TSMC UMC food ATI 80 nanometer chip orders

Although the third quarter personal computer market seems busy season, but the graphics chip ATI or 80nm chip manufacturers to accelerate the drawing process of micro progress in low order in the market, including ATI and NVIDIA in order to compete for market share, plans to play the cheap cost and miniature 80nm.

Because Intel (Intel) and ultrastructure of the central processor (AMD) after the end of July to cut prices, coupled with Microsoft's new operating system Vista postponed to early next year before the listing, depressing the personal computer market replacement demand, so the domestic semiconductor factory for the third quarter PC related chip market views tend to be conservative, packaging manufacturers ASE operating officer Wu Tianyu it indicated that the present stage looks, chipset and graphics chip PC chip to see a large amount of orders, may have to wait until after September.

The third quarter of the chip chip season is not prosperous, but the two drawing chip maker NVIDIA, ATI is interested in the main low price war, the market share in the low order graphics chip market competition, where the most active ATI. According to the graphics card industry, ATI will take the existing RV515 (Radeon X1300 family) the low order drawing chip, divided into 128bit and 64bit memory controller three versions, while taking into account the cost of the low price competition, three new versions of low order graphics chip are using 80nm process.

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Graphics card industry pointed out that at present three new versions of low order graphics chip, 128bit RV516 will be appointed by the TSMC foundry, 128bit RV505 was appointed by the UMC foundry, while taking into account the low order NVIDIA graphics chip flagship 64bit version of G73 (7300GS/LE), ATI will also launch 64bit graphics chip RV505CE also, by the UMC foundry.

At present, the market of TSMC UMC third season drawing chip orders conservative, and that the capacity utilization rate has been loose, but if the ATI 80nm chip chip plan, high technology Jienai TSMC, UMC third quarter orders still buoyant, capacity utilization under repair the amplitude will be higher than the market had expected.

In order for the drawing part of ATI chip, has been using 90nm graphics chip RV530 (X1600) for process improvement, in order to launch RV560 and RV570 graphics chip using 80nm process (the rumors X1550/1700) two new versions, but the graphics card industry pointed out that the RV560 and RV570 operation efficiency will better than RV530, to wait until after the formal launch of new products will be more clear.