AMD prepares DX10.1 part for AGP!! King of AGP upgrades!!

THE REMAINING AGP UPGRADE market will be all AMD's, itseems.
After HIS launched 2400 and 2600 parts for the AGP 4x/8x interface, we wereset for a swan-song for the connector which has hosted our graphics cards in oneform or another since 1997.
But AMD has decided to address the needs of this dying market with a DirectX10.1 part as well. Manufacturers only made the switch to PCI Express this year,with PCI E parts taking over from AGP ones.
With Nvidia screwing up the GeForce 8 series (G8x chips cannot work withBR02, Nvidia's own PCIe-2-AGP bridge chip), the market was left open for AMD'sX1950 AGP and different models from 2000 series. The 2900XT was just deliveredin small volumes to encourage AIB vendors to develop a special PCB with an AGPconnector. Also, power consumption was such that you would need two 8-pinconnectors in oder to compensate for only 35W delivered by an AGP connector(PCIe 1.0a x16 can deliver 75W). But, 2400&2600 will not go into the historyas the last AGP parts.
Since RV670 has advanced power features, the design of AGP board with thischip was not a pipe dream. 35W from the motherboard and a single 6-pin, 75Wdeliverable connector is all that's needed to power this 90-110W part.
We haven't seen the final AGP design yet, but the list of parts inside thebox reveals the truth. Radeon HD 3850 AGP will come to market bundled withfollowing parts:

ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP graphics card
6-pin PEG to Dual 4-pin Molex adapter
DVI to HDMI Adapter
DVI to VGA adapter
HDTV Component out adapter
Set-up CD
Manuals

It's official: these logos will accompany the PCIe and AGP parts
Well, it looks like our old AGP setups have some life in them yet. Let's seecan this part bring your old computer back from the dead, and get it ready toride in DX10 style.
This chip will be the most powerful AGP GPU of all time, unless the R700generation ends up supporting ATI's RIALTo bridge chip (or if Nvidia fixes BR02with G100 series). Date of introduction is the same as PCIe Gen2 parts, November19th.

C'mon seriously? What is wrong with AMD? Unless this project costed them no time or money, they're pretty much just throwing the towel down to Intel. Although Intel's Atom project seems pretty dumb to me, AMD is going back in time instead of focusing on future projects. Even the whole integrated video idea could have been held off for a bit, but too late for that - at least that was a success. Its hard being an AMD fan when it almost seems like they're trying to do worse. Nobody cares about AGP anymore and I'd rather have a way for DX10 to work on my 7900 than on something I'll never downgrade to. Unfortunately, that isn't up to AMD to decide.