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Bitboys Silicon Sighted

Posted by timothy on from the plus-cold-fusion-in-your-microwave dept.

ZaPhY42 writes: "The Bitboys look like they've actually produced some working silicon of their mythical XBA Xtreme Bandwidth Architecture-based graphics card which they were previewing at Assembly 2002. Photos of the card can be found here(1) and here(2). What next? Duke Nukem Forever gets released by 3DRealms? ;)"

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  1. When BitBoys' XBA ships... by Boone^ · · Score: 5, Funny

    DNF will be the Pack-in.

    Guess you get to decide who's to blame for the holdup. :)

  2. Bandwidth Owner? by aspjunkie · · Score: 4, Funny

    Notice later on in the forum: "I have few more images from Presentation, but my site bandwidth is driving owner nuts already so I'll try limit it..."

    Man, he's probably really pissed now.

  3. Working strategy by chefren · · Score: 2, Funny
    I guess the finally figured out the strategy:

    1. Hype!
    2. Actually produce a product.
    3. Profit!
    1. Re:Working strategy by jejones · · Score: 4, Funny
      Then the Bitboys came up with what they called the "Other Other Operation":
      1. Hype!
      2. Actually produce a product.
      3. Profit!
      This, for the Bitboys, was the turning point.
  4. I'm a bit afraid to look under their by alptraum · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Current Openings" I'm afraid I might see...

    Now hiring:
    Marketers - We need dedicated people to hype non-existant products that on paper outperform all the competitors, Combined!! We will never have an actual product for the market, but we need skilled marketing professionals to make people think one day we actually will.

    Engineering - No Current Openings (and never will be)

  5. Holy Cow! by Digital_Dreamer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Looks like one of the cards is even driving three -- yes, count 'em -- three 7-segment LED displays!
    Imagine the number of frames-per-second of ultra-low rez polygons that card can deliver!


    Okay, I need some more sleep. :-)

    dreamer out...

  6. Better card from ATI by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm saving my money for this card which was hyped on slashdot. Sounds much more cool. Then I'll put it in a PC with a Transmeta processor along with my Seti@HOME PCI card. I can't wait for all those cool Loki games to be released so I can take advantage of the chip, I can just download everything from Freenet.