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XGI Pits Volari Against Nvidia, ATI
Leo Chan - Thursday, September 25th, 2003 | 10:47AM (PST)
PCI Express support also planned for graphic cards next year
The Inquirer learns straight from the CEO of Xabre Graphic Inc. (XGI), CP Lin, that the SiS graphics chip subsidiary is confident in its chances of putting up a fight against its far more established rivals, Nvidia and ATI:
"XGI believes that it can break the duopoly of the other two graphics vendors by offering comparable performance. And that, [Lin] said, is being helped by the fact that the tight grip the Big Two have on their partners, who make the cards.
That, he claimed, gave XGI a heaven sent opportunity which it is bent on exploiting, with the firm aiming to achieve profitability by 2005 and – a bold claim this – to be market leader by 2007.
He described the current situation in the development of graphics chips as “crazy competition” and said he thought the increased expenditure on R&D means that the big players are running out of resources."
You'll recall that XGI's offerings will be the Volari series of graphic cards. Some initial information regarding the cards are available here, and meanwhile The Inquirer writes of more performance features for XGI's dual GPU products. In addition, they learn of a PCI Express product on the horizon for XGI, also featuring a custom GPU:
"Lin said that the dual process on the two high end reference cards allow two frames to be processed at once. That results in a performance figure of around 1.7 – having the two chips yoked together, each processing its own frames and its own memory. People building and branding its boards can choose from DDR and DDR2.
XGI is developing a custom chip – the XB306 – which will support PCI Express by taking a bus bridge approach. While PCI Express will eventually supplant AGP, Lin thought that process would take around a year."