The Area core Of g80 for sure was pretty large. Overclocker think that to remove the heat- from larger core is simpler, the producer is perturbed by entirely other problems. For example, with the high prime cost of manufacture core, by the high risk of defects appearance , by the complexity of integration for functional units on one chip.
Associates communicated that AMD wait for the idea of the integration of all functional graphic core units on one chip. Strictly, NVIDIA partially realized this approach, after isolating managing the functions of input-output chip from the composition of graphic the core g80.
Approximately at the end of the following year must appear video chip ATI under the code name Of r700. As British associates claim, it will have modular structure, its elements will be single chips. It will more cheaply release them, and scale the performance of graphical solutions to that or other side it will be with a simple change in the number of united chips. Time for the development of graphical solutions must be shortened.
By the way, for the connection between components AMD can use its system bus HyperTransport . However, this only assumption and the characteristics of the real products of the following generation can be different.