Beyond3D Featured ContentNVIDIA 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.
It's always nice when the MSM (Main Stream Media) has the sense to dig up specialists to help in communicating complicated subjects. For instance, our gaming editor, Farid Bouzid, recently got to chatting with Newsweek's N'Gai Croal about the techincal specifications of Nintendo's Wii.
Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli has announced that the official demo for his company's latest FPS endeavour, Crysis, has been postponed.
Following the Todd Hollenshead interview posted by golem.de where he stated John Carmack was not as interested in linux, id Software's Technical Director has posted on Slashdot that, while a linux SKU of Rage is not in the cards, there will likely be a linux binary release once the game…
NVIDIA has released version 100.14.19 of it display driver for Linux (x86 and x64) and Solaris (x86 and x64 too).
HotHardware are reporting that some Intel X38-based mainboards might augment NVIDIA nForce MCPs in order to support NVIDIA SLI on those products.
The first peak at Intel's 45nm Penryn processor technology came yesterday at IDF, as Intel took the wraps off of Harpertown, a full Penryn implementation in Xeon form.
Intel, the world's largest microprocessor manufacturer, has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire physics middleware provider, Havok Inc.
Online reports are hinting that AMD is gearing up for the launch of a new graphics product called Radeon HD 2900 PRO.
According to Japan's Nikkei newspaper
Sony is going to sell its advanced semiconductor production facilities to Toshiba come
Spring for 100 billion Yen (870 million USD, 625 million EUR).
Emergent Game Technologies, the company behind the middleware solution
Gamebryo Element, has just announced support for the Nintendo Wii. The Wii joins the PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 as
platforms supported by Emergent's game engine. No particular technical
information about the Wii version of the engine…
Are you a fan of PT Boats: Knights of the Sea, or Team Fortress 2? Does the PC you play said games on sport an NVIDIA graphics chip? If both conditions evaluate to true, you might fancy taking a look at 163.71.
According to a Bloomberg report today, Microsoft is now shifting its priorities to Europe in order
to gain a significant foothold in the global video game market.
Toshiba today revealed the name of a new stream processor design focused on the consumer electronics space and derived from the Cell Broadband Engine architecture. Dubbed "SpursEngineTM," the new chip is to be demonstrated at this years CEATEC JAPAN running Toshiba's previously shown real-time…
Novell have released the first alpha-quality display driver for R5xx and R6xx-based Radeon graphics products, for openSUSE, following the release of register specifications by AMD.
NVIDIA have released a ForceWare 163.69 display driver, WHQL-certified for Windows Vista. It makes us lament that there never was a 69.69 driver release, but we digress.
AMD are officially announcing that, following a couple of days of out-in-the-open speculation, triple-core Phenom processors are being added to their roadmap.
Freescale have licensed AMD graphics IP for use in their i.MX range of multimedia-focused application processors.
The Taiwanese based manufacturer Hon Hai
Precision is now assembling Sony's PlayStation3 alongside ASUSTeK Computer.
For the last week, AMD has been sending tremors through the Linux community. Yesterday we reported on one of their promises coming to pass when documention of the internals of the RV530 interfaces showed up on the web. Today, we can add that the new Linux driver for the HD 2xxx series is also availble.…
As promised by AMD, register specifications for their modern graphics processors are starting to become available. Today saw the availability of the 2D, VIP and bringup registers for RV630 and M56 (Mobility Radeon X1600), on x.org.