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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?
This week, the world of computing officially entered the petaflop era with the announcement that the Los Alamos National Laboratory's 'Roadrunner' had become the first supercomputer in history to cross the psychologically significant threshold of a thousand-trillion calculations per second...
There has been an incredible number of rumours on the upcoming 3G iPhone, but little proper analysis of the likely component choices, their technical specifications, and their consequences on the end-product. We hope to fill in that gap with this article, and deliver some useful information to...
The Tech Report just published a quick recap of AMD's Puma platform for low-end/mid-range notebooks yesterday; so if you haven't kept up with with all that or don't even know how many power planes Griffin has (gosh), just go ahead and read the piece.
Starting in August, part of the shroud of mystery around Larrabee is going to dissipate: A paper called 'Larrabee: A Many-Core x86 Architecture for Visual Computing' will be presented at SIGGRAPH by its authors, which include Doug Carmean, Tom Forsyth, Michael Abrash, Pat Hanrahan and many others.
In today's edition of yesterday's news, we look at NVIDIA's two latest purchases, P45, GDDR5, Intel's CPU pricing, NV's CSX, and AMD's stand on the 450mm transition.
Ouch, only two stories in nearly 3 weeks! Good thing the industry has been rather slow so we didn't miss anything too interesting. And GT200/RV770 rumours from people who obviously have no idea what they're talking about don't count, sorry. Either way, let's quickly catch up (link-only)...
The good folks at the Tech Report have taken their usual thorough look at NVIDIA's latest core logic for AMD processors, and it looks like a winner.
It turns out TSMC's 40nm general-purpose process will be even more impressive than previously expected: we knew it was going to sport 2.35x the gate density of 65nm, but now it turns out it'll deliver 60% higher performance too for a theoretical 3.76x perf/mm² boost. The big question now? Power.
For many months, researchers and marketing fanatics at Intel have been heralding the upcoming 'raytracing revolution', claiming rasterisation has run out of steam. So it is refreshing to hear someone actually working on Larrabee flatly denying that raytracing will be the chip's main focus.
Fudzilla is claiming that NVIDIA's G96 (aka GeForce 9500), which is a direct shrink of the GeForce 8600, will only be released in June (instead of May, we presume) because of excess inventory of GeForce 8400s and 8600s. NVIDIA would be in possession of 2 and 1.5 million G86/G84 chips…
A couple of companies producing software solutions that target the GPU and CPU for general purpose programming acceleration have announced partnerships with AMD.
Microsoft have released the latest update to the DirectX SDK, for all you Windows games programmers.
AMD launched the ATI XGP today, an external graphics solution for notebooks. It was formely known under the codename of 'Lasso', and features a HD3870 512MiB connectable via a special eight-lane PCI Express 2.0 interface to select AMD Puma notebooks. There's more at The Tech Report, so read on...
A couple of months ago, NVIDIA acquired both Ageia and mental images, companies specialized in physics and offline rendering respectively. Now two new aspects of how they plan to benefit from these moves have come to light...
NVIDIA executives talked at the JPMorgan Technology Conference on Tuesday, and several interesting tidbits came up, from their ambitious market share expectations in Intel chipsets to the technical reason for G92 yield problems and the revelation that G92/G92b will last another '6-8 to 12 months'.
IBM today made formal the announcement of an HPC-targeted variant of the Cell B.E. processor, given the name PowerXCell 8i. Featuring re-engineered SPEs with enhanced dual-precision performance and improved memory addressability, the processor is capable of ~102 DP GFlops and support for up to...
Yesterday, Imagination Technologies announced that Samsung had acquired a license to manufacture "certain POWERVR SGX graphics and VXD video IP cores". Apple instantly came to everyone's mind, and AppleInsider is partially confirming it. But they don't realize just how massive the implications are.
AMD has finally released the Phenom X3 outside of the OEM market, with reviews already available at all major hardware websites, including The Tech Report. But is it good?
It's official: the iPhone's future CPU will have a TDP of 25W! Or so mindlessly speculate Forbes and a variety of other websites following Apple's stunning acquisition of P.A. Semi, a manufacturer of power-efficient PowerPC-based CPUs. [UPDATED 4X]
French website PC INpact broke the news of an upcoming GPU-accelerated supercomputer, ordered by France's CEA for delivery in early 2009 from Bull. The cluster's performance confirms that GT200 will be rated at 1TFlop and that Nehalem/Bloomfield will clock up to at least 3GHz.