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.
According to Digitimes, AMD's RS780 and RS740 IGPs (DX10 and DX9 respectively) will be launched in January. This is in contrast to earlier reports, which indicated a February launch for RS780 - so it looks to have been pulled in. NVIDIA's MCP78 is also slated for January, but it isn't…
There remains a significant amount of confusion on the derivatives based on Intel's upcoming Nehalem microarchitecture. A week ago, PC Watch released an article in Japanese on upcoming sockets and CPUs, but it didn't collide perfect with previous rumours and many websites reporting on the news seemed, at best, horribly…
Samsung has announced the company's first GDDR5 chip, and while its capacity only reaches 512Mbit, its effective memory clock reaches an astonishing 6GHz (versus 2.4GHz for the GDDR4 on the Radeon HD3870). This news comes 2 weeks after Hynix's announcement, and one month after Qimonda's.
Intrigued by recent goings on in the ATI Radeon world regarding Linux and Open Source, we asked AMD for a pow-wow on the subject. John Bridgman from the Software Development Engineering Group stepped up to the plate to answer our questions.
On October 19th, Neoptica was acquired by Intel in relation to the Larrabee project, but the news only broke on several websites in the last 2 days. We take a quick look at what Intel bought, and why, in this analysis piece.
The Tech Report have uncovered information about why the recently launched AMD Radeon HD 3870 hasn't shown up in volume for folks to buy, at least as far as unbundled retail goes. Pricing details are also revealed.
Expreview has got their hands on die shots from NVIDIA and AMD's upcoming low-end chips, and while that isn't particularly interesting in itself, they managed to break tradition and leak the chips' dimensions at the same time.
AMD has released an update to their Catalyst software suite, bringing the oft-updated package up to version 7.11.
After nearly 6 months of delays, the RV670 has fi... Oh snap! Let's try that again, shall we? Originally scheduled for a January launch, the RV670 has arrived two months early, and is now available in stores. We look at what makes it tough in today's piece,…
Sony Computer Entertainment released firmware version 2.0 for the
Playstation 3 yesterday, introducing playlists for music and pictures,
custom themes, RSS feed, and remote wake-on LAN functionality via the
PSP.
NVIDIA launched the GeForce 8800 GTS 512MiB today, which is basically a 650MHz 8800 GT with all 128 stream processors. Memory and shader cores also only received slight boosts, going from 1800MHz and 1500MHz to 1940MHz and 1625MHz, respectively. NVIDIA's claimed pricing is $299-$349, and cards are available…
Integrated Device Technology has just announced their entry into the DisplayPort market, and we took this opportunity to chat with IDT's Chad Taggard, Vice President of Strategic Planning and Worldwide Marketing. This article is a status check on DisplayPort based on our discussion (and several other…
Digitimes is reporting that NVIDIA will launch a new generation with a flagship part in February of next year. The infamous "sources at graphics card makers" are cited for the tip. The report claims the new DX 10.1 GPU will be at 65nm; which, if true, would not be an advance against either their own…
A couple of weeks ago, TSMC and UMC announced that their capital spending in 2008 would be much more limited than this year, as less new equipment would be purchased for capacity expansion. Many had expected this to be related to expected productivity enhancements and deployment of equipment bought…
Something we missed with the Thanksgiving holiday last week is that NVIDIA has publicly released the next beta version of its CUDA GPGPU platform, which adds G92 support, performance profiling, and more language features among other improvements.
Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE: IMG), leading provider of System-on-Chip (SoC) Intellectual Property (IP), today announces results for the six months to 30 September 2007.
Shock, horror: after many months of wishful thinking, reality is starting to sink in as the industry realizes that DRAM prices, which have dropped about 80% year-to-date, are unlikely to recover in the near-term. And if you believe us, they're unlikely to recover at all.
AMD finally release the first few quad-core Phenoms a couple of days ago to a more than lukewarm reception, aggressive execution and pricing by Intel taking the wind out of the X4 sails.
Professor Vijay Pande, director of Stanford's Folding@home project, has blogged that his team is demoing a new GUI and new GPU client at SuperComputing 2007.
AMD has announced the RV670-based FireStream 9170 GPGPU processor as well as the FireStream SDK. Notable are 2GB of RAM, a 775-800 MHz core clock, 500 GFLOP/s, and Brook+ (based on Brook, obviously!) as the official high-level language.