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The timing could barely be better! ATI launch a new line of graphics processors and what do we do? We finally get round to looking at Fermi. Alex was at the controls again for this one, beating GF100 in GeForce GTX 470 form up with a new suite of software and a very deep, in-depth analysis of how the majority of the chip and architecture work. It's the de-facto public analysis and a must read.
Just a quick one to say that Techland have released the DX10 version of their Call of Juarez benchmark to the public, replacing the odd version press had for a bit with something you can all play with. Hooray!
Our Hexian friends have uncovered modern day D3D10 acceleration riding that shortest of buses found in a modern PC, PCIc. The combination of low-cost, low-power and decent features mean that joining old and new serves a niche or two.
GPGPU middleware developer PeakStream has been acquired by Google, according to The Register. Where this leaves the GPGPU development platform is unclear, although it has stopped selling the product for the moment.
A news story on AppleInsider seems set to confirm rumours we've heard in recent weeks that NVIDIA is going to provide the GPU for the upcoming MacBook Pro refresh. Indeed, Apple's online store is currently unavailable due to product updates taking place, and we believe the refresh is the reason.
Following a period of aggressive capacity build-out, DRAM suppliers are
now preparing to suffer through one of their toughest quarters in
years, as lower than forecast module demand has left them saddled with
a capacity overage that has resulted in massive price reductions.
Originally pursued in anticipation of Vista's release,…
According to Digitimes, TSMC is currently hoping to unveil their 32nm process in Q4 2009, which is approximately 24 months after the 45nm process that will become available in September of this year, and roughly as expected by Moore's Law. This is unlike the 45nm and 65nm transitions, where TSMC…
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…
GeCube are at Computex 2007 this year showing off a couple of interesting AMD RV630-based graphics board designs, one with a nice looking cooler and one that pairs two of them on a single board.
Sapphire are showing their full line-up of Radeon HD offerings at Computex 2007 this year, from HD 2900 XT down to 2400 PRO, with some interesting cooling solutions to boot.
We're not at Computex this year but our brethren over at HEXUS have made the trip, uncovering two RV630-based products by HIS that deviate from the norm. The first pairs two RV630s on a single die, the second bridges the chip to AGP, giving users of AGP one more reason not to bother upgrading to PCI…
According to Reuters, AMD is in talks with Tower Semiconductor Ltd., an Israel-based foundry, to sell their 200mm fab equipment. The information comes from a local newspaper, the Yedioth Ahronoth daily, which also claims that the equipment could be worth approximately $80M USD.
It is amazing how much information is out there in the wild, when you know where to look. TG Daily has just published an article partially based on a presentation they were tipped off about, and which was uploaded on the 26th of April. It reveals a substantial amount of new information, which we will…
SPECviewperf, the most widely used benchmark for workstation GPUs such as NVIDIA's Quadro and AMD's FireGL, has just seen its 10th version released. This release is for Windows XP and Vista, with support for Linux and Mac OS coming in the next few months. Its major new feature is FSAA benchmarking,…
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…