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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.
Part of the myriad things we do here at Beyond3D when covering a graphics
architecture is go as deep as we can with the personnel at the IHV that actually
architected, concocted, designed, built and shipped the thing.
Digitimes reports that both major Add-In Board (AIB) players, Micro-Star International (MSI) and Gigabyte Technology forecasted strong growth in their shipments of graphics cards and motherboards for 2007, during their respective annual shareholder meetings.
ATTILA, the GPU simulator under development at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Spain, has a new website that shows off just what the program can do.
Or so ExtremeTech argue. Instead, they say that the games promised by EA will use TransGaming Cider technology to get the games running on OS X.
Figures released by Jon Peddie Research for Q1 this year in the workstation market hold some surprises, not least that the share for 2P workstation by AMD Opteron has fallen to levels AMD last experienced back in Q3 and Q3 2005.
A few weeks ago, we had the opportunity to speak with Luxtera, which has come to prominence in the display industry for their role in the recently-ratified DisplayPort standard.
Don't have Steam and can't see the Team Fortress 2 preview from Valve that features Heavy Weapons Guy? HEXUS.tv have the video available.
Adding to their existing mobile D3D10 line-up, NVIDIA are launching GeForce 8700M GT today to sit alongside 8600M and 8400M-series products already launched.
AMD has released its flagship D3D10 demo, requiring Windows Vista and a compliant graphics card. AMD recommend their HD 2900 XT hardware, and indeed that might be the only product to run it just now.
Earlier today id Software's technical director John Carmack demonstrated his company's newest engine, id Tech 5, on an unsuspecting crowd at Apple's WWDC conference. After many low resolution photographs of the projection screen having surfaced on the internet, the first videos emerge showing the demonstration in full.
In the wake of the continuing streak of underperforming sales, in the US and in Japan, and average sales in the EU, of its PlayStation 3, Sony once again went on record to talk price strategy. This time the talk came from the top and in a pretty clear-sighted manner. Talking with the Financial Times,…
By means of its new official blog, Sony Computer Entertainment announced a new firmware update for its PlayStation 3. Released today, the update only introduces a small XMB patch, intended to fix a bug that would see XMB revert RGB options to HDMI users from “Full†to “Limited 
The well-known Japanese developer Capcom announced, in its latest press release, its resolve to increase its presence in the PC market by proposing titles from their portfolio on Steam --Valve’s digital distribution service.
HEXUS have taken a look at an overclocked GeForce 8800 Ultra that competes for the title of fastest consumer graphics board in the current climate. The only problem is the asking price.
X-bit Labs have taken a good look at the worlds first USB-input PC display in the consumer space, Samsung's SyncMaster 940UX. Driven by a DisplayLink DL-120, the 1280x1024 940UX takes USB video input as well as DVI and VGA.
So, we get asked --"How's it going republishing the content from the old site?" Reasonably well, thank you, if slower than we'd like. New old content does show up pretty regularly though, and if you're missing an old friend it's worthwhile to check to see if it has reappeared recently.
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We're a little late to the party in terms of reporting the news, Beyond3D's [maven] let the forums know that Microsoft had demonstrated some new visualisation technologies at TED this year.
We're a bit slow to let folks know about this, but the June 2007 revision of the DirectX SDK and related bits and pieces has been released by the good folks at Microsoft.
Ever since Microsoft announced that v10 of Direct3D would only run on their new Vista operating system, various folks have sniffed a marketing ploy by the software giant rather than a legitimate technical requirement. Even such luminaries as John Carmack have promoted this theory. Well, if this is true,…
Four weeks after the launch of the Radeon HD 2900, AMD has announced that the Radeon HD 2600 and 2400 are now shipping to board manufacturers.