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.
Talking yesterday to reporters,
Yutaka Nakagawa, Executive Deputy President of Sony's semiconductor and
component device businesses, revealed their ambition to reduce
significantly the company’s semiconductor related expenses. He didn’t
predict any specific number, but stressed the costs related to Sony's
semiconductor operations would be much lower than the…
Way back in the spring of 2005, Dave Orton noted that it would be a
year of investment for his company (then known as ATI), while 2006
would be the year of benefiting from that investment. At the time,
observers took him to mean that the considerable effort that went…
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 (which in this case seems to be May). To further
enforce their…
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 Research most…
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 and the AM2+ socket (which is both backwards and
forward compatible with the original AM2 socket), as well as PCI…
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 the various
northbridge SKUs in a previous news piece.
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 x64. They appear to have a few improvements mentioned in…
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…
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'. Apparently, most
of the extra transistors (410M vs 298M for Conroe) will be used for
extra cache (6MiB vs 4MiB),…
Yesterday NVIDIA released an updated set of ForceWare drivers for
Geforce 8800 users who jumped on the Vista bandwagon. The drivers
primarily add support for the 8800 GTS 320MB, but also feature a few
game and control panel fixes, among other things.
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
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…
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…
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…
If you're a developer, the SDK…
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"…
DRAMeXchange has just published their report on the motherboard chipset market for…
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…
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.
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