ATI and ASUS. Big news.

[rashly]

http://www.necxdirect.com/hai/prod_page.html?key=0000163272&nonce=guest

This wasn't confirmed, the dealer probably put this on their site before they were allowed to. I don't think the announcement was formally made yet. I guess ATI will allow others to make boards for their chips from now on. Smart move. Learn from the mistakes of 3DFX.

[Cisco Kid]

I think that what is posted is a mistake. Heard nothing of this at all in techy news, but ya never know.

Cisco Kid:D

[Zuck Gou :)]

Hrmm, I dunno. Would become interesting though if it is true.

[Mr.Lansing]

Ummmmmmmmmm
Interesting...

[Oni]

An ASUS Radeon? Um . . . its possible, but ATI has always made their own stuff, so I don't know what the benefit would be. It could be a mistake, though. Everybody sees that Asus and a mighty f*ckload of other companies make boards for nVidia, so maybe the people who designed the site put that up and thought it was true.

[rashly]

Also this:

"Power Magic Multimedia announced its ATI RADEON 8500 and 7500 based cards


Besides, the company will introduce a wide range of other ATI products:
PM8912-991-1304 - ATI Radeon VE, AGP, 32MB SDRAM, 2xVGA outs, TV-out

PM8912-991-1404 - ATI Radeon VE, AGP, 64MB SDRAM, 2xVGA outs, TV-out

PM8912-991-1302 - ATI Radeon VE, AGP, 32MB SDRAM, 2xVGA outs

PM8912-991-1402 - ATI Radeon VE, AGP, 64MB SDRAM, 2xVGA outs

PM8912-980-1305 - ATI Radeon VE, AGP, 32MB DDR SDRAM, DVI and TV out

PM8912-970-1301 - ATI Radeon VE, AGP, 32MB SDRAM, TV-out
Volume shipments to start mid October "
-Cazza20 from the x3dfx discussion board.

[Quizno]

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/story.html?id=1001904216

either this is one wildly spread rumor, or 32d party companies are gonna be making ati based boards.