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To: Czechsinthemail who wrote (13071)	1/25/1998 9:27:00 AM
From: Maxwell	Respond to of 25960

<<Does anyone have any idea how big or how fast the graphics-related deployment of 0.25 production might be?>> Most graphic chips are designed be fabless companies. These companies foundry their design out to fabs such as TSMC, STG-Thomson, UMC, Merchant, etc. The best technology used for these products are .35um. The best 3D graphic chip available now is the nVIDIA Riva 128. It has 3.5M transistors fabricated on .35um with 5 metal layer. The die size is about 170mm2. It can proces 5GFLOPS on floating points and 15BOPS in integer pixel. It can draw 5M triangles/sec and 100M pixels/s. These foundries will move toward .25um this year. All the current capacities of .25um foundries now are reserved for CPU, then SRAM/memomory, then DVDs, then video chips. As the video chips get more powerful, with more transistors, and larger die size then the priority of video chip moves up. The nVIDIA chip is about max out with .35um technology. I suspect by the second half of this year we will see high end graphic chips fabricated on .25um technology. Maxwell