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AMD to stop production of single core Athlon processors

26th Jun 2007 @ 00:12:00 - written by Farid  
According to sources close to motherboard makers, reports DigiTimes, come September, AMD plans to withdraw its Athlon line of processors from its single core offerrings and will propose new Sempron models for the entry level single core market.
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Japanese Developers Changing Horses?

25th Jun 2007 @ 15:03:00 - written by Stefan Salzl  
The Nihon Keizai Shinbun is reporting both in its online and print versions that various Japanese development houses are reallocating their resources from Sony platforms to competing Nintendo consoles.
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PSP: Full Speed Ahead

23rd Jun 2007 @ 16:04:00 - written by Stefan Salzl  
Shacknews was able to confirm with Sony itself earlier rumours on PSP Updates regarding a MHz speed bump for the PlayStation Portable CPU.
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The Port Report, part deux

22nd Jun 2007 @ 07:07:00 - written by Geo  
Since our last visit, the Articles section is now complete. For your viewing and reminiscing pleasure, we have several more blasts from the past to remind you of.

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Stringer: PlayStation 3 is a key driver of Sony's future growth

21st Jun 2007 @ 23:11:00 - written by Farid  
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."
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NVIDIA MCP78 to launch sooner than expected

21st Jun 2007 @ 14:02:00 - written by Rys  
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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European analyst Screen Digest takes on future console sales

20th Jun 2007 @ 22:10:00 - written by Stefan Salzl  

The London based market research firm Screen Digest took a closer look at the prospects and future developments of the console market. The report highlights the different challenges all three manufacturers face.

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US chip fabrication equipment sales rise in May

20th Jun 2007 @ 22:10:00 - written by Farid  
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.

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Refining Wii accelerometer data with Kalman filtering

20th Jun 2007 @ 19:09:00 - written by Farid  
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…
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Intel release hardware VP driver for G965 under XP

20th Jun 2007 @ 14:02:00 - written by Rys  
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.
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NVIDIA CUDA 1.0 released

25th Jun 2007 @ 21:09:00 - written by Tim  
NVIDIA has released version 1.0 of its CUDA programming framework, with a number of new features including asynchronous kernel calls and 64-bit Linux support.
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Video gaming growth not about to stop, except for US PC market, says report

23rd Jun 2007 @ 21:09:00 - written by Farid  
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…
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Intel Larrabee set for release in 2010

22nd Jun 2007 @ 18:40:00 - written by Arun  
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…
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Steam to evolve and get on the community centric bandwagon

21st Jun 2007 @ 23:11:00 - written by Farid  
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.
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Capcom CEO on Online Games and Distribution

21st Jun 2007 @ 17:05:00 - written by Stefan Salzl  
Bloomberg interviewed Tsujimoto Kenzo, CEO of Capcom, on his company's future outlook on network based and distributed games.
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Analyst iSuppli upgrades computers shipment forecast for 2007

20th Jun 2007 @ 23:11:00 - written by Farid  
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…
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NVIDIA ranked 3rd in fabless semiconductor industry

20th Jun 2007 @ 22:10:00 - written by Rys  
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.
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NVIDIA Tesla: GPU computing gets its own brand

20th Jun 2007 @ 20:30:00 - written by Rys  
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.
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Shacknews preview Valve's Team Fortress 2

20th Jun 2007 @ 15:03:00 - written by Rys  
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.
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NVIDIA launch GeForce 8400 GS

20th Jun 2007 @ 14:02:00 - written by Rys  
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.
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