Video card news.

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Firstly, Terry Makedon at ATi has cofirmed the release date of the next Catalyst Driver set, the 3.5s. There have been some leaked drivers going around that are not official, and he says use them at your own risk. Read the interview at Warp2Search

.....ATI reconfirms that the leak is an interim build. The official Catalyst 3.5 drivers will have the packaging number 7.90 and will be released on Monday, June 23rd, 2003.

Next is this article at X-BitLabs that claims the next generation ATi cards, the R420, is going to be twice as fast as the 9800 Pro. That's kind of hard to believe.

Sources with knowledge of the matter revealed that the graphics chip known under the code-name R420 and developed under project-name Loki will be two times faster than the original RADEON 9800 PRO.

Lastly, this artcle at Beyond3D that talks about problems nVidia is having with the 130 nm process. If this is true, nVidia is going to have some serious delays with there new cards.

.....One of the first things to be noted is that NVIDIA's yields of 130nm was still poorer than expected, and this was hampering supply (and profitability) of NV31 and NV35 chips. Presently the 5600 and 5900 series are on allocation....