Monday, August 30, 1999

S3 Savage 2000 Announced -- 8:38 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

The NDAs expire today. The wraps are officially off the S3 Savage 2000, due to be on a Diamond card near you in the fourth quarter. Check out Sharky Extreme's preview for more information. S3 coming out with a blazing fast chip? What's this world coming to? Of course, right now it's just paperware, so we'll see once the reviews come in of the real production boards. No matter what, this means more competition. More competition means faster products at lower prices. Can't beat that.

The chip is due to go to manufacturing in October. The big question is, can they make this time frame, especially since they are making the jump to a .18 micron process. Considering the labor pains the industry went through when it shifted to a .25 micron process, I find it difficult to believe that they can make this jump that quickly. More power to them . . .

The Master comments: I really think S3 can deliver a powerful graphics processor. They have a good chunck of the graphics patents in the industry, and the fabs to deliver the chips. They just needed the engineers to wake up and realize-oh, yeah, I guess we'd better design a REAL processor one of these days :-)

News for 08/30/1999

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