crossfire open access

The support of solutions in the field of multiprocessor graphic subsystems, created WITH ATI and NVIDIA (CrossFire SLI, respectively) up to now remained, with rare exception, the privilege of chipsets its own development of these companies. In this there is nothing bad: after spending large efforts for the development of technologies, companies expect to extract of them maximum profit. In also the time, the assignment to other producers of possibility to add the support of solutions indicated in its chipset could prove to be justified in the long-term outlook for â€“ as step toward a increase in the market share, envelopped other one or solution or another. Fact more that, if we speak about CrossFire, precedent is â€“ of the chipset intel p965 and 975X.

According to the data of source, AMD plans to open the architecture crossFire for the independent producers of system collections microcircuits. The corresponding initiative was called Open multi-GPU chipset platform. Specification, which is located now on the stage of rough copy, determines that any chipset with two nests 16x PCI- E will be able to ensure the support crossFire. Thus, not only Intel, but also VIA, SIS and even NVIDIA can add the support crossFire into their products.

In the opinion branch observers, Open multi-GPU chipset platform is completely foresighted step from the side AMD and favorable for the branch as a whole. From one side, it positively will affect the popularity Of crossFire. Not only AMD will obtain the benefit: it is assumed that the openness Of crossFire can force NVIDIA to open its architecture, after changing the situation, when the release of chipsets remained the lot of two producers.

Crossfire open access

CROSSFIRE OPEN ACCESS