VIA Columbia GPU is expected to be released in Q4. Columbia is expected to run at a clock speed of 300Mhz and feature 4 pipelines with 2 texture units per pipe, a 128-bit DDR interface and DirectX8 (&9?) compliance. Columbia is expected to be built on a 0.13(?) micron process

Bitboys Glaze 3D boards are expected to be released in H2 2001. The Glaze 3D's XBA architecture will make use of embedded DRAM to allow exceptionally high fill rates, originally slated to be 1200 and 2400 MTexel/s before the release slippage from Q3 2000. Such huge fill rates will allow accumulation buffer effects such as full screen anti-aliasing to be used without a significant performance penalty. The Glaze 3D processor uses an 8 texel, 4 pixel per clock rendering pipeline and will run on a 0.17micron process. In order to supply the processor with enough data, Bitboys use their Xtreme Bandwidth Architecture, which makes use of embedded DRAM and a wide, 512bit memory bus to give up to 12.5Gb/s of memory bandwidth. The feature list of this chipset includes single-pass trilinear filtering, DirectX texture compression, AGP 4X support, environment bump mapping, multiple scaled video overlays, digital flat panel support and an accumulation buffer to support image quality enhancements such as full-screen anti-aliasing, depth-of-field effect, motion blur, soft shadows and soft reflections. The Glaze 3D will contain a transformation & lighting processor.

The original specifications for the first two Glaze 3D processors are outlined below. Note that these were based on a Q3 2000 release date with the chip running on a 0.2 micron process and no hardware T&L. Expect a higher initial clock speed and fillrate.

The Glaze 3D 1200 will contain a single 150Mhz Glaze 3D processor, and will be available in 41Mb (9Mb EDRAM, 32Mb SDRAM) and 50Mb (18Mb EDRAM, 32Mb SDRAM) forms.

The Glaze 3D 2400 will make use of two 150Mhz Glaze 3D processors running in parallel, and will come with 82Mb of memory (18Mb EDRAM, 64Mb SDRAM).

這些都是去年第四季發表的
不過好像遲遲未見顯示卡…
應該都是不錯的晶片