We have reported on the Bitboys Glaze3D chipset back in December in which a Finnish IT print publication called Micro PC claimed to have information on Bitboys developments. Even back in December Juha Taipale, general manager at Bitboys told Micro PC that they had silicon in production. Now it seems that Bitboys were showing their hardware - which may even be called Avalanche 3D - at Assembly 2002 a 3D demo scene party in Helsinki Finland. Bitboys is a finish company by the way.

The pictures seem to show one, maybe two different chips from Bitboys. The cards are protected by plastic casings and are not in use. Some cables are indeed connected but the cards were not plugged in an AGP port. There is no heatsink on the chips. From what can be gathered it looks like their are some 7ns SRAM chips on the board. SRAM (static random access memory) is much faster than contemporary DRAM. In addition, its cycle time is much shorter than that of DRAM because it does not need to pause between accesses. Unfortunately, it is also much more expensive to produce than DRAM. Due to its high cost, SRAM is often used only as a memory cache. The board shown seems to be dated 22/2/2002. Make up your own mind about those pictures: Check out full size pics | slow server Read our follow up story with more detailed information about the presentation at Assembly '02