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GDDR2 Emerging As A Real Standard

Posted by timothy on from the sharpen-the-initiative's-spearhead- dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I noticed here that EE Times is reporting that the GDDR2 standard is finally becoming a reality. Both NVIDIA and ATI's latest chips offer support. ATI helped spearhead the initiative to develop the standard. The significance of this is great, since it may very well mean that every 18 months or so a new graphics memory standard will be released."

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  1. I'm making a law right now by Rooked_One · · Score: 5, Funny

    its called the Cameron Law - it dictates that game companies and graphics cards companies are in a conspiracy together to force us buy more and more of each, and every 18 months we will have to buy a new video card, which probably coincides with new technology video game releases. (this is a joke, so don't take it that seriously)

  2. according to the article by Sad+Loser · · Score: 4, Funny


    it says that GDDR3 is going to be the standard, not GDDR2 - which sounds like it has multiple different implementations.
    (I know it is against the spirit of /. to actually read the article - sorry)

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  3. GDDR2 by rwa2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh, it's some graphics chipset related thingy. I seriously thought the acronym was for a global standard for Dance Dance Revolution...