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Novell have released the first alpha-quality display driver for R5xx and R6xx-based Radeon graphics products, for openSUSE, following the release of register specifications by AMD.
NVIDIA have released a ForceWare 163.69 display driver, WHQL-certified for Windows Vista. It makes us lament that there never was a 69.69 driver release, but we digress.
AMD are officially announcing that, following a couple of days of out-in-the-open speculation, triple-core Phenom processors are being added to their roadmap.
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…
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.
HotHardware are reporting that some Intel X38-based mainboards might augment NVIDIA nForce MCPs in order to support NVIDIA SLI on those products.
The first peak at Intel's 45nm Penryn processor technology came yesterday at IDF, as Intel took the wraps off of Harpertown, a full Penryn implementation in Xeon form.
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…
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…