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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.
AMD today announced a new extension of the SSE SIMD instruction set in the form of SSE5, a fairly radical upgrade that will arrive in 2009 with the "Bulldozer" core.
Jon and his crew of merry analysts have crunched the Q2 numbers and come up with a summary. Q1 might have just been a blip on the radar.
One of the rare negatives brought up by gamers during discussion about BioShock, the latest game from Irrational Games, now 2K Boston and 2K Australia, was its quite draconian online activation system. Acknowledging this outcry from their customers and fans, 2K games decided to raise the number of authorised online…
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, the CPU co-developed by Sony,…
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, halt, and view folding operations remotely from
anywhere…
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.
Yes, we are aware that it's not just NVIDIA and ATI/AMD that's made discrete video solutions in recent years. To prove it, we haul out from our vaults three examples now returned to publication.
Not Crime Scene Investigation, as much as I'd like it to be, but Common System Interface, Intel's next generation system interconnect technology.
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 lets…
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.