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The Hollywood Reporter published an article on future video gaming industry growth based on data collected in the annual Global Entertainment and Media Outlook from the market advisory company PricewaterhouseCoopers. At first sight, as the press release shows, everything is looking fine on the video gaming side of things, publishers…
Information Week reports that during a conference at their headquarters, Intel spoke to analysts and reporters about their future energy-efficient products, including Larrabee and wireless solutions. Justin Rattner, Intel's CTO, also noted that Larrabee will be their "first tera-scale processor" and that it is aimed at a 2010 release, or…
Valve issued a press release yesterday to announce a major update to its famous digital content delivery system, Steam. Expected to be available by early July, this update is said to be the largest the platform ever had since its commercial inception in 2004.
Bloomberg interviewed Tsujimoto Kenzo, CEO of Capcom, on his company's future outlook on network based and distributed games.
Macworld published iSuppli revised forecast for PC sales in 2007. Going from 10.7 to 11.2 per cent, the forecast predicts shipments will attain 264 million units for the year. The main ignition factor for this rise would be due to a higher-than-expected demand in PC laptops. Laptops accounting for almost…
NVIDIA have been ranked 3rd by revenue in the fabless semiconductor industry by the Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA). The ranking is based on first quarter revenues in all markets this year, with only Qualcomm and Broadcom, competitors of the graphics company in some markets, ahead.
Being able to witness the earnest birth of a new computing industry is a special thing. In the last few years, efforts to use programmable commodity graphics hardware for things other than graphics have gained pace, and now there's a legit multi-million dollar industry surrounding it.
Nearly 10 years in development according to the Shacknews preview, Team Fortress 2 will finally be out towards the tail end of this year, and it promises to be one of the gaming and graphical highlights on the PC in 2007.
NVIDIA G86 gets another run out today in a product named GeForce 8400 GS. The cheap entry-level GeForce 8-series marks the bottom of their current D3D10 performance ladder for around £35 inc VAT here in the UK.
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
Shacknews was able to confirm with Sony itself earlier rumours on PSP Updates regarding a MHz speed bump for the PlayStation…
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Associated Press reports what Howard Stringer, chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sony, said to his shareholders at the annual meeting. During his speech, Stringer made clear that his ambition for the company has now shifted from “recovery to profitable growth."
Digitimes are reporting that NVIDIA are accelerating the launch of MCP78, their D3D10 IGP for AMD sockets, in order for it to arrive before AMD 780G. With MCP68 late to market and possibly losing business compared to AMD 690G, it seems that's the incentive for that to happen.
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Semiconductor equipment and materials supplier organisation, SEMI, announced yesterday that orders for semiconductor equipment rose in May --about six percent greater than April and three percent better than May of last year.
For the vector mathematics fans out there working on Wii games, PC homebrew with accelerometers or even the PS3 SIXAXIS, Gamasutra has published an article on improving the input data results from small accelerometers, such as those found in the Wii controller or the PS3 one, by using a Kalman filter…
Intel have released a beta driver for their G965 IGP that enables hardware vertex processing under Windows XP. A driver that does the same for Vista is expected in the coming weeks.
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…