Following on from the 110nm TSMC based NV43 chip, NVIDIA have adopted the same process for NV44. Whilst the NV43 derived 6200 has 4 fragment pipelines disabled from the NV43 6600 configuration, the NV44 chip is designed specifically for the entry level market so only 4 fragment pipelines are built into the chip, although it does still retain the same number of Vertex Shader units as NV43, standing at three. Although the NV43 based 6200 chip still has 4 pixel output units (ROP’s) the pipeline diagram on the previous page indicates that NV44 only has two – this is no surprise given the memory bandwidth and latencies it will be dealing with and because processing time is being increasingly spent within the fragment processors.