Beyond3D Featured ContentIt's Dead Jim - a debate about the future of the graphics API
Love them or hate them, standardised IHV agnostic(-ish) graphics APIs have changed the landscape in a mostly positive way. Yet some bear them ill will. We set out for the truth about their future fate, hoping that we can handle it.
Following the Todd Hollenshead interview posted by golem.de where he stated John Carmack was not as interested in linux, id Software's Technical Director has posted on Slashdot that, while a linux SKU of Rage is not in the cards, there will likely be a linux binary release once the game…
NVIDIA has released version 100.14.19 of it display driver for Linux (x86 and x64) and Solaris (x86 and x64 too).
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 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.
Toshiba today revealed the name of a new stream processor design focused on the consumer electronics space and derived from the Cell Broadband Engine architecture. Dubbed "SpursEngineTM," the new chip is to be demonstrated at this years CEATEC JAPAN running Toshiba's previously shown real-time…
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 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.