Ati Radeon 9100 and IMFT’s 20nm Flash (PCGH-Retro 06 December)

…2002: On December 6, 2002, Ati launched the entry-level graphics chip Radeon 9100 with an AGP 8x interface. As with the Radeon 9000, Ati violates its own naming scheme with this GPU – according to which the first digit of the code should still stand for the Direct X version. In contrast to the faster and fully DX9-capable Radeon 9500 models (and higher), the Radeon 9100 (like the R92x0 series) only offers DX8 functions, namely it is only a Radeon 8500 LE (R200) with new BIOS. Later, Ati also launched a chipset with an integrated Radeon 9100, the first digit of the name meanwhile only stood for the technology generation, without reference to DirectX.

… 2011: IM Flash Technologies, IMFT for short, is a joint venture between the chip manufacturers Intel and Micron. The cooperation will pay off by December 6 at the latest, because like Intel reports, the joint venture has succeeded for the first time in producing an MLC NAND flash chip in the 20 nm format with a capacity of 128 GiBit. A package of eight of these chips should be able to hold one TiBit of data in the dimensions of a fingertip – eight chips correspond to one TiByte.

Further information
• Gibibyte & Co. – Binary prefixes
• On the first anniversary of Ati’s death: Stars, asterisks and non-starters – Which Ati graphics card did you have?
• AMD/Ati: Tech demos from 2001 to 2009