Quote Originally Posted by Pisu87 View Post
That's not the reference card, it's the Unika one.

I wonder why ATI decided to leave the switch chip as it is, it wouldn't have taken long to redesign it for 90 nm, 65, whatever, and have TSMC to make it way smaller than it is right in that picture.
Because AMD buys it from a 3rd party, i.e. they have no rights to the design and cannot have TSMC shrink it for them.
As to why they went 3rd party is because they are planning on integrating the PLX into R700.

Quote Originally Posted by cool_case View Post
How'd you determine that?
By knowing what he is talking about and doing research.