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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. FPGA? by katokop1 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Does anyone else notice how much that looks like an FPGA at the center of the board?

  2. I was there by 10Ghz · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Bitboys held a seminar in Assembly '02 regarding graphics hardware in handheld devices. In that seminar they had a hardware-accelerated demo of their technology. That demo was done using Altera FPGA-chip. It has hardware SVGA-acceleration, FSAA (of awesome quality I might add!) the works. Before the seminar I thought "Who needs 3D-acceleration in PDA/mobile phone?". After that demo I'm convinced that it's a must-have feature!
    After the seminar I (and others) managed to talk with them. They had their PC 3D-accelerator on display, along with sample chips. They are pulling out of the PC-business for now in order to focus on the mobile stuff. The chops is called "Axe" and it is working. They are testing it in-house as we speak, and new revision of the chio is coming up. But it will not reach consumers because Infineon is killing the silicon-process at the end of the year. The chip had 12 megs of eDRA and it was somewhat bigger than other chips out there.
    You can get the seminar from:
    ftp://ftp.asmparty.net/pub/seminars/
    It's the one called "Graphics hardware for handheld devices". I'm the guy with the laptop :)

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  3. Re:It's been a long time since I looked at any dem by Soulslayer · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Interestingly enough the BitBoys are actually ex-Future Crew guys. As are members of the Max Payne and 3D Mark teams.

    Future Crew Timeline

    And Skaven was even competeing. In fact he won the "Instrumental Music" category with a new version/sequel to his previous winning song "Catch That Goblin".

    Anyone interested in MOD/ULT/S3M/IT/XM/669 music from the demo scene should checkout Nectarine Radio.

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