CeBIT 2007 - SiS talk up D3D10 plans with Mirage 4

Thursday 15th March 2007, 10:10:00 PM, written by Rys

SiS are getting closer to finalising their first D3D10 silicon with news from CeBIT that they're targetting Q3, possibly Q4 for the release of their Mirage 4 IGP, which supports the new D3D revision in hardware.

Mirage 4 looks pretty frugal, too, with a power target of less than 10W, and hopefully as low as 8W according to SiS staff talking to Beyond3D earlier. They've been working recently on finalising their hardware implementation with post-sim work in running FPGAs, simulating the silicon before the last revision of their tapeout schedule to bring it to completion.

A traditionally cautious company, SiS were nonetheless bullish about market acceptance of Mirage 4 when it finally comes to market, since the product family will encompass IGP products for all modern PC platforms and processors.

While they didn't have any samples to show at CeBIT, indications are that they're not too far away from that and the coming quarter should see them get the hardware finished. Computex might be worth keeping an eye on as far as SiS go.

graphics ± sis, mirage4

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