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"Over a weekend, with no assistance or training at all, our engineer wrote a script that succeeded in rerouting the chip using NanoRoute Ultra. As if that weren't impressive enough, the new design ran significantly faster than the old one."
David Chiappini
ASIC Director, Matrox
Matrox has after ten years dumped outdated ASIC routing technology that served them till Parhelia and invested in Nanoroute from Cadence.
Fremont, Calif., January 9, 2004. Netsys Software Pvt. Ltd.(nSys), a solution provider for emerging standards, today announced that Matrox Graphics Inc. has signed an agreement to license nSys PCI Express nVS verification tools for use in its chip design efforts. Matrox engineers are now using PCI Express nVS product to verify the correct operation of the PCI Express interface in its chip designs. The tool helps Matrox engineers catch potential bugs during pre-silicon verification.
Matrox has invested in PCI validating technology.
Thread with various Haig's Pitia like answers.
We know there will be no Molex connector.
So we can expect die shrunk Parhelia (since it ran significantly faster) with better routing a and proabably the core will be able to transit to PCI Express as time reqires.
If we look at Ati - the most powerful card without Molex is R9600XT. Since Parhelia clock for clock perfoms about on par with 9700 pro (note the clock difference), we can expect 9600-9700 class performance.
New passive 3head card has also been announced. I think the card will be just P650 with 3head enabled, something like P650TH most likely. Since LX cores are designed, work well for what they're intended and fabbing is not that expensive WRT to core size I don't expect die shrink here.
Also with Parhelia and G series, Matrox was proabably able to recoup some money to be able to invest in modern technolog. Because they proabably lacked some hi-end new ASIC developement technology during Parhelia development, this resulted in low clocks and bandings.
What this means they're staying in the market and if they'll be able to catch up with investments and technology they'll likely make a 3D comeback, not neccessary next, but subsequent generations.
"Over a weekend, with no assistance or training at all, our engineer wrote a script that succeeded in rerouting the chip using NanoRoute Ultra. As if that weren't impressive enough, the new design ran significantly faster than the old one."
David Chiappini
ASIC Director, Matrox
Matrox has after ten years dumped outdated ASIC routing technology that served them till Parhelia and invested in Nanoroute from Cadence.
Fremont, Calif., January 9, 2004. Netsys Software Pvt. Ltd.(nSys), a solution provider for emerging standards, today announced that Matrox Graphics Inc. has signed an agreement to license nSys PCI Express nVS verification tools for use in its chip design efforts. Matrox engineers are now using PCI Express nVS product to verify the correct operation of the PCI Express interface in its chip designs. The tool helps Matrox engineers catch potential bugs during pre-silicon verification.
Matrox has invested in PCI validating technology.
Thread with various Haig's Pitia like answers.
We know there will be no Molex connector.
So we can expect die shrunk Parhelia (since it ran significantly faster) with better routing a and proabably the core will be able to transit to PCI Express as time reqires.
If we look at Ati - the most powerful card without Molex is R9600XT. Since Parhelia clock for clock perfoms about on par with 9700 pro (note the clock difference), we can expect 9600-9700 class performance.
New passive 3head card has also been announced. I think the card will be just P650 with 3head enabled, something like P650TH most likely. Since LX cores are designed, work well for what they're intended and fabbing is not that expensive WRT to core size I don't expect die shrink here.
Also with Parhelia and G series, Matrox was proabably able to recoup some money to be able to invest in modern technolog. Because they proabably lacked some hi-end new ASIC developement technology during Parhelia development, this resulted in low clocks and bandings.
What this means they're staying in the market and if they'll be able to catch up with investments and technology they'll likely make a 3D comeback, not neccessary next, but subsequent generations.
pardon me ??? 
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