The ATI Senior Product Manager Terry Makedon revealed many information about the recently released X700 and catalyst drive, and he also pointed out that the LINUX driver support plan of ATI will be significantly advanced in the next few weeks. He said ATI has three important goals in the Linux field. At present, Linux users have reached 4%, and ATI will not ignore this part of the market, and the power of investment will also be proportional to its market share. ATI reconstructed Linux driver team and added many new developers. The ATI improves the test steps, including a large number of new test methods such as automatic testing, making the test more efficient. At present, the primary task of ATI is to develop Linux drivers for PCI Express products and support AMD 64. SUSE NOVELL is expected to provide more details in the next few weeks. In addition, according to Makedon, the current ATI's X800, X600 and X300 series PCI Express chip shipments have reached millions of pieces. And Intel and ATI cooperate in the PCI Express Working Group. In addition, he also mentioned that the subsequent catalyst drive panel will provide automatic update feature, and will also have more complete color and video management, and support ATI's full range of graphics chips. At the beginning of October, ATI will release Catalyst AI to analyze and provide optimal graphics performance. However, this Catalyst AI will only optimize games and applications without any optimization of the benchmark test. Makedon reveals that this Catalyst AI will be optimized for DOOM 3 and can get 22% performance improvement. From: News
