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Third time lucky?

By Staff Writers
00:00 Jan 1, 1900
Tags: Third | time | lucky

It looks like the sun is finally rising in Finland, with its two greatest 'vapourware' products finally emerging. Hot on the heels of the long awaited and much delayed Max Payne from Remedy Entertainment, bitboys have actually announced (and shown

It looks like the sun is finally rising in Finland, with its two greatest 'vapourware' products finally emerging. Hot on the heels of the long awaited and much delayed Max Payne from Remedy Entertainment, bitboys have actually announced (and shown off samples) of its next generation 3D chipset at Assembly 2001.

Details are still scarce, but there are some mindblowing specs backing up the card. The touted 64-bit internal colour precision is something that 3d junkies have been hankering for for a long time now, and the overall memory bandwidth of 30GB/s is a pretty astronomical number, especially when being squeezed out of RAM running at 250MHz.

Over the next weeks details should start becoming clearer, but it is shaping up to be an amazing christmas period in the graphics market, with ATI seemingly ready to announce the successor to the RADEON, S3/VIA unleashing its integrated T&L version of the Savage and interesting whispers that Matrox may have something up its sleeve (of course the pundits are starting to try and find links with Matrox and Bitboys after the announcement, but who knows?)

Check out the as yet un-updated bitboys website.

John Gillooly
 
 
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