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Anyone seen one of these in the wild? I might start looking for a BitBoys Glaze3D video card soon...
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Did they ever get working silicon before they ran off to mobile? IIRC they had a design that was... troubling... to fab with the combined requirements for large eDRAM and high performance processing. Hence the Infineon partnership, right till Infineon shut down their DRAM fab and no one could make the things.
BUT... if any of their engineering boards made it out into the world, they would be as rarefied as the twenty 3dfx Rampage dev boards, just without the name recognition and nostalgia. It would be awesome to get a system running at least SOMETHING on a Hammer era engineering sample.
For those of you who don't know the history - you can buy a Bitboys GPU today, in the form of a Qualcomm SOC. Bitboys was bought by ATI, ATI renamed it Imageon. ATI was then bought by AMD and AMD sold the division to Qualcomm. Qualcomm renamed it Adreno, an anagram of Radeon.
BUT... if any of their engineering boards made it out into the world, they would be as rarefied as the twenty 3dfx Rampage dev boards, just without the name recognition and nostalgia. It would be awesome to get a system running at least SOMETHING on a Hammer era engineering sample.
For those of you who don't know the history - you can buy a Bitboys GPU today, in the form of a Qualcomm SOC. Bitboys was bought by ATI, ATI renamed it Imageon. ATI was then bought by AMD and AMD sold the division to Qualcomm. Qualcomm renamed it Adreno, an anagram of Radeon.
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