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A year after the introduction of its successful Core processors line, Intel announced today the availability of a new high-end mobile CPU, the Core 2 Extreme X7800 mobile. Following the nomenclature established for Intel’s bleeding edge desktop processors, this new mobile dual-core runs at 2.6 GHz, has 4MB of L2…
In an interview with IGN, Tim Willits, co-owner of id Software, developer of some of the most famous and advanced for their time 3D engines, says that his company’s latest engine was not created with the goal to make latest PC graphics cards beg for mercy. This time, the engine…
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AMD has issued a press release announcing that Dave Orton, former CEO of ATI, is leaving the company as one of its executive VPs at the end of this month.
Dean Takahashi, journalist and author of “Opening the Xbox†and “The
Xbox 360 Uncloaked,†reveals in his blog that Microsoft is preparing to move the chips powering its Xbox 360 console to a 65nm process. This new hardware revision is known under
the codename “Falcon.â€
At the Develop Conference and Expo this year, AMD are holding a free tech day for games developers, in association with Microsoft, to discuss game development on the PC using Windows XP and Windows Vista.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has been quoted as stating that European Blu-ray sales have increased over 1000% since the launch of the Playstation 3 this past March, with over 180,000 Sony Pictures BD films purchased to date in the territory.
According to GameDaily, BIZ Sony is going to drop the price of the PlayStation 3 by $100 next week, bringing it to $499 coming next week.
Always near Taiwanese AIB partners’ most talkative employees, DigiTimes are reporting on upcoming notebook chipset offerings from AMD. The entry level M740G chipset is set for a Q3 2007 release, while the middle and high-end parts, dubbed M780G and M780T respectively, are expected to launch early next year in Q1…
Today Nintendo unveiled a camera for its handheld console, Nintendo DS
NVIDIA has announced the release of a sample CUDA plug-in for Matlab that accelerates single-precision FFTs by up to 14x.
Yesterday was a rather strange day for driver releases from NVIDIA with the release of two sets of Vista Forceware beta drivers, versions 162.22 and 163.11.
With the fire in Damage Labs extinguished and good time spent with the boards, The Tech Report have published their analysis on Radeon HD 2400 and Radeon HD 2600.
Sony has announced that effective immediately, the price of the 60GB Playstation 3 has dropped to $499 in the United States; Canada has received a drop as well, taking the system to $549 in that country. Though officially denied by Sony just days ago, the cat was let out of the bag when a recent Circuit…
It's been a good while since Beyond3D last tried its hand at graphics AIB analysis, so to shake off the cobwebs and get our collective asses back in the saddle, we pestered Galaxy for one of their customised GeForce 8600 boards when…
Microsoft today made the surprise announcement that they will be extending all XBox 360 warranties to three years with regard to their application towards the "red ring of death" issue (other hardware issues will remain addressed via current 1-year coverage). In supporting this move, MS is expecting…
An article in the Wall Street Journal this past Tuesday shone a light upon the ongoing investigation by the European Union's antitrust regulators into the business practices of both the Blu-ray Disc Association and the HD DVD Promotion Group.
Citing an analyst from the French financial group BNP Paribas, Economic Daily News (via Digitimes) is reporting that the major semiconductor foundry TSMC will see its shipments grow 30% in the third quarter of the year. This one third increase is explained by the analyst to be a result of a strong demand…
It being summer blockbuster season, when much-loved golden oldies make their reprise on the stage, Beyond3D offers the return of the following for your delectation. . . .
ZDNet's Technical Director, George Ou, has called the latest round of pre-release Barcelona performance data by AMD, blatantly deceptive, cherry-picked and simply wrong.