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All your questions about the great nemesis of graphics, and some of its cures, answered in one fell swoop. Would you kindly jump right in?
Originally expected to start shipping by October, the latest
chipset from NVIDIA, MCP78, will finally take off by November.
Amongst the three chipsets from the MCP78 family scheduled to launch
this November, only two support integrated graphics capabilities.
Intel just announced the details pertaining to the San Francisco Intel
Developer Forum, taking place 18-20 September of this year. Other than
its theme, “multiply your innovations,†Intel also issued the listing
of the company keynoters.
Microsoft yesterday released fourth-quarter and year-end numbers for the fiscal year ended June 30th, 2007, reporting just over $3 billion in earnings for the quarter on the back of $13.37 billion in revenues. For the year, total revenues were up 15% to $51.12 billion, with net income up roughly $1.47…
AMD reported their 2Q results yesterday evening at the close of business. They include elements in which both optimists and cynics will find support for their views.
Silicon Knights, developer of the upcoming Xbox 360 game Too Human, has filed suit against Epic Games over alleged flaws in Unreal Engine 3.0.
Valve’s online content delivery platform continues to steam ahead of its competitors. The latest publisher to jump aboard the Steam bandwagon is THQ. Publisher of Relic Entertainment games, amongst many others, the American company decided to bring some of its catalogue offering to Steam.
The multi million seller Xbox 360 shooter from Epic games, Gears of War, was announced at E3 to be on its way to the PC. This title published by Microsoft Games Studio, unlike Shadowrun and Halo 2, will be Windows Vista and XP compatible right out of the box. What…
In a surprise announcement today, Peter Moore stepped down from his position as corporate vice president of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business (IEB). He is to be replaced by Don Mattrick, former president of the Worldwide Studios at Electronic Arts (EA).
With widespread adoption of GDDR4 on graphics products yet to happen,
it's a little surprising to see GDDR5 engineering efforts get press
coverage this soon. Qimonda have recently announced they're skipping
GDDR4 engineering and production altogether, and now it's Samsung's
turn to quietly announce their GDDR5 intentions on new roadmaps.
Our Hexian compatriots were there on launch yesterday with analysis of a couple of Intel's new processor offerings, both riding Intel's latest bump of AGTL+.
AMD’s current high-end offering in the desktop space, the Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (Windsor core, 90nm, 3GHz, 2MB L2 cache), is expected to hand over its flagship title to a new variant of the Athlon 64 X2 family, the Athlon X2 6400+. This new part has the mission to take on the new high-end dual-core…
NVIDIA has released FX Composer 2 RC1, which includes various bug fixes and minor improvements over the previous beta.
The Leipzig GC Developers Conference (GCDC) organisers released yesterday the list of the speakers confirmed for this year’s event. Taking place in Leipzig, Germany, this August 20-22, this GCDC will be the fifth edition of what has become one of the most important game developers gatherings…
Just a quick one to say we're rejigging things in our cab in the datacenter tomorrow, which might result in some minor downtime. Shouldn't be much more than half an hour for a couple of spots in the day, but we'll keep you posted.
AMD have released Catalyst 7.7, their July monthly display driver release for this year. There's a round of fixes and improvements as usual, with the big addition being edge detect AA support for all chips in the new family. Finally I can finish testing the bloody things.
Speaking on the SquadXP podcast, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Xbox Live group product manager Aaron Greenberg confirmed that there will not be any real X07 event held in Europe this year. This news does not come off as a surprise since Microsoft hasn't made any announcement with regards of the X07…
Intel announced quarterly revenues of nearly US$9B yesterday, with net income of US$1.35B, despite fighting AMD very aggressively in the consumer microprocessor market in recent quarters.
Yesterday the good folks at The Tech Report reported on an issue affecting a good chunk of GeForce 8800 users, where 3D graphics performance would fall into the toilet at random and wouldn't come back until you restarted the game or tabbed out and back in.
Taking a look at JPR's recent post-Computex analysis last week, one story caught our eye. SiS are ramping up for Intel Penryn, and their Mirage 4 D3D10 IGP is core to supporting that effort. With VIA arguably out of the way, SiS's positioning as an Intel partner could be key to their financial health.
In a common press release issued today, Intel announced its new laptop high-end CPU, the Core 2 Extreme X7800, but also new desktop parts. These desktop parts include the new company flagship, the Core 2 Extreme QX6850 quad-core processor.