Bitboys interview & former Glaze3D

[JK]

Heya,

I found this new interview with Bitboys co-founder Mika Tuomi at a Finnish Gaming&Hardware site. I have translated the interesting sections into English:

"There will never be a chip called Glaze3D. The reason for this is, that the name Glaze3D is registred and used by another company."

oh well..

Mika also said that "the 3D-chip and the board is 'under construction' at this very moment".
This is obviously a very vague comment ( is it under production or under development? )

here for the Interresting part:

Mika was asked if they are going to sell the chip and the XBA-tech forward to an outside manufacturer and the response was, "Nothing is final yet, but there are manufacturers waiting for a product."

The article also says that Bitboys met with these potential partners at last Comdex.

More rumours, Matrox maybe?

I'll keep you posted if I find more about this.

JK

PS. http://www.muropaketti.com/ links to the article (in Finnish)

[Gurm]

So this is what, the 5th time BitBoys has tried to claim that they have a card in development?

They're all on crack. I can't decide who is more crazy - bitboys or the people that fund them!

- Gurm

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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

[JK]

Of course they have a chip under development, but I doubt that it will ever see the daylight.

The tech is a step in the right direction (Who want to pay for faster chips if the memory can't handle all the data?), and if they smack us with a full-featured card or if some other manufacturer licences the tech, I would be very excited.

I am patiently waiting for the "Matrox next-Gen" but if ATI or even Bitboys suprises me with a better option then I won't hesitate to dump "M".

JK

PS. What if NV20 would offer fully featured dual-head and superiour image quality? Scary.

[The PIT]

More Bullshit and vapourware floating around.

[JK]

OK, Forget the comment about NV20, that was BS.

Gurm:
This is still just the second time Bitboys clame to have a card in production. The first time, a few years back, they withdrew the whole show.
Now they have worked on the new version for some time, and I would be suprised if the result would be null this time (nowadays they have more money,partners and experience)

//JK

[Gurm]

JK:

1. TriTech Pyramid 3D
2. Original Glaze (was it called Glaze?)
3. Current incarnation of Glaze (due in '99)

I'll admit, I count number 3 as more than one card, simply because it has dragged on for two years now.

- Gurm

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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

[DGhost]

They should have thought about the whole name problem what, 2 years ago?

The people at BitBoys may be brilliant - from what i hear they were at the head of the class when it came to 3d back in the day, and the TriTech Pyramid 3d card was about what the G400 was going to be - a full two years before it was released. But lets face it, while they come up w/ ideas, they have no product and they never have delivered a product - i do believe they came close w/ the Pyramid 3d, supposedly having test cards and what not going.

One thing - how expensive are chips that have embedded ram gonna be? You add how many transistors to the die, and how far do the odds increase that a chip will have a defect that cannot be recovered from? if yields suck, then your chip is crap. and they are expecting to be able to do this with a full chip and 12mb of memory, and have it run at how fast?

Anywho

-Luke

[Wombat]

Ghost,
12mb of RAM isn't that much. I've seen even more than that run with a processor at some fantastic (but, alas, confidential) speeds. Not to mention, RAM is about the only thing you can add to a die without it blowing yield to pieces, since a good RAM design is redundant and repairable.

[DGhost]

Very true - the simplistic design of memory does make it easily redundant once you figure out the yields and probability of errors on the section of die. and i suppose i should think about it a bit more seeing as i work w/ 256mb dimms all the time, and i would guestimate they have 16mbit of mem per chip.

Thats what i get for talking at night ;P

-Luke