go thinner go wider
Featured Content Beyond3D Featured Content

Diving into Anti-Aliasing

All your questions about the great nemesis of graphics, and some of its cures, answered in one fell swoop. Would you kindly jump right in?

NewsWeek, with a little help, takes on Wii as Gamecube 1.5

24th Sep 2007 @ 19:11:00 - written by Geo  
It's always nice when the MSM (Main Stream Media) has the sense to dig up specialists to help in communicating complicated subjects. For instance, our gaming editor, Farid Bouzid, recently got to chatting with Newsweek's N'Gai Croal about the techincal specifications of Nintendo's Wii.
Read news item | More in this category | Comments (127)

 

Crytek postpone Crysis beta until October 26th

24th Sep 2007 @ 13:01:00 - written by Rys  
Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli has announced that the official demo for his company's latest FPS endeavour, Crysis, has been postponed.
Read news item | More in this category

 

John Carmack reaffirms Linux support (and OpenGL for now)

21st Sep 2007 @ 08:08:00 - written by Richard Connery  
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…
Read news item | More in this category | Comments (5)

 

NVIDIA release 100.14.19 display driver for Linux, Solaris

20th Sep 2007 @ 12:12:00 - written by Rys  
NVIDIA has released version 100.14.19 of it display driver for Linux (x86 and x64) and Solaris (x86 and x64 too).
Read news item | More in this category | Comments (1)

 

Intel X38 mainboards might use nForce MCPs to support SLI

20th Sep 2007 @ 11:11:00 - written by Rys  
HotHardware are reporting that some Intel X38-based mainboards might augment NVIDIA nForce MCPs in order to support NVIDIA SLI on those products.
Read news item | More in this category | Comments (1)

 

Intel 45nm Penryn-based Xeon unveiled at IDF

19th Sep 2007 @ 10:10:00 - written by Rys  
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.
Read news item | More in this category | Comments (1)

 

Intel nab physics middleware provider Havok

17th Sep 2007 @ 14:02:00 - written by Rys  
Intel, the world's largest microprocessor manufacturer, has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire physics middleware provider, Havok Inc.
Read news item | More in this category | Comments (30)

 

Retail seemingly ready for Radeon HD 2900 PRO

17th Sep 2007 @ 13:01:00 - written by Rys  
Online reports are hinting that AMD is gearing up for the launch of a new graphics product called Radeon HD 2900 PRO.
Read news item | More in this category | Comments (2)

 

Sony to sell advanced semiconductor facilities to Toshiba

15th Sep 2007 @ 09:08:00 - written by Stefan Salzl  
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).
Read news item | More in this category | Comments (4)

 

Gamebryo 2 Engine now available for the Wii

13th Sep 2007 @ 08:08:00 - written by Farid  
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…
Read news item | More in this category | Comments (2)

 


NVIDIA release 163.71 ForceWare beta display driver

24th Sep 2007 @ 13:01:00 - written by Rys  
Are you a fan of PT Boats: Knights of the Sea, or Team Fortress 2? Does the PC you play said games on sport an NVIDIA graphics chip? If both conditions evaluate to true, you might fancy taking a look at 163.71.
Read news item | More in this category | Comments (1)

 

Xbox 360: Focus shifts from Japan to Europe?

21st Sep 2007 @ 16:02:00 - written by Stefan Salzl  
According to a Bloomberg report today, Microsoft is now shifting its priorities to Europe in order to gain a significant foothold in the global video game market.
Read news item | More in this category | Comments (111)

 

Toshiba announces 'SpursEngine' SPE co-processor

20th Sep 2007 @ 19:07:00 - written by Carl Bender  
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…
Read news item | More in this category | Comments (2)

 

Initial R6xx and R5xx display driver relased by Novell, following AMD opening specs

20th Sep 2007 @ 12:12:00 - written by Rys  
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.
Read news item | More in this category | Comments (1)

 

NVIDIA release 163.69 ForceWare WHQL display driver for Windows Vista

19th Sep 2007 @ 10:10:00 - written by Rys  
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.
Read news item | More in this category | Comments (1)

 

AMD add triple-core processors to desktop CPU roadmap

18th Sep 2007 @ 00:00:00 - written by Rys  
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.
Read news item | More in this category | Comments (4)

 

Freescale Licenses AMD Graphics Technology

17th Sep 2007 @ 13:01:00 - written by Rys  
Freescale have licensed AMD graphics IP for use in their i.MX range of multimedia-focused application processors.
Read news item | More in this category | Comments (1)

 

Hon Hai Precision to manufacture low-price PS3?

15th Sep 2007 @ 15:02:00 - written by Stefan Salzl  
The Taiwanese based manufacturer Hon Hai Precision is now assembling Sony's PlayStation3 alongside ASUSTeK Computer.
Read news item | More in this category | Comments (15)

 

AMD releases highly anticipated Linux driver for HD 2xxx series

13th Sep 2007 @ 14:08:00 - written by Geo  
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.…
Read news item | More in this category | Comments (30)

 

Register programming spec for RV630 and M56 available on x.org

12th Sep 2007 @ 20:08:00 - written by Rys  
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.
Read news item | More in this category | Comments (15)

 

Older Beyond3D News

Click here for Beyond3D news older than 12th Sep 2007