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.
While Larrabee is likely what many graphics enthusiasts and engineers
are pondering upon right now, it is hardly the only FP-rich project
going on at Intel. Further details have emerged today on Intel's
Terascale chips, also known as Polaris. Anandtech has a full article on the subject, and…
PCI-SIG announced yesterday
that the PCI Express External Cabling Specification had been completed.
The spec is compatible with PCIe 1.1 and will be available in link
widths up to 16x. However, it is not compatible with the recently-completed PCIe 2.0 spec (PDF).
Having to endure a lot of unfamiliar criticism recently thrown their
way due to shoddy Vista drivers for their graphics hardware, NVIDIA has
made an encouraging announcement in a short piece on PC Perspective.
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…
Clearly NVIDIA has gotten the message that the community is sincerely irked about the state of Vista drivers. As we reported yesterday, they have committed to monthly releases of ForceWare for at least the foreseeable future…
About a week ago, we published a news piece on DRAMeXchange's market share numbers for Q406, but noted that we found some of these figures suspicious because they didn't match those previously provided by Mercury Research. We contacted DRAMeXchange, and got a good explanation on this discrepancy: Mercury…
DailyTech claims to have some new information on the MCP72, NVIDIA's next-generation mid-range and high-end chipset for AMD platforms. It will be NVIDIA's first chipset supporting HyperTransport 3.0…
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…
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