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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?
According to Digitimes, AMD is slated to introduce a new dual-core CPU family based on the Barcelona architecture in late Q2. These products will presumably be based on the previously rumoured Kuma core with 1MiB of L2 and 2MiB of L3.
Beyond3D is very proud to present the first part of an on-going series featuring one man's thoughts and experience on modern engine development.
The ever popular game engine from Epic, Unreal Engine 3, has added
another not-so-shabby middleware solution to its already well featured
arsenal. That new middleware is none other than Illuminate Labs’
lighting baking solutions.
Beyond3D forum user Ike Turner has spotted that NVIDIA has acquired mental images, creators of mental ray. Whoa.
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.
Equal parts Year in Review, psychiatric therapy for the deeply disturbed on the cheap, and love notes to the class cuties...yes, it's once again time for Beyond3D's "Bricks & Bouquets", 2007 edition!
AMD has released another update to the Catalyst Software Suite, bringing the all-in-one Radeon driver and utility package up to version 7.12, making this the final official Catalyst release for 2007.
The general release of the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 beta means that we're seeing the first widespread availability of Direct3D 10.1.
The lads at [H] seem to have temporarily had a new toy to play with. It was an AMD "Hybrid CrossFire" system sporting a working DX10 IGP chipset cooperating with an RV620-based discrete graphics card.
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.