Hint at Matrox's Next Card?

[superfly]

sooner or later all cards will have to be made with several chips,because card makers won't be able to decrease the size of their chips forever...upcoming chips will be made at 0.18 micron and 0.13 micron seems possible for the following year(with copper interconnects),the tecnology to do anything below that is still being developed,and then there's the issue of bus bandwith,today we have DDR memory,but even that won't be enough for upcoming cards,so the use of several chips will be in the long run the only solution to increase the speed of video cards by 2/3 times every year,but there is at least one disadvantage to multichip solutionsrice.

[Dyre]

Personally i would LIKE to see a G450. I dont care about the T&L crap, but a faster care and mem, plus whatever else is up MAtrox's sleve would be very nice. I've got a hardware hankering and a G450 sounds like it will be very nice

[Agent31]

Having seen some of what T&L can do in the Dagoth Moore demo, I'm convinced it'll be the way of the future. There's a lot of improvements to be made, but I think the sooner all the leading hardware developers climb aboard, nVidia, Matrox, 3dfx and ATI (amongst others), the better for everyone.

nVidia did something good for the industry with the GeForce, sure it has it's weaknesses, but nobody can sensibly deny that for the last 3 months, it has been the fastest card for gamers on the market, this, despite it's slower clock speeds.

nVidia started the ball rolling, with a fairly decent product, I'm looking forward to what everyone else can come up with!

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