Beyond3D Featured ContentNVIDIA Fermi GPU and Architecture Analysis
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.
InformationWeek has an article on AMD performances on the stock
exchange market, following a last week press release from AMD
announcing that yet another stock exchange, Borsa Italiana, chose AMD
solutions, Opteron processors in this case, for its computational needs.
Intel’s only high-end CPU entirely based on a RISC architecture CPU, targeted toward servers, Itanium, was the centre of the talk Diane Bryant –Vice President and general manager for Intel's Server Platforms Group- had with reporters during a press conference held at San Francisco, last week, reports EE Times.
This past week NVIDIA announced the availability of FX Composer 2 (Beta
3) for public download, marking the first time a beta revision of the
shader-authoring software has been made publicly available. Key feature
set highlights include cross-platform support for DirectX 9 and OpenGL,
as well as HLSL, COLLADA FX…
Our singular forum member one stumbled upon an article published in the
Japanese magazine, Tech-On, about a presentation made by Toshiba
Corporation Semiconductor Company, at the 2007 Symposium on VLSI
Circuits at Kyoto, showcasing a new implementation of a Streaming
Processing Unit (SPU), the same processor found in the STI…
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.
Electronic Arts, leader in video games publishing, announced yesterday its decision to categorise its main business into four different and independent labels, all based on the model created by the Sims’ team
Emergent Game Technology’s middleware solution Gamebryo, which we presented in earlier articles (part 1, part 2), announced yesterday the release of the 2.3 version of its famous game engine.
Bringing you up-to-date on console sales worldwide, we have compiled data for two major regions, North America and Japan.
Lonestar Inventions LP, a Texan electronic products maker, alleges in an early June complaint brought in front of the Tyler federal court (TX) that Nintendo Company, Limited is violating one of their U.S. patents –filed in '92, issued in '93- relating to a method to enhance substrate-based capacitor…
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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