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Intel, the world's largest microprocessor manufacturer, has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire physics middleware provider, Havok Inc.
Online reports are hinting that AMD is gearing up for the launch of a new graphics product called Radeon HD 2900 PRO.
According to Japan's Nikkei newspaper
Sony is going to sell its advanced semiconductor production facilities to Toshiba come
Spring for 100 billion Yen (870 million USD, 625 million EUR).
Emergent Game Technologies, the company behind the middleware solution
Gamebryo Element, has just announced support for the Nintendo Wii. The Wii joins the PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 as
platforms supported by Emergent's game engine. No particular technical
information about the Wii version of the engine…
NVIDIA's design investment into new GPU architectures doesn't just apply to consumer products. The company, like AMD, have one eye on the professional space at engineering time, the result being a pro product line with almost as much depth as their consumer offerings. With Quadro FX 5600 and 4600 already…
Monday saw the update of NVIDIA's Shader Library, a repository of shader samples for developers to reference while producing their 3D applications.
NVIDIA have made available 163.67 in beta form, improving compatibility and perf for Crysis and BioShock in the main.
Information about the future successors of the RV610 and RV630, found
respectively in the Radeon HD 2400 and 2600, has been unearthed. The
always unable to keep a secret sources close to graphics card
manufacturers told DigiTimes that AMD's DirectX 10.1 entry-level and
mid-range graphics processor would be known under…
A german publication has posted an interview with Todd Hollenshead, id Software's CEO, that reveals id Software and John Carmack are no longer as committed to Linux as they have been. Todd's words also imply that the Windows version of id Software's next game, Rage, will use Direct3D rather than OpenGL.
HP have sent an email out to the great and good in the hardware and analyst community pledging their support for upcoming AMD quad-core Opteron in their server offerings.
Freescale have licensed AMD graphics IP for use in their i.MX range of multimedia-focused application processors.
The Taiwanese based manufacturer Hon Hai
Precision is now assembling Sony's PlayStation3 alongside ASUSTeK Computer.
For the last week, AMD has been sending tremors through the Linux community. Yesterday we reported on one of their promises coming to pass when documention of the internals of the RV530 interfaces showed up on the web. Today, we can add that the new Linux driver for the HD 2xxx series is also availble.…
As promised by AMD, register specifications for their modern graphics processors are starting to become available. Today saw the availability of the 2D, VIP and bringup registers for RV630 and M56 (Mobility Radeon X1600), on x.org.
Japan-based Nikkei has released sales numbers for all three major next gen consoles today.
Speaking at an Australian tech show, an AMD spokesperson suggested that Fusion based systems, expected to ship in late 2008 or early 2009, will initially focus on the integrated notebook market. This kind of thinking has been expressed before from the AMD camp, so by itself it is not news.
It's Monday, it's the 10th of the month, and there's a north-westerly
blowing past my office window. "What could that mean?!", I hear you
all cry. Why, Catalyst 7.9 of course.
After months of fevered doubt and speculation, Sunnyvale CPU maker AMD finally announced today the release of its latest server-oriented processor, and first quad-core architecture, the Quad-Core Opteron, a processor most know by its codename “Barcelona.â€
X-bit labs, via Newhua, have pictures of the next generation Ageia PhysX processor on PCI Express.
eWeek are reporting that Henri Richard has joined Freescale to head up the company's sales and marketing.