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.
DailyTech are reporting that the Falcon revision of the Xbox 360 is shipping. As far as the 360 goes, Falcon means a 65nm version of the Xenon system processor.
In what is getting to be a bit of a habit in recent months, AMD has released another hotfix for Catalyst drivers.
During this year's CEDEC 2007 the technical manager, Takami Taki, and the programmer, Yasuhide Sawada, of Capcom's Production Studio 2 held a talk on the production of Lost Planet and MT Framework, Capcom's multiplatform developing environment.
IBM revealed Monday the winners of its Cell BE University Challenge,
using the first annual 2007 Power Architecture Developer Conference as
the setting in which to announce the results. Having drawn the
participation of nearly 80,000 individuals from twenty-five countries,
ultimately four teams were declared the winners from each of…
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.
Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli has announced that the official demo for his company's latest FPS endeavour, Crysis, has been postponed.
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.
As promised, the second part of our summary of the Capcom presentation on Lost Planet at CEDEC 2007 focuses on the PC version of the game and its improvements due to the use of DirectX 10.
Designed to alleviate the contextual burden that might affect certain programmers in their approach to Cell, the idea behind SPU shading is to create pipelines within larger SPE-based systems that resemble in spirit the models more generally associated with GPUs.
AMD has announced a second "Black Edition" X2 processor, this one based on the 5000+ model.
In a Beyond3D editorial our very own Carl Bender is
offering a different view on the mainstream phenomena called 'Wii'.
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.
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.
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.