X1300 to get a new 80 nanometre core

ATI IS ON a delayed schedule with its 80 nanometre production. But it should soon have samples of its RV560 and RV570 chips with the RV535 and the slowest RV505 about to follow.

The Radeon X1300 family will get a few new members - the RV516 and RV505. The current Radeon X1300 generation is based on the 90 nanometre RV515, while the new RV505s are 80 nanometre. As we said back in April, the RV516 is a replacement RV515 chip built in a UMC fab.

RV505 ASIC is manufactured by TSMC and has the same features as RV515 and RV516 chips. The card supports Shader Model 3.0, 128 or 64-bit memory interface, Avivo and Hypermemory for up to 512MB of memory.

ATI will introduce the newly-branded Radeon X1300 CE with the RV505CE ASIC chip. The card will be clocked at 350MHz core but will be passively cooled.

The RV505 will be able to work at up to 600MHz but will come clocked at slower speeds too. As it is 80 nanometre it is about seventeen percent smaller than the current 90 nanometre RV516. This means more chips per wafer and if the yields are good, more profit too.

Production is expected in the middle of September. µ

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