TheInquirer
reports that ATI's upcoming R600, its next-generation high-end chip, might
end up as the biggest graphics chip of all time. It won't be cold either.
Indeed, it might be the hottest chip ever, but they wrote that it might be the
fastest chip as well. Even though many have assumed the chip will be the same as
the one ATI supplies for the Xbox 360, it won't be. It will share a similar
design but won't have the integrated memory on die. It might have as many as
sixty four Shader units that would easily make it much more powerful than the
Xbox 360 graphics. At current schedules, the launch date is expected towards the
end of the year.