Parhelia 2: Late 2002?! (compl. DX9; 0,13µ)

[103er-Fan]

Take a look here:
http://www.gamestar.de/news/hardware/10187/

It says about the following:
According some rumours, there will be a completely tuned version of the Parhelia. Matrox wants to make the Parhelia 2 a full DirectX 9 card. A new manufacturing process (0,13µ instead of 0,15µ) will allow higher clock speeds.

I am wondering if this is true, they didn't mentioned any sources, also GameStar sometime likes to do spread some rumours, but if that would be true, then it would be sad as a Parhelia owner

[Slougi]

Re: Parhelia 2: Late 2002?! (compl. DX9; 0,13µ)

Originally posted by 103er-Fan
if that would be true, then it would be sad as a Parhelia owner

wtf? how so?

Edit: Sorry, I somehow read 2003 instead of 2002....

[103er-Fan]

Re: Re: Parhelia 2: Late 2002?! (compl. DX9; 0,13µ)

Originally posted by Slougi

wtf? how so?

Edit: Sorry, I somehow read 2003 instead of 2002....

Ok, I was talking for myself there.... and it would depend on the speed of the new Parhelia.

But if it would be around R9700 speeds, with the complete features the current P. offers, I would've been a bt sad that I haven't waited. Oh and of course depends on the price, but I doubt that it would be more expensive than the original P.

[GT98]

I thought that the Fab that makes the Parhelia is skipping .013 and going to .09 in 2003/4?

[lecter]

UMC you mean? I thought they already manufacture in 0.13....

[thop]

hmm interestentintertersting! to say the least.
it will happen eventually i guess but not late 2002, maybe summer 2003.

[Evildead666]

Summer 2003 and with 0.09µ probably...
0.13µ is IN now (as in the thing to have) and i suspect they'll just go for the next refresh...Full DX9, 0.09µ, and 300Mhz core or +
they might even go for a memory change (DDR-II or something else...)

I doubt we'll see anything this year, too soon after the launch of the current parhelia, but with the sales being what they are (pretty low i suppoe, no stats)

[Nappe1]

okay, so here's my dimes to this pot...

to me these news really don't bring anything new on the light. we all know (or I thought so) that Matrox is Skipping to 0.09µm (and not to 0.13µm as said in the article.) and we all know also that it is a way too early talk about their next generation Hardware. IMO, it's way too far away. (HEY! we are talking about something like 8 to 10 Months here! so calm down a bit. )

But I am not saying that they couldn't do something before showing new generation chip...

[yuppi]

Did anyone prove that it's a .15 chip?
I mean, didn't no one remove the heatspreader? ;-)
Maybe they but a HS on the die because it would be to small for a .15 process and someone might have noticed this ;-)

[P5ycho]

what do you want to do when you remove the heatspreader, put it under a electron-microscope? you cant see the manufacturing process from the outside you know...

[Claymonkey]

I really hope they can fix the P and show people up. As much as I love Matrox cards I was VERY disappointed with the P, and they are charging WAY to much for it.

[CaineTanathos]

Well remember the g200 was the first of the series
1 year later they release the g400/max

just a thought maybe the parhelia-512 chip is the first version too

[P5ycho]

yes, its the first chip of a new generation, so in about a year you'll see a more mature Parhelia.

[VigilAnt]

Be patient, and I will post up information with regards to this and many other issues at www.murc.ws.

VigilAnt

[GNEP]

Ooooh - things must be hotting up Haven't seen VigilAnt around in a while