ATI MultiVPU motherboards, chipsets ready to go

ATI MOVED quite a bit between its paper SLI Multi-rendering plans to its soon-to-be-released products.

We hear that motherboards are in their final stages of design and that some boards should be ready by the end of the month. Smells like we will see many of those boards at Computex.

Actually ATI demonstrated this marchitecture back at Cebit and now motherboard vendors are more than ready to show their progress. They are now at the final stage of development.

It's still all about drivers and we know that ATI is working hard on this side. The hardware side works well and theoretically RD480 and RD400 chipsets are not that different from their RS brothers. Multi-rendering and two PCIe graphics slots are the only significant differences from the RS boards.

We know that chipsets have been shipped to the motherboard vendors and both RS480 / RD400 have been shipped with RS450 Southbridge. Vendors can chose to use ULI Southbridge as well -its really up to them. Battle is about to commence, SLI wars will begin during June, we suggest.

We expect many announcements leading up till then. µ