40nm Mobile

Ho Ho ho, we found some interesting news just before Santa came and visited us. Santa uses Fedex these days, and even these guys are working only until 13:00 today.

Anyway, we found out some info on a chip that we haven’t mentioned before. It's a mobile chip codenamed M97 and this is the first time we’ve seen it showing up in ATI plans. The chip has just been taped out and it currently runs at 500MHz.

We wouldn’t know how many Shaders and pipes this chip has, but we suspect it has a tad less than M98.

We have a feeling that this is actually a 40nm RV740 sibling, but it's too early to confirm it. This would mean that summer notebooks might have some 40nm inside at minimal clock of 500MHz and GDDR3 memory that would run at 850MHz or faster.

We'll try to dig up some more info on this, so stay put.