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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.
Ho hum. Another quarter, and more record results for NVIDIA. In what is typically a seasonally down quarter, the graphics maker obliterated pre-announcement consenus results of $860M in revenue by throwing down with $935.3 million instead.
The PCI Special Interest Group, which controls the PCI Express specification, looks set to draft the 3.0 revision of the interconnect by the end of 2007, for review process and refinement in 2008, with devices and hosts appearing in 2009.
With some of the updates in the two patches relating to graphics, it's worth letting folks know about a pair of pre-SP1 official updates from Microsoft that fix some issues in Windows Vista.
Hot on the heels of the $50 price cut, Microsoft confirmed that its $349 Xbox 360 console now includes an HDMI port, suggesting it could be the much-anticipated 65nm "Falcon" revision.
MAXON, the guys behind Cinema 4D, a 3D DCC app commonly used in film and TV, have released version R10 of their popular Cinebench application.
Autodesk, software company behind the likes of 3ds Max, Maya and Inventor, announced on Monday that they'd acquired Skymatter Inc, creators of Mudbox. Mudbox is a brush-based modeling tool primarily aimed at those looking to create high-resolution meshes.
Imagination Technologies are celebrating their PowerVR Insider program at SIGGRAPH this year, with its success since its launch last year a high point for the Kings Langley-based company.
After using NVIDIA's G84 chips in its MacBook Pro, Apple announced a new version of its iMac today, which will be powered by AMD Radeon HD 2400 and 2600 GPUs.
As expected, Microsoft announced that it has reduced the price of its Xbox 360 console by $50 on August 8, bringing the system's price to $349.
AMD have announced new FireGL workstation graphics products at SIGGRAPH today, based on their R600 and RV630 ASICs currently used in desktop graphics products.
Formerly known as Longs Peak, the OpenGL Architecture Review Board officially announced OpenGL 3 at SIGGRAPH yesterday during the OpenGL Birds of a Feather session! Sweet!
With the current AMD R6 and NVIDIA G8x architectures released, analysed and mostly understood, attention is starting to turn to what the two biggest graphics IHVs will release next.
The DirectX Bad Boy, Sam Glassenberg, introduced D3D10.1 to the assembled 3D masses at SIGGRAPH yesterday, in a short but sweet portion of the D3D10 presentations now available for download from Microsoft.
NVIDIA launched a new Quadro Plex VCS 1000 yesterday at SIGGRAPH. The Model S4 is effectively just the
Tesla S870 GPU Computing Server repurposed for Quadro-led apps.
AMD have released an emulation environment for developers to start creating OpenGL ES 2.0 applications using the PC, before their supporting hardware in the handheld space starts to ship.
Scan are selling 1GiB Radeon HD 2900 XTs for £269 inc VAT, today only, down from their usual price of £288 inc. That's a good chunk less than the other online retailers we know of in the UK that are selling the 1GiB boards.
Microsoft have licensed unknown graphics intellectual property to Weta Digital, the guys behind the digital effects of The Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong movies, among others.
NVIDIA today announced the release of the third volume in its GPU Gems series of books, which contains new articles from developers with Crytek, Havok and many more.
Toshiba today announced its third-generation of standalone players for the HD DVD optical format. Continuing with the naming scheme established thus far, the entry-level model will be the HD-A3, with the mid-range carrying the moniker HD-A30, and the top-end named the HD-A35.
At the tail end of the Develop Expo and Conference this year, AMD held their Tech Day to talk about D3D10 graphics development, multi-GPU, multi-core CPU programming and more. Designed to educate games developers so they get the most out of AMD GPUs and CPUs, it's one of the only free tech tours the…