The Inq believe that ATI has finally got the R520 core working correctly and is off to production. Better late than never, but just like their article mentioned the nVIDIA G70 Ultra is being held and we all know that nVIDIA is waiting on the R520 to come out before launching their fastest card. Looks like the video card market will heat up again in a couple months!
The first R520 silicon worked at high speeds but only few chips worked, we hear. Wafers are expensive and each costs roughly $3000 and if only 20 chips work from your wafer that will make a production costs of that chip enormously big. You need a better number to make more money.
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