Now in XGI, the unit from Trident will focus on Notebook market and the one seperated from Sis will focus on Desktop. Two series of chip will both be supported currently. But from the next chip , two chips will be merged into one. The h/w will be redesigned and all the driver will be re-coded.
Also, both trident and Sis have the linux driver, which is release with Linux OS, for almost all their own chips.
-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Deucher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 5:30 PM
To: Thomas Winischhofer; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Alex Deucher; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Dri-devel] XGI?
I wonder how the new company will be with respect to giving out
datasheets? like sis or like trident?
Alex
--- Thomas Winischhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Russ Dill wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 11:03, Alex Deucher wrote:
> >
> >>Is anyone on either of these lists familiar with XGI? It seems to
> be a
> >>new GPU manufacturer consisting of a merger of Trident and the SiS
> >>graphics division.
> >>
> >>here's their website:
> >>http://www.xgitech.com/index.htm
> >>
> >>They have some interesting products products (dual GPU solution).
> Some
> >>of their other stuff looks similar to existing SiS and trident
> >>products. They mention linux support, but I see no links to
> drivers
> >>anywhere. does anyone know anymore about this company? Are they
> >>writing xfree drivers or with any existing drivers work with these
> >>chips? SiS has has a bad record of giving out specs on it's newer
> >>chips; trident I guess has been a little bit better.
>
> I guess this company will do it like SiS did in the past: Make the
> chips, but leave the integration into boards to other manufacturers.
> (The "embedded-and-customized"-hell will never end...)
>
> My bet would be that ECS and MSI will be among the first to design
> boards for these chips.
>
> > SiS spins off their 3D buisness and it gets named Xabre
> > Trident buys/merges, whatever with Xabre, and the new company is
> named
> > XGI
> > I think they it became official on the 13 or 14th, don't remember.
> So
> > for now, its just the Xabre products and the trident products
> > (cyberblade2, etc).
>
> The "Volari"'s specs look indeed like the Xabre's, except for that
> "Cipher" video processor and the dual-GPU option. Apart from this
> (and
> 3D, of course), these chips should be well supported by the current
> SiS
> driver (well, as soon as I get the PCI IDs)
>
> Thomas
>
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