Filed on 29 September 2003, ATI patent "Multi-thread graphic processing system" was granted on 31 March 2005 and although deals primarily with a multi-threaded graphics command queuing system this gives further evidence of a unified shader pipeline and also gives some potential insights into Eric Demers comments.

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