AMD announced on Thursday that despite the fact that its graphics chip ATI Radeon HD 2000 series are significantly delayed, the company still intends to deliver them as soon as possible on the market. ATI, graphics department of AMD, will focus on the release of graphic systems “DirectX 10″ next year, and also on improving the technology of image multiprocessor systems.

“Segment computers intended for enthusiasts must constantly evolve. There is no room for downtime. So refresh Spider (AMD platform designed for enthusiasts) and wypuścimy on 45 nanometer chip market in 2008. We will have at their disposal a new chipset for enthusiasts and certainly highendowych will present a new family of graphics systems on the platform Leo in 2008, “he said during AMD Technology Analyst Day Rick Bergman, one of the heads and general manager of graphics products.

Unfortunately, still little is known about the family of AMD products, code named R700. From what I stated publicly known that the new graphics cores will support the possibility of DirectX 10, PCI Express 2.0, the engine ATI Avivo HD video, universal video decoding (UVD), DisplayPort link, as well as technology multiprocessor systems ATI CrossFire graphics.

The new family of products will be manufactured using 55 nanometrowego the manufacturing process, which is already available in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). Therefore, if AMD successfully and flawlessly executed its plan and does not connect with each other Prime Minister Nanometrowych 45 CPU from 55 nanometrowymi graphics systems, a new family of systems R700 may occur in the first half of 2008. Therefore, as soon as possible needs to ATI, particularly that the two families in the form of the ATI Radeon x1000 and ATI Radeon HD 2000 appeared on the market much later than competitive solutions from NVIDIA Corp..

Well, one year after the premiere of the first card is compatible with DX10 still not seen a single game written specifically for new DirectX 10 API, and manufacturers will no longer wonder how the players have hit later DX 10. Complete madness.