Yeah, its pretty sad.

But after the promising Volari's, XGI didn't release any reasonable products anymore. That doomed them all the way.

Their Time-to-market is what killed them, must have been the worst in the entire industry.

What will be even more interesting, is if XGI owners will still get Driver support or witness 3dfx history repeating itself.

Question is after reading this though, does XGI have any technologies that will really benifit ATI? I can understand having a bigger presents in a market and maybe getting some programmers in there that will create some decent Linux drivers for once (not having Linux drivers for 5 months after the fact is crap if you ask me) which might also get you some more market shares but was XGI coming out with anything to really "Wow" the compitition (I don't know much about XGI so that's why I'm asking)? I mean looking back at the Kyro II chipset and the way it rendered things using the Tile architecture, had Nvidia or ATI bought them out instead of the licensing agreements that had gone bad with them both ATI or Nvidia might have been able to use some of that tech but with XGI was there anything that ATI could really use?

yes exactly nVidia didn't even make use of 3dfx's way of SLI after that I did some research they hardly use anything which is kinda stupid of them.

ATi has indeed used every bit of technology they learnt and bought from other companies, that's the power of teh Underdog

yeps there are more form ATi with that idea

ATi Rage Fury MAXX:


ATi Radeon 256 DDR MAXX


ATi Radeon 8500 MAXX


CAE - Tropos (4x Radeon 8500)


Evans and Sutherland - simFUSION 6000d (2x Radeon 9700)


Evans and Sutherland - simFUSION 6000q (4x Radeon 9700)


Sapphire Ati Radeon 9800 MAXX:




here a great review about it
http://www.ixbt.com/video2/sapphire-8.shtml

as you can see ATi MAXX is quite powerfull but with XGI's Duo technology it may get alot better

Let's hope That Ati will combine this technology with XGI's and really the results should get ground breaking  8)

I'm not so fond of nvidia also, thier image quallity sux in common hehe but that is not the topic point but yeah I hope that Ati will make good use of CGI's tech and I'm sure they will hehe .

About that quad radeon 9700Pro each core does FSAA x6 and the speed stays the same when the user sets no FSAA to FSAA x6, FSAA x12 FSAA x18 and FSAA x24 moded there will be no difference in speed , it works like a Quantum3D AALCheme 8164 there is no speed drop between no FSAA and all 4 FSAA modes, the higher the FSAA the more cores will jump in to backup the performance and keep it in one strait line

So what you get is Better Image Quallity and no performance dropexelent for 3D Modeling, Simulations and CAD work.