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.
AMD has released a new version of its Catalyst driver suite, as well as a new version of its Linux drivers. Highlights include official HD 2900 support on Windows and D3D10 CrossFire.
AMD and Toshiba have announced that Turion 64 X2 CPUs will be used in one fifth of future Toshiba laptops that should be available around July, because of their lower prices. Toshiba only sold Intel CPUs in the past seven years. In related news, AMD stated that they will slash Opteron 1S prices by 10…
Intel is currently researching data-parallel languages, reports EETimes. These languages would most likely be for massively parallel architectures, such as Larrabee and Terascale, putting them in direct competition with NVIDIA and AMD in the GPGPU market.
Released for download earlier today, PS3 firmware 1.8 improves upon the
media capabilities of Sony's console by incorporating many features
long desired by A/V enthusiasts. Having already earned a reputation as
an excellent Blu-ray player, today's update introduces 1080p/24hz
output support, allowing for the elimination of judder on film-based content…
In recent analyst conferences that were publicly webcast on NVIDIA's website, Michael Hara (VP of Investor Relations) has claimed that their next-generation chip, also known as G92 in the rumour mill, will deliver close to one teraflop of performance. In a separate answer to an analyst's question, he also noted that they…
Digitimes is reporting that TSMC's 65nm process production is now running "beyond 100%", indicating that their current facilities are now supply-constrained due to possibly unexpected demand. In related news, a recent interview with Chuck Byers of TSMC reveals that they plan to release their 45nm eDRAM low-power process as early…
A busy week saw the release of sales data from two major markets: The
April NPD sales numbers for the US and Canada and the weekly Media
Create sales data for Japan.
According to Bloomberg (Link) Sony may post the biggest 4th quarter loss in 4 years, mainly due to lower demand for Sony’s new PlayStation 3 game console.The projections would put Sony’s overall net loss at 75.8 billion yen ($630 million) in the FY 2007 Q4, a rise of…
Media Create released the sales numbers for the weeks April 23th to 29th and April 30th to May 6th, i.e Golden Week, a string of public holidays, and the week preceding it.
NVIDIA released their financial results for Q1 Fiscal 2008 yesterday, which corresponds to the period from January 29 to April 29, 2007. It came up very slightly above analysts' expectations, with gross margins hitting the magic 45%. GeForces had a record quarter, but on the other hand nForces were down…
It's not exactly new news at this stage, but worth confirming here for those that don't have our browser plug-in that forces you to read nothing but Beyond3D and icanhascheezburger: R600 doesn't have UVD.
The director of architecture for the Xbox 360 hardware has been interviewed on Microsoft's Channel 9. Nick Baker, ex-3DO, talks about the hardware design, the collaboration with ATI for Xenos, parallel programming constructs and multi-core program development, the stripped down version of the NT kernel…
Business as usual in Japan: The Nintendo DS is continuing to lead the hardware sales charts, followed by Wii, selling only half the units compared to the sales leader, and PlayStation Portable.
The folks at ExtremeTech are reporting that at a lunch with Penryn architect Stephen Fischer, the Intelite revealed that a new SSE4 instruction will improve the read buffer performance between CPU and GPU by a factor of eight. Fischer noted the high-priority pathway would bypass the usual caching and…
When you subtitle your article "How the designers of the HDMI standard screwed up, and what's to be done about it", then you better bring the goods in the text itself. Anti-DRM warriors can stand down, however, as Audioholics…
Real World Tech posted a very nice architectural overview of AMD's upcoming Barcelona architecture (also previously known as K8L or K10, with the apparently final nomenclature being 'AMD Family 10h processors'), comparing it both to its predecessor and Intel's competition in terms of Conroe and Penryn.…
New stable and unstable versions of Envy were made available this week by Alberto Milone.
Envy is a really practical Linux (Debian-based) application written in Python that automatically detects your video card, and then downloads and installs the latest driver version available for it.…
Envy is a really practical Linux (Debian-based) application written in Python that automatically detects your video card, and then downloads and installs the latest driver version available for it.…
While most of the Santa Rosa announcements in the ast week or so were based on Intel or NVIDIA GPUs, it looks like HP decided to use the upcoming ATI Mobility Radeon X2600 in their high-performance 15.4" Compaq 8510p Santa Rosa notebook. This is the first sighting of an OEM design win for AMD's upcoming…
At the same time as their announcement of the GeForce 8M family, NVIDIA also quietly released the GeForce 7050 PV + nForce 630a combo, which is a single-chip MCP/Motherboard GPU. It's an incremental update to MCP61, so there's not much new except HDMI and HDCP content protection, but NVIDIA claims that…
Our reporter, Carl Bender, always intrigued by compelling displays of technology, interviews Scott Kirkland, technical director of Evolution Studios, the UK based makers of the WRC series on the PlayStation 2 and of Motorstorm on the PlayStation 3. The latter - and its engine - are at the centre of…