More and more information are on future series of GPUs Radeon. Recently it was announced that the next generation of Radeon chips will appear in the third quarter of 2010, but according to the source, timing of issuance of a new series of chips for graphics cards to a large extent depend on which of the producers of wafers AMD contract. If the contract will be awarded to TSMC, then most likely, new items appear on the market in the third quarter of next year, and may even be made on 28nm process technology. In case the contract will be awarded to GlobalFoundries, then for the preparation of the new AMD chips to release will be a bit more time, and they are in the best case would be presented in the fourth quarter of 2010. The next line of Radeon update will be done on the basis of a completely new architecture since the appearance of R600, on the basis of which were developed by R700 and R800.Judging from the beta drivers, the name of the new chips will R9xx, that is, AMD expects to begin mass production of these chips in the next six months or so.

Early last week was a rumor that future chips will be called ATI Radeon 100. Again rumored to be code names mobile versions of chips R9xx will Cozumel, Ibiza and Kauai (this is the name of island resorts). Probably, there will be more detailed information about the new graphics chips.