I say possible because out of nowhere this week on the Matrox website the specs for a new G1000 chipset were published but quickly removed. Whether this was done as a hacker joke, or a mistake on the company's webmaster's part, you can find the specs here. Now some Matrox websites claim this is a fake but some sites claim it to be true. You be the judge, but dont say I didnt warn you. Watch out Nvidia and ATI, the old school guys are back. The G1000 is the world's FIRST DirectX 9 compliant Graphics Immersion Unit! Utilizing the eight-pipe Matrox Deferred Rendering Engine, it achieves over twice the performance of any other graphics solution in its class. Matrox G1000 chip running at up to 375 MHz, 105 million transistors Full support for AGP stand up to 8X 2 MB of on-chip unified textured, pixel, and geometry cache 64-256 MB high-speed Double Data Rate (DDR) memory Quad UltraSharp-II 400 MHz RAMDACs Capable of simultaneously powering for analog monitors/ flat-panels or four digital flat-panels Full DirectX 9 acceleration Support for 64-bit, 96-bit, and 128-bit color depths 150 million displacement-mapped triangles/sec 3 Gpixels/sec (visible), 12 Gpixels/se (depth complexity 4) 24 simultaneous textures, 48 pixel shader operations Support for extensive workstation features including: anti-aliased lines, two-side lighting and windows clipping Hardware assisted high-quality DVD playback (IDCT, motion compensation) Unified drivers Extensive OS support including Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME and 98, Windows NT Linux, and Mac OS X Optimized for latest Intel Pentium 4. Intel Xeon, AMD Athlon XP, AMD Duron, and Motorola G4 platforms The G1000 will be available in volume starting in June 2002, in models priced as low as $229 (MSRP) There will be two G1000 products available at launch, the Millennium G1000 and the Millennium G1000, shipping with Microsoft WHQL-certified drivers. The workstation, quad-display Millennium G1000 Pro and Millennium G1100 Pro will be available with certified driver in the fall 2002. These look like some pretty impressive specs, just hope they are true cos this card looks like it rocks. Source Link: Tec Nation
Also posted earlier: Matrox Parhelia Demonstration In China Yesterday! by Rancho* (he says that the picture is a fake)