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NVIDIA has announced its Q2 revenue figures and, as expected, the company has posted a revenue loss compared to the same period last year. Revenues for the most recent three month period were $892.7 million, while those of the same period $935.3 million, a decrease of 5-percent. The loss, the company’s first in five years, is being blamed on two factors: the general increasing competition in the video card industry and the “one time” charge to cover expected warranty repairs.
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NVIDIA Q2 finances show loss; tough desktop market & repairs blamed
By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Aug 13th 2008 No CommentsAMD shows off Cinema 2.0
By Emily Price on Wednesday, Aug 13th 2008 No CommentsAMD showed off AMD Cinema 2.0 yesterday in New York. The technology will allow for much more realistic environments and characters in video games in the future.
NVIDIA offering PhysX and CUDA support for GeForce cards
By Emily Price on Wednesday, Aug 13th 2008 No CommentsNVIDIA is offering PhysX and CUDA support to GeForce 8, 9 and 200-series graphics cards via a Power Pack download for free.
Alienware add ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 to gaming desktops
By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Aug 12th 2008 No CommentsContinuing the tradition of slapping every new superlative video card into their high-end gaming rigs, Alienware has announced it will be offering the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 as an option in certain desktop models. In fact both gamers and graphic designers/CAD workers should appreciate the power on offer: the HD 4870 X2 summons up 2.4 teraflops of graphics power, 1,600 stream processing units and 2GB of dedicated GDDR5 memory.
New Video PCs from iBUYPOWER Launch
By Brenda Stokes on Wednesday, Aug 6th 2008 No CommentsIf you’re an amateur videographer who loves to post their videos online, then the new Video PC line by iBUYPOWER is right up your alley. With three new PC options, you will be more than ready to shoot some video and upload it to your favorite site with ease.
Alienware Area-51 m15x gets NVIDIA Quadro FX 3600M graphics
By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Jul 29th 2008 No CommentsAlienware continue their quest to be the first manufacturer with any new high-end graphics card or processor with the news that the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3600M GPU with 512MB RAM will make its 15.4-inch notebook debut on their Area-51 m15x. Intended for heavy-duty graphics processing, the GPU has support for Open GL 2.1, Shader Model 4.0 and DirectX 10 with the ability to dynamically allocate geometry, shading and pixel processing.
ASUS Trinity triple-GPU video card benchmarked
By Chris Davies on Thursday, Jul 24th 2008 No CommentsWhen they’re not pumping out minute variations in Eee designs, ASUS have been taking the time to throw together some interesting prototypes. Today’s example, the ASUS Trinity, is a proof-of-concept video card that comprises three GPUs; basically, it’s three notebook versions of the ATI Radeon HD 3850 fitted into a specially crafted CrossFireX ‘board.
NVIDIA & ATI class action court hears damning price-fix email
By Chris Davies on Friday, Jul 18th 2008 2 Comments
Things are not looking good for NVIDIA and ATI, as they face a class-action suit in California over accusations of price fixing and colluding to keep GPU prices artificially buoyant. In the most damning piece of evidence so far heard by the court, presiding Judge William Alsup read out a 2002 email from NVIDIA’s senior VP of marketing, Dan Vivoli, to ATI’s president and COO Dave Orton, in which, it is suggested, he discusses conspiring to synchronize product releases.
Intel Centrino 2 gets official launch: WiFi N, switchable graphics, WiMAX on the way
By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Jul 15th 2008 No CommentsIntel have officially announced their ‘Montevina’ Centrino 2 platform, including five new processors, new chipsets and wireless products. They’ve also stoked up a high-performance version, the Centrino 2 Extreme Edition, which promises to be the world’s highest performing dual-core mobile processor. Support for WiFi draft-n and, later in the year, WiMAX are also promised, as is longer battery life.
NVIDIA GPU over-heat problem affecting all chips, notebook & desktop
By Chris Davies on Thursday, Jul 10th 2008 No CommentsThings are not looking too hot for NVIDIA. Or, more accurately, they’re looking far too hot; the hardware fault that the company claimed was affecting “certain versions” of their previous-gen notebook graphics chips (and which wiped $200m from their Q2 revenues) is now strongly rumored to be affecting all G84 and G86 parts in both mobile and desktop configurations.
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