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Ex-ATI GPU designer hired by Apple

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Apr 28th 2009 No Comments

Apple have hired an ex-ATI graphics chip designer, Bob Drebin, and while the specific department he will be placed in is unknown, Drebin’s background as CTO of ATI’s product group makes it a sensible guess that he’s helming a GPU project. Drebin was responsible for leading GPU engineering at ATI since 2000, while before that he was a product developer at Silicon Graphics and ArtX; while at the latter, he worked on the “Flipper” GPU that was used in Nintendo’s GameCube.

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AMD Q109 revenue flat; $308m operating loss

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Apr 22nd 2009 No Comments

amd logo AMD have announced their Q1 2009 financial results, and while the company has managed to prevent any further slide in revenue from the disastrous previous quarter, it’s still not good news. Revenues for the three month period were $1.177 billion, flat compared to Q4 2008 but down 21-percent compared to Q1 2008. Operating loss amounted to $308m.

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Intel GN40 graphics hamstrung by XP

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Apr 22nd 2009 No Comments

intel gn40 After confirming back in March that their GN40 chipset was not intended for 1080p Blu-ray playback, Intel have now confirmed that, in choosing Windows XP, netbook manufacturers are leaving customers without some of the enhanced 3D graphics performance and hardware video decoding the graphics chipset supports. The issue arises because the more advanced features require DirectX 10 and DXVA 2.0 (DirectX Video Acceleration 2.0) APIs, which demand Vista or above.

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NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 for Mac revealed

By Brenda Stokes on Monday, Apr 20th 2009 No Comments

NVIDIA announced their Quadro FX 4800 graphics card today, filling out their line up to include a card intended specifically for the Mac Pro. While this card is very much like the version for Windows, it does sport a few differences that are worth noting.

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Acer AspireRevo: NVIDIA Ion 1080p nettop

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Apr 8th 2009 No Comments

We knew it as the Acer Hornet, but the company has now officially announced their NVIDIA Ion-based nettop, the Acer AspireRevo. A compact 7.1 x 7.1 x 1.2-inch diamond, the AspireRevo pairs Intel’s 1.6GHz Atom 230 or dual-core Atom 330 processor with the graphics company’s Blu-ray 1080p-capable Ion GPU, which they claim is a match good enough to play games like Call of Duty 4 and Spore, together with DirectX 10 content.

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Phobos Gaming system now comes with 2 BFG graphics cards

By Brenda Stokes on Tuesday, Apr 7th 2009 No Comments

BFG Tech announced today that the Phobos Performance Gaming/Home Theater System will be available with two graphics cards, rather than just one, as a part of its standard model. But that’s not all the supplier has done in terms of updates.

In fact, along with the two shiny and new BFG GeForce GT 275 OC graphics cards that come standard, you also get Intel solid state drives as a part of the upgrade options.

According to BFG, the dual graphics card set up makes for a serious improvement in performance. The Phobos Performance Edition includes a liquid cooled Intel Core i7-920 2.66GHz processor, the dual graphics cards that run in NVIDIA SLI, one touch overclocking, free installation and more. You can get it now for starting at $3,000.

ATI Radeon HD 4890 GPU announced

By Brenda Stokes on Thursday, Apr 2nd 2009 No Comments

Apparently, it’s a day of new graphics cards, as AMD has announced a brand new addition to their Dragon series with the ATI Radeon HD 4890 graphics card. But what sets this one apart is the fact that it features 1.36 TeraFLOPs of power.

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 revealed

By Brenda Stokes on Thursday, Apr 2nd 2009 1 Comment

The GeForce GTX 275 was announced today from NVIDIA and it carries quite impressive specs. Due to arrive in some stores sometime next week, the graphics card features 240 1,404MHz processor cores and a 448-bit memory interface and that’s barely scratching the surface.

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ARM Mali 1080p and 3D gaming mobile GPUs by end of 2009

By Chris Davies on Monday, Mar 23rd 2009 No Comments

Chipset manufacturer ARM have outlined their vision for mobile gaming, describing products based on their Mali GPU platform that would be capable of 1080p HD resolution, offer 2D and 3D graphics and 4x and 16x full-scene anti aliasing. ARM offers the GPU as a SoC (System-on-Chip), and is foreseeing Xbox 360-level video graphics on mobile devices by the end of 2009.

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50m ATI Hollywood Nintendo Wii GPUs have shipped

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Mar 11th 2009 No Comments

AMD have announced that they have shipped the 50 millionth GPU for the Nintendo Wii console, making it the most popular AMD graphics processor for consoles to-date. The GPU – known as the “Hollywood” – was designed especially for the Wii.

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