South Island is here! AMD Publicly Demonstrates Radeon HD 7000 for the First Time

At a media conference in San Francisco, Calif., AMD demonstrated for the first time the development of the Radeon HD 7000 series next-generation GPUs code-named the "Southern Islands". However, it was not a finished graphics card but a mobile development platform designed to show that AMD will On-time release 28nm process new product determination.

AMD said in a statement: “Today we’re giving everyone a preview of our upcoming next-generation 28nm notebook discrete graphics card, running Codemasters’ top racing simulation game “Dust 3,” proving that we’ve been working hard on the 28nm process. , and it already brings a great gaming experience."

By convention, it is impossible for AMD to publicly display the specific architecture of the chip (VLIW4 or GCN?) and specification information. It is not even possible to remove the heat sink to let everyone know what it is. The only thing that can be confirmed is that its function is completely normal. , and ready for final production.

Unfortunately, the progress of TSMC's 28nm process was slow, and news of AMD and NVIDIA's quotations increased. It is not known if AMD can take out new process chips in batches as scheduled.