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ATI's beta driver has a few versions of RV635 and RV620, 55 nanometre chips
listed and it looks like ATI is doing fine with its migration to a new
marchitecture.
ATI played
the dangerous game being a head of Nvidia in shrinking process but it might
even win this time. ATI run into problems going to 65 nanometre and some sources
close to company told Fudzilla that 65 nanometre is very hard.
Luckily for
DAAMIT it is not that hard to go from 65 to 55 nanometre as this is an optical
shrink. This will get the chip 17 to 20 percent smaller and obviously cooler.
It looks that these 55 nanometre chips are taped out and that they will be in
the stores just after Xmas.
The 55 mainstream and entry level will miss the Xmas sales madness but there will be there there in time for Q1 OEM refresh cycle.
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RV620 and R635 taped out
In the driver