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Stringer: PlayStation 3 is a key driver of Sony's future growth

21st Jun 2007 @ 23:11:00 - written by Farid  
Associated Press reports what Howard Stringer, chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sony, said to his shareholders at the annual meeting. During his speech, Stringer made clear that his ambition for the company has now shifted from “recovery to profitable growth."
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NVIDIA MCP78 to launch sooner than expected

21st Jun 2007 @ 14:02:00 - written by Rys  
Digitimes are reporting that NVIDIA are accelerating the launch of MCP78, their D3D10 IGP for AMD sockets, in order for it to arrive before AMD 780G. With MCP68 late to market and possibly losing business compared to AMD 690G, it seems that's the incentive for that to happen.
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European analyst Screen Digest takes on future console sales

20th Jun 2007 @ 22:10:00 - written by Stefan Salzl  

The London based market research firm Screen Digest took a closer look at the prospects and future developments of the console market. The report highlights the different challenges all three manufacturers face.

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US chip fabrication equipment sales rise in May

20th Jun 2007 @ 22:10:00 - written by Farid  
Semiconductor equipment and materials supplier organisation, SEMI, announced yesterday that orders for semiconductor equipment rose in May --about six percent greater than April and three percent better than May of last year.

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Refining Wii accelerometer data with Kalman filtering

20th Jun 2007 @ 19:09:00 - written by Farid  
For the vector mathematics fans out there working on Wii games, PC homebrew with accelerometers or even the PS3 SIXAXIS, Gamasutra has published an article on improving the input data results from small accelerometers, such as those found in the Wii controller or the PS3 one, by using a Kalman…
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Intel release hardware VP driver for G965 under XP

20th Jun 2007 @ 14:02:00 - written by Rys  
Intel have released a beta driver for their G965 IGP that enables hardware vertex processing under Windows XP. A driver that does the same for Vista is expected in the coming weeks.
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Stock exchanges seem to have eyes only for AMD

20th Jun 2007 @ 00:12:00 - written by Farid  
InformationWeek has an article on AMD performances on the stock exchange market, following a last week press release from AMD announcing that yet another stock exchange, Borsa Italiana, chose AMD solutions, Opteron processors in this case, for its computational needs.
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Intel talks Itanium's architecture refreshes and road map up-to 32nm

19th Jun 2007 @ 21:09:00 - written by Farid  
Intel’s only high-end CPU entirely based on a RISC architecture CPU, targeted toward servers, Itanium, was the centre of the talk Diane Bryant –Vice President and general manager for Intel's Server Platforms Group- had with reporters during a press conference held at San Francisco, last week, reports EE Times.
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NVIDIA's FX Composer 2 beta now available for download

17th Jun 2007 @ 22:10:00 - written by Carl Bender  
This past week NVIDIA announced the availability of FX Composer 2 (Beta 3) for public download, marking the first time a beta revision of the shader-authoring software has been made publicly available. Key feature set highlights include cross-platform support for DirectX 9 and OpenGL, as well as HLSL, COLLADA FX…
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Toshiba presented a 4GHz synthesisable SPU at symposium

16th Jun 2007 @ 18:06:00 - written by Farid  
Our singular forum member one stumbled upon an article published in the Japanese magazine, Tech-On, about a presentation made by Toshiba Corporation Semiconductor Company, at the 2007 Symposium on VLSI Circuits at Kyoto, showcasing a new implementation of a Streaming Processing Unit (SPU), the same processor found in the STI…
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Capcom CEO on Online Games and Distribution

21st Jun 2007 @ 17:05:00 - written by Stefan Salzl  
Bloomberg interviewed Tsujimoto Kenzo, CEO of Capcom, on his company's future outlook on network based and distributed games.
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Analyst iSuppli upgrades computers shipment forecast for 2007

20th Jun 2007 @ 23:11:00 - written by Farid  
Macworld published iSuppli revised forecast for PC sales in 2007. Going from 10.7 to 11.2 per cent, the forecast predicts shipments will attain 264 million units for the year. The main ignition factor for this rise would be due to a higher-than-expected demand in PC laptops. Laptops accounting for almost…
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NVIDIA ranked 3rd in fabless semiconductor industry

20th Jun 2007 @ 22:10:00 - written by Rys  
NVIDIA have been ranked 3rd by revenue in the fabless semiconductor industry by the Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA). The ranking is based on first quarter revenues in all markets this year, with only Qualcomm and Broadcom, competitors of the graphics company in some markets, ahead.
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NVIDIA Tesla: GPU computing gets its own brand

20th Jun 2007 @ 20:30:00 - written by Rys  
Being able to witness the earnest birth of a new computing industry is a special thing. In the last few years, efforts to use programmable commodity graphics hardware for things other than graphics have gained pace, and now there's a legit multi-million dollar industry surrounding it.
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Shacknews preview Valve's Team Fortress 2

20th Jun 2007 @ 15:03:00 - written by Rys  
Nearly 10 years in development according to the Shacknews preview, Team Fortress 2 will finally be out towards the tail end of this year, and it promises to be one of the gaming and graphical highlights on the PC in 2007.
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NVIDIA launch GeForce 8400 GS

20th Jun 2007 @ 14:02:00 - written by Rys  
NVIDIA G86 gets another run out today in a product named GeForce 8400 GS. The cheap entry-level GeForce 8-series marks the bottom of their current D3D10 performance ladder for around £35 inc VAT here in the UK.
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EA reorganises itself into 4 labels and two support groups

19th Jun 2007 @ 23:11:00 - written by Farid  
Electronic Arts, leader in video games publishing, announced yesterday its decision to categorise its main business into four different and independent labels, all based on the model created by the Sims’ team
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Gamebryo 2.3 revealed, supports DX10, VSM and PhysX

19th Jun 2007 @ 18:06:00 - written by Farid  
Emergent Game Technology’s middleware solution Gamebryo, which we presented in earlier articles (part 1, part 2), announced yesterday the release of the 2.3 version of its famous game engine.
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North American sales data May & Japan sales data

17th Jun 2007 @ 08:08:00 - written by Stefan Salzl  
Bringing you up-to-date on console sales worldwide, we have compiled data for two major regions, North America and Japan.
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Nintendo sued by Texas firms over patent infringement issues

16th Jun 2007 @ 15:03:00 - written by Farid  
Lonestar Inventions LP, a Texan electronic products maker, alleges in an early June complaint brought in front of the Tyler federal court (TX) that Nintendo Company, Limited is violating one of their U.S. patents –filed in '92, issued in '93- relating to a method to enhance substrate-based capacitor…
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