Beyond3D Featured ContentIt's Dead Jim - a debate about the future of the graphics API
Love them or hate them, standardised IHV agnostic(-ish) graphics APIs have changed the landscape in a mostly positive way. Yet some bear them ill will. We set out for the truth about their future fate, hoping that we can handle it.
HKEPC is reporting
that SiS is planning to release DX10-compliant IGPs as early as Q3 of
this year, slated towards both Intel and AMD motherboards. The graphics
part of the chip will be marketed as the "Mirage 4", but no further
specifications are available. The overall platforms support…
Just a quick one to say that Microsoft have stuck to their bi-monthly
release schedule for DirectX updates with the usual set of downloads.
If you're a developer, the SDK will be of interest, as will the symbol files. End users will want …
If you're a developer, the SDK will be of interest, as will the symbol files. End users will want …
Continuing the theme in recent weeks of increasing signs and portents
of an impending launch of AMD's new DX10 flagship GPU, R600, Tom's
Hardware Guide (THG) is reporting that AMD has set a date
for the inevitable "Tech Day" to brief the technical press on the finer
points…
DRAMeXchange has just published their report on the motherboard chipset market for Q406, and VIA also released their January sales figures today. SiS, which also publishes monthly revenue
information, is expected to issue their press release anytime now.
NVIDIA apparently increased their share of…
In a keynote yesterday at DesignCon and as reported by EE Times,
AMD reiterated their goal to have Fusion available in the notebook
market by early 2009. At initial announcement of ATI's acquisition in
2006, AMD was presenting Fusion as a "2H 2007/1H 2008" product aimed at
"notebooks,…
Released yesterday, Sony's latest firmware update for the Playstation 3
has succeeded in correcting one of the more frustrating aspects of the
console's launch; horizontal scaling issues resulting in degraded
visuals across a number of legacy game titles.
Well, after a fashion. The Hexites have scored a partial screenie of AMD's luscious femme la graphique here.
Could it be we're starting to see some of the real milestones one would
expect to see once the snowball starts down the mountain to launch day?
We aren't ready…
According to Digitimes,
AMD and NVIDIA are about to increase their orders at TSMC for 65nm and
80nm, as they prepare to introduce RV610/RV630 (65nm) and G84/G86
(80nm). We can confirm that those are indeed the process nodes to be
used for these products, but we have not…
Since our previous report last November, the RV570-based ATI Mobility Radeon X1900 has decided to come out of the closet, with AMD's website recently admitting to parentage of the new high-end mobile solution. Today comes news of Alienware announcing the 17" screen m5790 Special…
A quick look at NVIDIA's website will reveal that they are currently looking for eDRAM engineers.
It's worth noting that they have never shipped any such design, and it
seems extremely unlikely to us that anyone in the industry is planning
to use eDRAM on products aimed at…
Last week during Sony's quarter-end earnings call, CFO Takao Yuhara
provided new insight into upcoming cost-cutting measures for the
PlayStation 3, including a move already underway towards 65nm
production for Cell.
Digitimes is reporting that AMD is indeed on track to deliver the 690 Series chipset family by the end of February. As expected, it is a two-chip solution, with the SB600 complementing the northbridge. We talked about…
Not satisfied with just one release of drivers for their flagship GeForce 8800 line during Vista launch week, NVIDIA have thrown down with a second set today. These are the 100.59 ForceWare, for both x86 and
As expected, NVIDIA officially released ForceWare version 100.54 for Vista for the 8800 GTX and 8800 GTS. NVIDIA's download page still points to 97.46 as the driver of choice for any earlier cards under Vista, so while 100.54 supports the GeForce 6 and 7 series, it might not be a good idea to use it…
Dailytech and Hexus both have a bunch of new mini-facts on Penryn today, among which what they claim is the first official die shot of 'Penryn'.…
AMD held their 4th quarter 2006 financial results conference call on Tuesday. In answer to a question about the timing of their next generation R600 GPU, AMD's Henri Richard, Executive…
Six weeks ago, job descriptions for Intel's Larrabee Development Group caused widespread speculation that the chip giant would be re-entering the discrete graphics marketplace. These speculations have now been confirmed…
According to VR-Zone, the rumours that the GeForce 8600 (G84) will be using a 256-bit bus are incorrect; instead the chip will still be using a 128-bit bus, like its mid-range predecessor (G73), a configuration which matches what we have heard.…
LaptopVideo2Go have their
hands on a Forceware 100-series driver for G80 and Windows Vista. Cue
the rejoicing (at least from us), despite obvious pre-release and
unofficial status.
At the just completed CES, NotebookReview found two MSI laptops, the ER710 and the GX710, that share an interesting characteristic. Both are powered by the "ATI X2600 Graphic Solution", which is presumably…
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