AMD To Make GPU's

[fbrdphreak]

The new chip, codenamed Apollo Fir, has SIXTEEN, yes that?s right, SIXTEEN pixel pipelines. Throw in just about every damn shading technique and hardware feature you can think of and it would seem that on paper, AMD has just won the entire GPU market with its first chip. And no, this isn?t just hyperbole, or me getting carried away with a press release. Taking a cue from the XFX SLI system with two NVIDIA 6800 Ultra 512MB boards, AMD have produced an engineering board with a massive 2Gig of ultra-fast DDR2 memory.

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If this is true, cool. But it seems like AMD might be biting off more than it can chew. Aren't they heavily in dept and trying to make as many CPU's as possible but they're still struggling to meet demand? I think they should get the CPU market squared up and then tackle 'em, but I won't complain if AMD enters the video card fray

edit damn i must be tired
2nd edit wow, re-read it a little more awake and damn was i tired

 

[imported_itr]

april fools

 

[thegimp03]

hehe, the names are kinda funny in that article.

 

[OnEMoReTrY]

Hehe Apollo Fir is an anogram for April Fools =]

 

[stickybytes]

one look at the article and you could tell it's definetely an april fool's joke.

but the dead give away is: a quick google of "amd gpu" turned up with nothing so you know this has got to be fake. nothing escapes the reaches of google.

 

[cubby1223]

that's one complaint I've had over the past couple years - April fools jokes are done so outrageous that no one could ever believe them, thus they're not really fooling anyone... Apollo Fir... Hue Jass... Louis Frappe-Mocha...

 

[ohnnyj]

Yeah, I think hexus is based in the UK so it is already tomorrow over there.

 

[imported_Hi]

thats is such a lie
30000 in 3dmark05

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

Intel?s Hugh Jass had this to say about the AMD board:
?Look, stop bothering me, I KNOW I have a funny name, and oh yes, ha ha, it is so very funny, isn?t it? So now you?ve had your little giggle, why not go and bother someone else??

::chuckle::

 

[otispunkmeyer]

quote

"And 2GB of framebuffer will definitely come in handy for the upcoming version of Playboy: The Mansion that uses masses of uncompressed normal maps for even better breasticle fidelity.?

breasticle fidelity!

and it doesnt come more british than

this AMD engineers is notoriously gobby after two pints and a curry

hehehe what a mouthful

which effectively doubles the triple filtering pixel overlay relay quad pass scan of each geometric shape

 

[mwmorph]

oh man, you got me all exicited a55wipes!

 

[christopherzombie]

WTF!!!

I just ordered this card off newegg. Do you think I'll get PayPal credit.

 

[Like a Fox Yet Again]

Originally posted by: stickybytes
one look at the article and you could tell it's definetely an april fool's joke.

but the dead give away is: a quick google of "amd gpu" turned up with nothing so you know this has got to be fake. nothing escapes the reaches of google.

I often wonder if in several thousand years Google will essentially be a titan corporation that controls everything in the galaxy, because as we all know knowledge is power