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NVIDIA Fermi GPU and Architecture Analysis

The timing could barely be better! ATI launch a new line of graphics processors and what do we do?  We finally get round to looking at Fermi.  Alex was at the controls again for this one, beating GF100 in GeForce GTX 470 form up with a new suite of software and a very deep, in-depth analysis of how the majority of the chip and architecture work.  It's the de-facto public analysis and a must read.

Intel purchases young game development house Offset

21st Feb 2008 @ 06:00:00 - written by Farid  
In a surprising turn of events, Sir Sam McGrath - founder of Project Offset - announced yesterday on the official company website that he and his team were now part of the Intel Kingdom.
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VR-Zone: NVIDIA MCP77 with 15xUSB/22xPCIe?

16th Feb 2008 @ 16:30:00 - written by Arun  
As if NVIDIA's chipset roadmaps weren't confusing enough already, VR-Zone now claims that the firm's competitor to AMD's RS780M for notebooks sports 22xPCIe lanes and 15xUSB ports. And that it's coming in March. Errr, what?
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S3 launches DirectX 10.1 Chrome 400 GPUs

15th Feb 2008 @ 11:30:00 - written by Arun  
Despite losing more than half of their GPU/IGP market share in the last year according to Jon Peddie Research, VIA/S3 is hoping to change that situation with a new family of 65nm/DirectX 10.1/PCI Express 2.0 GPUs. The Chrome 400 Series will become available in late February 2008.
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AMD launches handheld D160/M210/A250 & 3D/VG GPU IP

13th Feb 2008 @ 01:00:00 - written by Arun  
AMD just announced several new handheld chips aimed at a variety of different markets, from music-oriented Portable Media Players to Mobile TV and passing by mainstream mobile phones. The company also made their 3D & OpenVG cores official, although little information on these were available at press time.
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Article: A first look at NVIDIA's APX 2500

12th Feb 2008 @ 11:00:00 - written by Arun  
NVIDIA has just announced the 65nm APX 2500, an application processor supporting 720p H.264 video, OpenGL ES 2.0, and HDMI output. On the processing side, it sports an ARM11 core at 750MHz. We had a quick chat with Mike Rayfield and touched on a variety of subjects and interesting design…
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CSR adds GPS to Bluetooth/FM Single-Chip

9th Feb 2008 @ 12:20:00 - written by Arun  
As the rest of the industry boasts about their superior integration skills, CSR's executives insist they'll beat that trend and keep 'connectivity' wireless discrete. Their announcement of a single-chip Bluetooth/FM/GPS solution is good evidence they might have what it takes to pull this off.
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Terra Soft releases Yellow Dog v6.0

6th Feb 2008 @ 17:05:00 - written by Carl Bender  

Terra Soft has finalized version 6.0 of its Yellow Dog Linux distribution for Power platforms (Apple G4/G5; PS3), built upon the Red Hat Enterprise-derived CentOS.

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JPR Q4'07 Market Watch

3rd Feb 2008 @ 12:15:00 - written by Arun  
Jon Peddie Research released their Q4 market share report a few days ago, and many facts inside are certainly highlight-worthy. For example, after many quarters of discrete GPU strength, IGPs are now staging a comeback and the proportion of notebooks has increased substantially.
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3DMark, the Game

29th Jan 2008 @ 15:03:00 - written by Richard Connery  
Futuremark, through its YouGamers publication, have announced that they have setup a games studio to develop, no prizes for guessing it, games.
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Microsoft reports strong second quarter results

25th Jan 2008 @ 15:03:00 - written by Carl Bender  
Microsoft released second quarter earnings yesterday, beating analyst expectations to come in at earnings of $0.50 per share on record revenues of $16.37 billion. Operating profits, also at a record for the quarter, came in at $6.48 billion.
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Toshiba to cease HD DVD operations

19th Feb 2008 @ 19:07:00 - written by Carl Bender  
Following a string of devastating news for the HD DVD format, Toshiba announced today that they will officially cease all HD DVD-related development.
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Wal-Mart to go Blu-ray exclusive

15th Feb 2008 @ 21:09:00 - written by Carl Bender  
Retail giant Wal-Mart today made the bombshell announcement that beginning in June, it will no longer stock HD DVD hardware or software, backing Blu-ray exclusively as its pick for the next-generation successor to DVD.
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Cat 8.2 succeeds version 8.1 to everyone's bewilderment

15th Feb 2008 @ 00:12:00 - written by Farid  
Never letting the beat drop, the red --and somehow at the same time green-- team of mad MCs at AMD released yesterday the second version (the .2) of their 2008 series (the 8) of catalyst drivers for Radeon-family graphics cards.
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STMicroelectronics: 720p MPEG-4 & AMD Mini-Xenos

12th Feb 2008 @ 23:30:00 - written by Arun  
Also at the Mobile World Congress, STMicroelectronics announced a new chip capable of 720p MPEG-4 SP video that sports AMD's next-generation OpenGL ES 2.0 GPU (the Z460), sometimes referred to as 'mini-Xenos' due to its Xbox360 heritage.
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Fabtech blog posts: Foundries' Squeeze + Memory

9th Feb 2008 @ 12:20:00 - written by Arun  
Mark Osborne at Fabtech.org posted two interesting blog posts in the last couple of days, one on the apparent capacity expansion squeeze from foundries in an attempt to improve wafer prices and margins, and another on the current (awful) state of the memory markets. They're both definitely worth a read…
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IBM presents 45nm Cell B.E. at ISSCC

7th Feb 2008 @ 22:10:00 - written by Carl Bender  
IBM introduced the 45nm version of the Cell B.E. processor at ISSCC earlier this week, fabbed on IBM's 45nm SOI line at East Fishkill and targeted primarily towards future revisions of the Playstation 3 gaming console and Cell blade servers.
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NVIDIA to acquire Ageia Technologies

5th Feb 2008 @ 07:07:00 - written by Rys  
NVIDIA are set to acquire Ageia Technologies, creator of PhysX, bringing acceleration of the technology to their GPU product line.
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Sony reports third quarter earnings, gaming turns profit

1st Feb 2008 @ 22:10:00 - written by Carl Bender  
Sony yesterday released earnings for the fiscal third quarter ended December 31st, announcing net income of ~$1.76 billion (200 billion yen) on revenues of ~$25 billion (2.86 trillion yen); an increase of twenty-five percent in net compared to the year-ago period.
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Analysis: VIA strikes back with Isaiah: OoOE, Fast SSE3, 3.5 to 25W

25th Jan 2008 @ 18:00:00 - written by Arun  
It might have felt as if VIA’s CPU designers were sleeping for the last 3 years and asked the package and PCB engineers to keep the company going for the next thousand years. But today, they prove nothing could be further away from the truth.
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Nintendo Quarterly Results and Sales Data

25th Jan 2008 @ 00:00:00 - written by Stefan Salzl  
Earlier today Nintendo published its financial results for the third quarter in FY 2007.  Due to exceptionally high demand for its current products, the Kyoto-based manufacturer raised its net income projections for the current year for the third time.
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