It looks like Nvidia won't go for DirectX 10 AGP parts. We still
find this very hard to believe as DAAMIT doesn't want to let this market down. DAAMIT
plans to launch an AGP based RV610 cards and only a few partners will be able
to make them. We assume that the cards will be quite complex to make.
We guess that ATI found the way to make it work via RIALTO
bridge chip. ATI plans to use the bridge chip on a new PCB and make even more
money out of its RV610 bridged marchitecture. It looks like Nvidia doesn’t want
to go this AGP way. At some point in May / June time the market should see the
dawn of ATI's DirectX 10 cards, probably named Radeon X2300 xx AGP.
We expect around $100 price mark for Radeon X2300 xx AGP but
not more than $115. A new hope for old upgrade market, it seems.