
It'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.
The U.S.-based National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
(NATAS) has given their prestigious 58th annual Technology &
Engineering Emmy awards for 2006 at Las Vegas, on the first night of
CES. Included was a group Emmy awarded to Microsoft, AMD, and NVIDIA.
The citation is for
"Pioneering…
DailyTech are reporting
that ASUS have developed a product that lets you use desktop PCI
Express graphics hardware on any system that sports an ExpressCard
slot. With ExpressCard a conduit for PCI Express, the XG Station
(eXternal Graphics one presumes) takes a PCI Express 16x slot and makes
it…
NVIDIA has just released the (non-G80) 97.46 driver set, for both Vista x86 and x64
(RTM/Build 6000 and above only). It's not exactly a fascinating
release, but it's WHQL and does bring a couple of nice fixes related to
video processing, (dual-)monitor configuration and the control…
For the chicken-entrail stirring graphics geek, a new update of the PCI
Express Integrators List is always appreciated. It's often the case
that unannounced products get unmasked here as imminent before other
places. We've noticed that the November 30th update is out, and as is often the case,…
The Consumer Electronics Show has kicked off in Las Vegas, and the
Press Releases will be coming thick and fast. We will putting as many
of them as seem relevant in the PR forum, and pointing at those on the
front page which we find particularly interesting.
Sony announced yesterday the creation of 'x.v.Color,' a branding methodology with associated logo whose purpose is to provide consumers with a simplified means of identifying xvYCC-compliant displays in…
AMD had its analyst day just a few hours ago, with replay webcasts now available on their website. It's also full of rather shocking strategic details, and bullish in terms of financial data.…
After a raft of similar stories this past August, Intel's shadowy Larrabee Development Group (LDG)