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In a move that has been widely rumoured for a while, AMD has just significantly reduced the price of its entire CPU line-up, with the FX-74 moving from $999 to $799 and the Sempron 3000+ now selling for $31 instead of $41, making it cheaper than anything previously in AMD's…
Microsoft has just released the April 2007 version of the DirectX SDK, with improvements to XACT, PIX and the HLSL Shader Compiler. There's also a new sample illustrating "Effect Pools', which make it possible to share variable or shaders between effects, thus saving redundant state-setting calls.
SiS just released their monthly revenue information for March, while VIA had done it a few days ago, and both exceed expectations, with significant month-on-month increases; +76% for SiS and +39% for VIA. In both cases, it should be noted that February is traditionally a weak month, because of the chinese New…
DisplayPort, the competitor to the HDMI standard prevalent in the consumer electronics space, has just seen its 1.1 version ratified by its founding organization, VESA. The standard is described as being "free to use, open and extensible", which marks some contrast with HDMI's royalty fees which can exceed four cents.…
The Street is reporting that NVIDIA will launch a brand, similar to its GeForce and Quadro brands of cards, specifically for GPGPU apps. This follows AMD's launch of its Stream Computing line, based on its R580 chipset.
NVIDIA is now silently introducing the nForce 650i Ultra, and it should be available shortly. The motherboard will use the same chips as the nForce 650i SLI (C55+MCP51, while the 680i Series uses C55+MCP55) but will be substantially cheaper while the physical layout will only sport one x16 PCI-E slot, compared…
Intel, in a conference call with various members of the online technology press, have revealed some key details about their upcoming 45nm processor families. Penryn encompasses the evolution of the Core architecture on Intel's latest production process, while Nehalem is brand new, taking things to some new levels for the…
Digitimes is reporting that pilot production for TSMC's 55nm process by NVIDIA and AMD's graphics division has started, and that actual products will likely be available in early 2008. It was previously rumoured that NVIDIA's MCP79 single-chip IGP for Intel platforms would be one of the first 55nm chips around, but it remains to…
The folks at AMD have delivered the monthly installment of their long running Catalyst saga. Judging from the release notes, both the new features and fixes for Vista and Linux look to be on the tastier-than-usual side.
Today the veil that was sort of casually placed in the near vicinity of Microsoft's new Xbox 360, codenamed Zephyr, has been lifted to reveal the black Xbox 360 Elite, a new $479 SKU that will sit alongside the standard $399 Xbox 360 and $299 Xbox 360 Core SKUs.
In a move indicating Sony may be preparing to outsource production of chips beyond the 65nm process, they have opted to leave the research alliance formed with NEC and Toshiba in March of last year. Founded for the purpose of sharing the escalating research costs associated with 45nm fabrication, the…
This week's forum roundup includes a spectacular thread on anti-aliasing, anecdotes from developers about their first jobs in the game programming industry, and an update on Beyond3D_Team's Folding@Home efforts. Read on for the goodies.
NVIDIA have released ForceWare 97.94 for Windows XP (all flavours and both x86 variants), for users of their GeForce 8800 products. The release notes are light on details, but Beyond3D forum users report that the notes don't contain the whole story (sadly) and that fixes are in there for more issues…
A fairly extensive interview with AMD's Henri Richard, Executive VP and Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, was published at HardwareZone yesterday. It mentions a variety of subjects, and some answers could certainly be deemed quite interesting. At roughly the same time, TG Daily also published another…
EETimes recently published an interesting article on the rapidly rising costs of semiconductor fabs, process R&D and chip design. The comments in the article, by an employee of Synopsys and an analyst of VLSI Research, echo previous predictions made by TSMC's Chairman and Founder, Morris Chang.…
AMD have released their GDC 2007 presentations via their developer website. Highlights include AMD coding superstars Natalya Tatarchuk and Guennadi Riguer presenting alongside Crytek's Carsten Wenzel in the D3D-led sessions (which include a good chunk of D3D10 content), and Natalya presenting again…
On monday, Intel finally confirmed its plan to construct a new fab in China, at the northern city of Dalian. The company wants to have the fab operational in 2010, and they plan to use new technology and ideas to make it their cheapest fab operation in existence. The catch? It'll run on 90nm.…
Yesterday, PeakStream released a public beta of its PeakStream Workstation application for Windows XP. This version of PeakStream Workstation is a set of APIs for C and C++ to enable GPGPU progrmaming and a Visual Studio 2005 plugin for profiling and debugging...
According to Anandtech's teardown of the Apple TV, as well as an analyst which had the good idea of doing the same, the products' components are very PC-like. Indeed, the primary parts are a 90nm NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300 (G72) for rendering and video decoding acceleration, a 1GHz ULV Pentium M…
NVIDIA CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, has testified for his company in their case against 3dfx's creditors, in a case brought by that body. San Jose Mercury News reports that Huang puts no stock in the creditor's assertion that NVIDIA valued 3dfx engineers at USD $1M a head at the time of sale, rather…