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Referencing his company's online hardware survey, Newell says, "Microsoft made a terrible mistake", in limiting DirectX 10 to Vista, saying it should be available on Windows XP too.
ExtremeTech have scored a podcast interview with AMD CTO Phil Hester. Phil talks about Fusion integration, Barcelona, power and thermals, custom logic and more, in a 30 minute chunk of the cast.
Taiwanese Add-In Board (AIB) manufacturer, MSI unveiled today two new
GeForce 8600 graphics cards. The originality of these models comes from
their tweaked video BIOS, making the G84 shader core run at a higher
clock rate. Another novelty is the presence of a switch on the Twin
Turbo model that…
Not the most Earth shattering news ever, but something for a quiet Friday afternoon at least. Intel have made live their official G35 chipset specification page which shows the IGP supporting the promised DirectX Shader Model 4.0.
Sony revealed several new non-gaming features for its PlayStation
platforms in the press kick-off to this year's Games Convention in
Leipzig, Germany.
HEXUS are reporting that Henri Richard, Executive VP and Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, is to leave AMD on September 8th.
The hottest new game causing tongues to wag and WASD fingers to sweat is 2K Boston/2K Australia's Bioshock. And, as is so often the case, the IHVs are rushing to provide optimized drivers for the new hottie on the block.
Today Microsoft announced a price drop for its European Xbox 360 models, matching a similar price cut in the US market earlier this month.
Sparkle have formally announced their PCI Conventional GeForce 8500 GT, bringing DirectX 10 to the shortest of modern buses.
Recently we reported that NVIDIA was cautioning financial analysts that manufacturing restraints could limit their growth in 2H to below the usually robust seasonality that comes with back-to-school and holiday shopping. Now comes a report from Digitimes focusing particularly on component shortages in the laptop market. . . .
TGDaily have sight of a report from "competitive response" analysts, Current Analysis, that says AMD grabbed a sizeable chunk of the US retail PC market in July.
The folks at CGSociety published a video late last week that looks at Ubisoft Montreal using Pixologic ZBrush 3.0 as part of their content pipe, looking at Assassin's Creed and Rainbow Six: Vegas in particular.
IBM and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) jointly announced the other day the creation of The Multicore Computing Center (MCC), a new supercomputing research facility, which should be operational by fall 2007. The research laboratory’s clusters will be powered by the Cell processor,…
AMD recently released new versions of GPU Shader Analyser and The Compressonator, adding DirectX 10 support to both, and more.
Sony Computer Entertainment America announced yesterday version 1.2 of its Folding@Home software client, bringing numerous feature updates to the Playstation 3 application. Chief among these, users will now be able to take advantage of 'RemotePlay' connectivity via the Playstation Portable to commence,…
As noted in our previous news item, "it's Bioshock Day!" and the graphics IHVs are rushing to assist in the celebration. Not to be left out, AMD is contributing a Hotfix to the party, since the "beta" model favored by their competitors is not to their liking.
While it would be a bit much to say that the news has been universally bad for the HD DVD camp in recent months, it would at least be fair to say that the tides have been running against them. Today, that's changed fairly dramatically.
X-bit Labs have asked the PCI-SIG for clarification on whether upcoming PCI Express 2.0 AIBs will work correctly in mainboards that only support PCI Express 1.x.
The good folks over at gpgpu.org have made available the supplementary course material presented during SIGGRAPH this year.
TSMC have announced that they're now fabricating the eDRAM die portion of the Xbox 360 GPU.