28 Dec
2010
28 Dec
'10
11:59 a.m.
On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:02:06 -0500
Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
As far as I have googled they are just
i860 dice, four in a big
multichip package. AFAIK the Extreme GFX is just the same as the Elan
GFX of the Indigo, but with more geometry engines.
Well. The
Extreme GFX for the 1st generation (teal R4k based) Indigo2
puts 8 i860 geometry engines in a desktop machine...
Those aren't i860s, they're custom chips. Big ones.
Did they implement the i860 architecture? The Extreme video subsystem is really nice.
Well. Impact is nicer and VPro even nicer...
(I shoud get a Fuel some day...)
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