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Nice move, AMD.

This was a very interesting read, thank you for linking this story!

Definitely not a light read, but a great article. Having work at 2 very large engineering companies myself, it presents a rather accurate depiction of how the decision / design process of a new product goes. Espicially when you take into account the design engineers vs management perspective and how risks need to be taken to be successful in high technology.

Great article. Well worth my time.

awesome read. Very interesting. Isn't competition great

Being chip designer myself I can only confirm that behind every chip there are lot of ideas, lot of work, lot of passion, lot of brightest minds, who spended nights and weekends to get the design out in time. GPUs are the most complex designs in the industry with much shorter life then CPUs, so it is an absolutely incredible management and development piece of work. Just think of the progress in the computer graphics in such short time, which was enabled by NVidia and ATI. So cudos to both companies and its engineers.

Doing a chip seems so risky. It's so much harder than software because changing course mid-stream is even more expensive and the amount of detail is even greater. And you don't know if you succeeded until almost years down the line.

With the danger of being a bit off-topic? Does anyone know the status(Performance/stability) of the (Open and/or Closed) source drivers for this chip? Having a chip this fast is no use, if I still have to use software only OpenGL due to driver issues.