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| Sun, November 24 2002 | 9:20PM | PermaLink |
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Nvidia’s new K8-supporting chip for the Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) platform, the Crush K8, will come as a single chip solution with the AGP controller interface integrated into the south bridge chip (media communications processor, MCP). Nvidia demonstrated the product for the first time to certain customers at Comdex Fall 2002.
With AMD incorporating the formerly north bridge-based memory controller into its upcoming K8 processors, the role of the north bridge chip will become rather limited, Drew Henry, Nvidia’s senior director of platform product management said. As a result, Nvidia decided to include the AGP controller interface in the south bridge to shorten motherboard makers’ design time, he added.
Henry said that Nvidia plans to manufacture the chips on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s (TSMC) 0.15-micron process.
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