If this is old news, then I'm sorry. But just read this from nVidia's homepage about Intel's new AGP8x interface. Seems nVidia secured a deal to produce the first cards capable of utilizing the this new feature. Read below:
Read more information about this at nVidia
Sounds interesting. What I want to know is, how will this impact 3DFX and AMD?
INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM — SAN JOSE, CA, August 24, 2000 — NVIDIAR Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) announced today will be the first 3D graphics company ready to deliver a product to benefit from Intel's new AGP 8X interface, the next generation of the parallel AGP interface. Like AGP 4X it is a 32 bit wide bus, but the new specification allows a doubling in speed to 533MHz. Intel is releasing the rev 0.9 specifications in August 2000. NVIDIA and Intel have been engaged to gather feedback and validate the implementation in the AGP 8X specification
Read more information about this at nVidia
Sounds interesting. What I want to know is, how will this impact 3DFX and AMD?