No Feature-Set Cut of ATI's Next Generation Products – Representative

ATI's Rene Froeleke Answers Tough Questions

by Yaroslav Lyssenko

[ 09/23/2005 | 02:26 AM ]

The year 2005 has not been easy for ATI Technologies, as the company faced tough competition from the arch-rival NVIDIA Corp. in the high-end, ran into some issues with the 90nm process technology and also had to delay its multi-GPU technology dubbed CrossFire due to stability problems. But the troubles are nearly over, says Rene Froeleke, who is technical marketing manager for ATI’s European subsidiary, who was interviewed by CdrInfo web-site.

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These days ATI is gearing up for a number of hardware launches, which include CrossFire as well as RADEON X1800, X1600 and X1300 graphics chips, a lot of rumours and speculations concerning the products arise. As a consequence, Mr. Froeleke had to answer some uneasy questions regarding delays of the multi-GPU tech as well as possibilities of feature-set cuts of the next-gen chips in order to improve time-to-market.

“We came across some issues during our QA testing, and as we wanted to supply the most complete dual-GPU solution, we wanted to make sure that we understand the root cause of these problems. Once identified, we had to test it against all possible combinations of graphic adapters,” Mr. Froeleke explained the delays of the CrossFire.

“We did not have to remove any features from the R520 or any other of our upcoming products. While this was suggested by some rumors, cutting the feature set of our next generation products was never up for discussion,” stated Rene Froeleke.

• CdrInfo.com: Interview with Mr Rene Froeleke of ATI.