Lidt ny info om Kyro 3:

"The STG5500 will feature four pixel-processing pipelines, as well as a hardware-based transformation and lighting engine. While the hardware T&L will nominally place the Kyro on par with the latest Radeon and GeForce chips, Fu did not say if the engine will be programmable, a benefit Nvidia touts.
The STG5500 may be branded as "Kyro 3," Fu said. The chip will shift to a 0.13-micron manufacturing process, while the core speed will be increased to about 250 MHz, he said.
Because the Kyro's tiling architecture reduces the required memory bandwidth, the STG 4xxx-series parts have used cheaper single-data-rate memory, Fu said. But the STG5500's new core will require the increased bandwidth of DDR memory. The chip will support up to 64 Mbytes of frame buffer DRAM, consistent with earlier versions."

Kilde: http://www.extremetech.com/article/0,2299,s%253D201%2526a%253D2529,00.asp

Så det ser ganske lovende ud - og hvis Kyro3 ankommer inden jul, så er der for alvor lagt op til kamp mellem Radeon2, GeForce3 og Kyro3. Husk også på, at PowerVR, som står bag Kyro, er samme firma, som leverer grafikchips til SEGAs aktuelle spillehalsmaskiner (såsom Ferrari F355 Challenge osv.), så Kyro3 bør på ingen måde undervurderes.

Her kan du se specifikationer på Kyro2 Ultra og Kyro3:

http://www.3dconcept.ch/cgi-bin/show.cgi?show=2438

Ny og meget interessant information er dukket op vedr. Kyro3, som ser ud til at være helt på niveau med GeForce3. Kyro3 har således også programmérbare pixel og vertex shader, kernehastighed på 250 MHz og understøtter DDR-ram. Så Kyro3 kunne godt blive lidt af et monster, når det bliver annonceret til november (og udkommer vel i første kvartal af 2001, så det er klart til Doom3 og Unreal2). Så nVidia har nu meget mere at konkurrere mod end blot Radeon2. Her er beskeden i dens fulde længde:

"David Harold, PR-manager of Imagination Technologies, told the german game magazine PC Action that the kyro3 GPU besides a T&L-Pipeline and 4 rendering pipelines will also have support for programmable directx8 pixel- und vertex-shader. Support for DDR-RAM was also confirmed. the magazine also writes that the official announcement of the kyro3 will not be before november. The game mags homepage:

http://www.pcaction.de/

the info is in its july-issue.

information is from: http://www.3dconcept.ch/cgi-bin/show.cgi?show=2468 where you will also find a chart with (now official) kyro family specs. With the targeted core clock of 250mhz( http://www.extremetech.com/article/0,2299,s%253D201%2526a%253D2529,00.asp ) and 4 pipes the kyro will have 20% more real fillrate (1gigapixel) than the geforce 3, with no overdraw included in the calculation..It sounds too good to be true, lets hope that imgtec will deliver this year."

Kilde: http://www.aceshardware.com/board/general/read.php?message_id=55005013

Lidt nyt om Kyro 2 ULTRA og Kyro 3:

"STMicroelectronics Kyro II Ultra chip aka STG4800 is still currently under developement and slated to release by this year end. Other than the clock speed, the specs of the STG4800 is the same as the normal KYRO II aka STG4500.
The clock speed will be above 200Mhz instead of 200Mhz initially thought but how high above 200Mhz is still not confirmed yet.

For the KYRO III, the reason given for its delay is due to the development of KYRO II Ultra which takes more time than expected. The KYRO III chip will be ready by this year end but the fastest date to get the card out is Q1 2002."

http://www.vr-zone.com/#1786

Så Kyro 3 ligger næppe på hylderne hos danske hardware-forhandlere før vinter/forår 2002.

Så er alting vist ovre for STMicrosystems Kyro3 (som nu er konstateret død i fostertilstanden :-). Grundet omfattende økonomiske tab har STMicrosystems netop udsendt pressemeddelelse om, at de ikke længere vil udvikle grafikkort til PC. Du kan læse pressemedelelsen her:

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020208/72636_1.html

Så nu er der vel kun Nvidia, ATi og Matrox tilbage (samt et Bitmap Boys Oy spøgelse, som flagrer rundt, men indtil videre ikke har kunnet manifestere sig selv), men det er vel også en hård branche at begå sig i efterhånden. Nuvel, det kunne være, at vi alle skulle holde et minuts stilhed for Kyro3 :-)

Kunne være at matrox skulle ovretage det så kan de være med igen.:-)

Locudo

Det her lyder vildt...
Men kyro 3 kommer tilbage....og noget tyder på at det bliver mere end bare tilbage. ATi og nVidia for ihvertfald noget at se til!!

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20030529063322.html

http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6104&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9754

Jeg kan umiddelbart føre det hele tilbage til beyond3d

Det ser ud til, at PowerVR og Kyro stadig er i live; her er lidt nyt om "PowerVR’5 Series 5":

"We are close to delivering our very high-end next generation graphics technology that targets arcade, PC and console. We have already licensed this technology to SEGA for use in arcade systems and intend to explore relevant partnerships for other markets."

Læs mere her - dog er der næppe grund til at holde vejret, før bjørnen er skudt :-)

http://www.beyond3d.com/#news12637