http://www.osnews.com/story/20610/The_RV770_Story_Documenting_ATI_s_Road_to_Success Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:58:22 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?339307 http://osnews.com/thread?339307 Nice move, AMD. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (B. Janssen) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?339319 http://osnews.com/thread?339319 This was a very interesting read, thank you for linking this story! Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (johkra) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?339330 http://osnews.com/thread?339330 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. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (CodeMonkey) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?339363 http://osnews.com/thread?339363 awesome read. Very interesting. Isn't competition great Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Calipso) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?339367 http://osnews.com/thread?339367 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. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kloty) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?339424 http://osnews.com/thread?339424 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. Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (PlatformAgnostic) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?339456 http://osnews.com/thread?339456 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. Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mtilsted) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?339577 http://osnews.com/thread?339577 I'm not quite sure really. The RV770 is supported in the RadeonHD driver and hardware rendering is being worked on.

Phoronix does a good job of keeping tabs on the state of Linux video drivers. On Aug. 27, 2008 they reported the first working code for hardware rendering had been produced, and none of their reviews have noted any instability from the drivers.

I've included some links to articles that might fill in some of your questions, and if not, the Phoronix forums would be a good place to ask around.

Open-Source 3D Success For Radeon RV770
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjY3OQ

Radeon HD4830 Review
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=sapphire_hd4...

ATI X.Org, Mesa Performance In Ubuntu
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_ati_m... Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Flatland_Spider) Comments