ATI have previously mentioned that their next generation, DirectX10 architecture would leverage much of the technology designed for "Xenos", ATI?s graphics processor developed for the XBOX 360, and we surmised that would equate to the R6xx generation featuring a unified shader architecture at the hardware level. In a conference call discussing their latest quarter?s financial results ATI?s CEO, Dave Orton, more or less confirmed that the next generation architecture will be unified, and suggested that they will be better off for it with the technology having a proving ground with the XBOX and R6xx effectively being their second generation unified architecture.

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