ATI First To Market with Mobile PCI Express Graphi

I just found this press release on ATIs web site. It looks like Nvidia may have some competition for their MXM tech. No word as yet if the two techs will be compatable.
http://www.ati.com/companyinfo/press/2004/4755.html

Some quotes from the article
"MOBILITY™ RADEON™ X600 and AXIOM™ usher in a new era of ATI mobile graphics leadership for PCI Express"

"ATI’s mobile PCI Express solutions will be employed by more than sixteen of the industry’s leading OEM and ODM designers including, Acer, Arima, ASUS, Clevo, ECS, eMachines, FIC, Gateway, HP, Inventec, LG, Mitac, Samsung, Quanta, Uniwill and Wistron. The launch of MOBILITY RADEON X600 and AXIOM will take place on June 3rd at a gala event in Taipei, Taiwan"

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Here are the specs for the NEW Mobility Radeon X600

http://www.ati.com/products/mobilityradeonx600/specs.html

Specifications
3D Graphics Performance
Supports Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0
Pixel and Vertex Shaders
Quad rendering & dual vertex engines
Full precision floating point with full performance
0.13 micron VPU featuring Low-K process technology
Fast 3D engine speed
Low power operation
SMOOTHVISION™ 2.1
Eliminates “jaggies” on the edges of objects and other visual artifacts for smoother-looking images without compromising performance
Multisampling with 6 unique samples per pixel and ATI’s patented gamma correction
16X Anisotropic filtering improves image quality by sharpening blurry textures to bring out finer detail
SMARTSHADER™ 2.0
Provides comprehensive hardware accelerated support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0.
Fully supported by OpenGL® using custom extensions
Up to 16 textures per pixel
Enables advanced Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 effects such as multiple render targets, user clip planes and high dimension floating point textures
Control panel allows gamers to enable exciting pixel shader effects in Direct3D® or OpenGL® applications.
Accelerated Home & Business Multimedia
Hardware acceleration for MPEG encoding and decoding, for DVD playback, personal video recorder and time-shifting applications
Video Input Port for notebook TV tuner solutions
FULLSTREAM™ - hardware accelerated video de-blocking for enhanced Internet streaming video quality
Optimized support for wide-aspect LCD panels and HDTV output
POWERPLAY™ 5.0
ATI’s fifth-generation POWERPLAY™ power management technology provides users with the optimal balance between performance and power consumption
Multiple power-saving settings offer increased control and flexibility
POWER-ON-DEMAND – constantly monitors system activity, dynamically adjusting clocks and voltage based on user scenario
LOW POWER LCD – enables lower LCD refresh rate for longer battery life
VARI-BRIGHT™ technology optimizes notebook panel brightness for more power savings
Visual Display Flexibility
Flexible and easy-to-use interface for multiple display settings
LCD-EE™ display engine allows for support of the latest high resolution and wide-screen notebook displays such as WUXGA (1920x1200) and QXGA (2048x1536).
Improved scaling of desktop resolution to full panel sizes
Improved video quality through compensation for LCD latency
165 MHz integrated TMDS transmitter, for support of DVI Digital Flat Panels at up to UXGA resolution (1600x1200)
Integrated TV-Out Encoder
Dual RAMDACs at speeds of 400MHz
Integrated HDTV encoder, supporting component output (YPbPr) for both North American and Japanese D-link connectors
VPU RECOVER™ II
Automatically activated if the graphics processor hangs, triggering the driver to reset the VPU, avoiding system “crash”
Multiple Variants For Ultimate Design Flexibility
MOBILITY™ RADEON™ X600 series is ATI’s ninth generation of mobile graphics with integrated onchip memory delivering true flexibility for numerous mobile form factors, from full size to “thin-and-light”.
Discrete
On-chip 64MB DDR (128-bit)
On-chip 128MB DDR (128-bit)
AXIOM™:
AXIOM™ (Advanced eXpress I/O Module) is a new design concept, enabling Notebook designers and users to reap the benefit of PCI Express, and achieve faster time-to-market with cutting edge, innovative solutions. ATI is an industry leader in PCI Express and is first-to-market with true native high-performance mobile graphics products. ATI is now building on that leadership by introducing AXIOM™ - a family of modular graphics and multimedia solutions for the Notebook PC using PCI Express interconnect.

AXIOM™ is a flexible approach to PCI Express modules and provides the most reliable and fastest time to market with cutting edge, innovatove solutions:
Proven, robust connector
Standard form factors
Can be customized for optimal fit with industrial design
Standard interconnect for graphics and other peripheral designs
Takes full advantage of PCI Express interface - AXIOM™ is a full family of modules
Full support for ATI FLEXFIT™ technology



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excellent find underpantman, did I ever tell you how happy it makes me to have an Australian news correspondent on the site? i didn't think so, well i am [ ]

oh, and i'm sure the ATI PCI Express graphics card solution is completely incompatible with NVidia's. I mean, would you expect it any other way?

 

Thanks abaxter,
Glad to be a correspondent !
To add to this tid bit, anandtech has a preview of the new ATI tech
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=2066&p=5

According to their report it looks like the two will be compatable, I hope that this is correct:

"Both the AXIOM module and the MXM module can be used with either NVIDIA or ATI GPUs, but ATI is also pushing the idea that AXIOM can be used for different types of PCI Express devices in notebooks"

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