On Sunday 13 August 2006 13:31, Rogelio Serrano wrote: > > There is really no change at all. At least as far as current ATI > development is concerned. ATI can start developing a less encumbered > board in the far future though. Did the IP owners of the technology > ATI is using changed their minds?
What about the theory that the ATI driver writers are working off of prototype hardware, hardware design documents, and emails from the hardware guys, that is, that there _is_ no documentation to be made public. Now, AMD creates x86 processors, and the x86 instruction set changes once every couple of years when some new instructions are added. Graphics cards are evolving much more quickly. I wonder if AMD will be willing to spend the resources to publish a new set of documentation for three products every 6-8 months, to serve a platform that is a niche market for 3D (obviously a chicken-and-egg problem). Perhaps if they put a GPU into their processors they might, but with constraints on power and size that can't be as powerful as an external chip. Lourens
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