SlashGear JapanAMD 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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By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Mar 11th 2009 No CommentsIntel GN40 graphics ‘not designed’ for Blu-ray; Internet 1080p okay
By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Mar 11th 2009 No Comments
Intel have confirmed that the GN40 netbook graphics chipset, while capable of playing some 1080p high-definition content, will not be up to handling Blu-ray HD footage. In an official statement regarding the chipset’s abilities, Intel differentiated between “internet HD” and Blu-ray, the former being a less spec-intensive proposition.
Full Intel statement after the cut
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860 & 4830: 40nm full HD
By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Mar 3rd 2009 No CommentsHot on the heels of NVIDIA’s GeForce announcement comes word from AMD regarding their own HD-capable mobile GPUs. The ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4830 are the world’s first graphics processors to use 40nm process technology, and are capable of beyond-1080p mobile gaming.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 200M & GTS 100M series GPUs
By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Mar 3rd 2009 No CommentsWe’re already caught sight of it – metaphorically speaking – in Clevo’s D900F 17-inch gaming laptop, but NVIDIA have officially announced the new GeForce GTX 280M, one of four fresh mobile GPUs. The GTX 280M apparently offers up to 50-percent more performance than its last-gen “enthusiast laptop GPUs”, with support for CUDA and PhysX gaming effects.
Samsung kicks off 50nm-class 7GHZ GDDR5 memory
By Daniel Lim on Friday, Feb 13th 2009 No CommentsSamsung’s 50nm-class GDDR5 processing technology, designed to support 7Ghz GPU memory chips and 448GB/s peak bandwidth, has begun mass production today. The new fabrication process is not only outclassing in clock-speed but only cutting down power consumption.
Intel 320GB SSD in Q4; new Turbo Memory & Havendale CPUs in 2010
By Chris Davies on Thursday, Jan 22nd 2009 No CommentsIntel are planning on producing 320GB solid-state drives within a year, based on the success of the company’s current SSD range. The new drive was revealed in a note sent to Intel’s customers, and is one of eight SSDs to be planned for Q4 2009. The dramatic capacity increase will be enabled via a new, smaller production technology that allows more NAND flash to be packed into the same size enclosures.
NVIDIA unveils low profile Quadro NVS 420
By Daniel Lim on Wednesday, Jan 21st 2009 No CommentsNVIDIA has today unveiled the industry’s first low-profile professional graphic card, shrinking their Quadro series GPU fitting for a small form factor computer, with the introduction of a quad-display capable Quadro NVS 420.
PNY launched Quadro FX 5800 and Quadro FX 4800
By Daniel Lim on Thursday, Dec 18th 2008 No CommentsPro with industrial-grade graphic intensive designer apps take note, PNY Technologies has released two new highly scalable and performance graphics cards based on Nvidia 2nd-gen FX series unified architecture, offering 4GB and 1.5GB of DDR3 memory with the announcement of Quadro FX 5800 and Quadro FX 4800.
S3 Chrome 500 series graphics chips announced
By Brenda Stokes on Friday, Nov 21st 2008 No CommentsS3, the graphics label for VIA, announced their Chrome 500 series graphics chips yesterday, offering up a competitor to the Radeon HD 4350 line as well as other budget cards that provide features at a much lower price.
NVIDIA announces entry-level Quadro FX 470 mainboard; FX 370 PCIe card
By Brenda Stokes on Friday, Nov 7th 2008 No CommentsNVIDIA announced two new entry-level graphics processing products that can be used with workstations. The Quadro FX 470 is a mainboard and the Quadro FX 370 is a PCIe card that can be used with smaller desktop PCs.
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