As reports associate with the reference to sources among video card producers , the chips RV635 and RV620 will replace the existing now radeon HD 2600 (RV630) and Radeon HD 2400 (RV610) already during January in the following year.
First all RV635 and RV620 chips will be released on 55 nm technical process, whereas their predecessors are released on 65 nm technical process. The core frequencies can reach 800 MHz. TSMC Taiwan company will be occupied by the production of RV635 and RV620 .
RV635 and RV620 will bring directX 10.1 support , Shader model 4.1 and PCI express 2.0, in addition to displayPort.
The RV635 and RV620 chips models will appear already during October in the present year, announcement is planed during January 2008. Those Chips will use the printed-circuit boards with the same design as predecessors - this will maximally facilitate the migration from 65 nm products to 55 nm chips. Possibly, soon we will see the radeon HD 2650 and Radeon HD 2500.