I've not posted this anywhere just yet, tomorrow I will take better pictures. A Falconfly first!

Today a parcel arrived, send by the founder of Bitboys Oy.

The Chips are Rev A and Rev B, Rev A is not functional due to a small error in the factory, it's missing an insulation layer, so when the chip is brought up, it instantly destroys itself.

After the Rev B chips were delivered, the factory who had the edram production shut down because of non profit, killing the project. At that time BitBoys Oy already had a cell phone architecture working, which they managed to sell, so thank goodness they didn't shut it's doors.

Both chips are signed by Mr. Tuomi himself.

In time Bitboys Oy was bought by ATI, then by AMD. The whole Bitboys crew still works at AMD.

More info on Bitboys here :

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/bitboys/default.asp



The 3D Ref Board has got the Rev B chip on there (which is the only one known outside the company to my knowledge)

I've just emailed him for some more info on the board with the pin socket (which I believe the Etec adaptor plugs into) It's got G3D ref board on it, which is odd.

exxe wrote on 12.01.09 at 21:52:14:


Hi, I just emailed you, because you had mentioned it before.

If you have a closer look at the G3D ref board, it's really completely different then the other board. Radically different I would say actually.

G1nX wrote on 12.01.09 at 23:34:36:


There are no reworks on the card. There are on the Pyramid3D, but not on this one.

It should fully work, but he told me that when they got the Rev B chips back they were already fully working on the mobile graphics architecture,  they never had the time to properly bring up the device. They did just enough testing to see that the bus interface was working and could access the internal registers.

It should work, but who knows, I asked him if there were any efforts made anything on the driver side, he should email me back tomorrow. The chances of that are practically zero.

I suppose you could call them reworks yes lol.

It must be one of the later boards, this one doesn't have the reworks (actually got more)

http://www.hwsw.hu/kepek/hirek/2002/08/bitboys5.jpg

Got an email back, he said he would get back to me a bit later regarding the questions I posed.

He did say that they've got 2 or 3 such boards at the office, and this one being the only one outside of the company.

wow.

paulpsomiadis wrote on 13.01.09 at 21:08:57:


Good questions, I wonder too.

I wonder if it might be a, oh my goodness.....

I think it's a Glaze3D reference board!!!!!!!        

G3D! Think about it! Oh my goodness, if true this is even more rare, since the Glaze3D never came to silicon.

exxe wrote on 13.01.09 at 21:24:10:


That part was the daughter PCB carrying TV signal coder. The production PCB board would have had integrated.

Judging from the size, that must have been it.

I will ask if one of the daughter boards is still in the office.

That G3D board has got to be a Glaze3D reference board, it has got to be, it can't be anything else I don't think.

He took out all the parts in a hurry and put them in the box, I had to send pictures back to remind him what he put in there!!!