Beyond3D Featured ContentNVIDIA Fermi GPU and Architecture Analysis
The timing could barely be better! ATI launch a new line of graphics processors and what do we do? We finally get round to looking at Fermi. Alex was at the controls again for this one, beating GF100 in GeForce GTX 470 form up with a new suite of software and a very deep, in-depth analysis of how the majority of the chip and architecture work. It's the de-facto public analysis and a must read.
ATI have unveiled a new high-end Radeon aimed at the performance crowd, powered by an improved GPU and available at a seriously keen price.
Advanced discussions of computer architecture are often still constrained to generic processors and serial computations. And yet, there is so much more. This article hopes to serve as a primer to help explore both classic and exotic architectures in the coming months, right here on Beyond3D.
Mazatech have released the next major build of their OpenVG libraries, adding support for OpenVG 1.1 in the process as they consolidate the codebase. Software and OpenGL-based versions are available for a wide range of regular and embedded platforms, making it highly portable.
Ahead announced support for NVIDIA's CUDA in Nero's Move it application today at CeBIT. The encoder is targetted at people wanting to create AV for mobile devices like the PSP, iPhone and T-Mobile G1, and for low-def online use on places like YouTube, but it can also do Full HD…
NVIDIA have taken their 55nm G92b graphics chip and repurposed it for notebook use, creating GeForce GTX 280M and GeForce GTX 260M in the process.
Intel and TSMC announced yesterday that they were joining forces, with TSMC integrating Intel Atom technology into its product offering.
NVIDIA release GeForce GTS 250 at CeBIT today, reworking GeForce 9800 GTX+ to create something with a name that invokes the heady performance heights of recent GeForce GTXs, without using GT200 as the GPU under the hood.
Last week, EETimes.com reported that TSMC executives reached a concensus that this recession would be U-shaped, with a rapid rebound in the coming quarters. But Morris Chang, the founder and Chairman of TSMC, seems to have a very different opinion of what's going on.
For a long time, SiS has hinted that they'd refocus on the SoC market, and their latest announcement finally shows one example of what they meant by that: HDTVs. However, they have recently hinted that they'd remain in the southbridge market, and that likely means a focus on Intel's DMI…
It's frequent to see people claim this or that power number is too high to be used in a mobile phone, or so low it'll result in amazingly long battery life. A recent document from Texas Instruments gives detailed numbers for OMAP3 and implicitly PowerVR's SGX, and so might help…
NVIDIA introduced a number of new Quadro products today, along with SLI Multi-OS which, amazingly enough, allows for full 3D acceleration in guest OSes for virtualization. A beta version of their CUDA raytracing solution has also shipped to their partners in early March.
VIA have announced the VX855, a single chip system processor designed to be paired with one of the company's x86 CPUs in small form factors. Notably, VIA claim the integrated Chrome 9 HCM graphics core is capable of high bitrate 1080p video acceleration, including H.264.
Not sure about the ALL CAPS myself, but AMD, ATIC and MDC's joint venture finally got its final name, logo and presence on the Internet.
Everyone seems to have their own interpretation of the Intel-TSMC deal, with some viewing it primarily as an outsourcing announcement, and others focusing on the IP aspect. But from our perspective, it also seems much more complex than that and Intel's statements are far from straightforward.
Spotted over at The Tech Report, the Graphics Products Group at AMD have taken wraps off the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860 and HD 4830.
AMD, the Advanced Technology Investment Company, and Mubadala Development Company have put final ink on paper to create The Foundry Company
Users of the Windows 7 beta whose PCs sport NVIDIA GPUs will be pleased to hear that the company has released new drivers. 18x.xx series code, the new 181.71 drivers support CUDA, SLI and PhysX where the hardware is capable, along with WDDM 1.1 support for G80 and up.
Qualcomm has announced new chips that integrate their proprietary Scorpion CPU (ala Cortex-A8) and ATI's OpenGL ES 2.0 GPU (which they now own). They're on TSMC's 45nm process, but unlike some of their other chips they do not integrate RF. That is, if the other ones did in the first place.
Back in 2008, we talked a few times about AMD's Propus chip - basically a Deneb with no L3 cache and 5-10% lower performance in desktop applications - and how important it is to AMD's prospects in desktops. Now Fudzilla claims a 45W EE SKU is slated for early Q2 and others for early Q3.
ClearSpeed, a parallel computing company based in the UK and a direct competitor to GPGPU, seems to be giving up on its current strategy: following revenue of only £0.5M in 2008 and losses of £10.4M, the CEO has resigned and our info tells us that nearly all remaining staff are being laid off