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EEing question about ATI's new partnership.

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Guys and gals I don't know if you saw this:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1518144,00.asp

I was doing some research on Intrinsity and the Fast14 process. I was thinking that the MATH-LP would be a perfect fit for ATI.

http://www.intrinsity.com/products/products_fastmath_set.htm

I wanted to see if some EE (Electrical Engineers) could shed some light on this. Which Intrinsity process do you think that ATI is after

1.) FastMATH
2.) FastMATH-LP
3.) FastMIPS

I personally think ATI is after the FastMATH-LP process. However, I could be wrong and mostly likely I am. The FastMIPS process would be schweet for the next generation (R500) cores. I'd love to see a core operating at +1GHz with low power consumption. Could a RISC based graphics chip be used on a x86 platform?

Thanks in Advance,

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It's a licensing deal. Which basically boils down to the fact that ATi wants to employ some of their intellectual property. Namely some of Intrinisitys patents seen here.

All of the "FastX" stuff is just made up marketing names for groups of ip. In looking at the patents you can see their technology is largely based on design rules and new ways of implimenting core logic over standard VHDL. This is what they're after.
 
Which is good, but it will take a long time to use some of these ideas in ATI's chips....
 
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