AMD is most likely very happy with the new Evergreen family but already during the second of this year we will see a new generation of graphics cards from ATI/AMD. AMD VP Dirk Meyer revealed this during a conference talk with analysts where he spoke of an update of the company’s graphics cards during the second half of 2010. Exactly when this will happen and what the new series will bring to top the current Radeon HD 5000 family is uncertain.
Back in October we reported on scattered details surrounding AMD’s next generation graphics cards, but whether this is the new graphics card architecture or a refresh of Evergreen is still to be revealed.
We have been in contact with several of AMD’s graphics card partners and so far no one has any distinct information on the next generation of graphics cards.
The Cypress GPU is the flag ship of the Evergreen family
Earlier stories have told us that Hecatoncheires is the name of the family and beside MIMD shaders there are rumors of 32nm or even 28nm. Even if TSMC recently announced that it will start mass producing 28nm circuit in Q4 2010 it feels a bit optimistic considering the problems at the 40nm node.
AMD will hopefully have something new and fresh to show as NVIDIA is about to launch the fresh Fermi architecture, but we can’t be entirely sure of anything at this point. We can be certain though that AMD is working hard on following up the success of the Evergreen and Radeon HD 5000 family.
