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1. Control your enthusiasm

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Column We were delighted to have reported the fantastic growth of Q3 (21.4% over Q2, 7.3% year-to-year.) That clearly indicated the recession was over for graphics chips, and since they are a predictor ...

2. Nvidia unshackles Visual Studio with Nexus GPU integration

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... tool for viewing GPU events (kernels, API calls, memory transfers) and CPU events (core allocation, threads and process events and waits) — all on a single, correlated timeline. The Nexus Graphics Inspector ...

3. Nvidia kicks off 2009 GPU conference

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... to declare that his company was the "undisputed leader" in the graphics market. "With the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series of graphics cards driven by the most powerful processor on the planet, AMD is changing ...

4. LucidLogix boosts GPU gaming with Hydra 200 parallel processor

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   LucidLogix has redefined multi-GPU gaming with the introduction of its Hydra 200 parallel processor. The second generation SoC works with any GPU, CPU or chipset to provide scalable 3D graphics performance ...

5. Dell unveils five Alienware gaming rigs

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... pro-level HD audio, video editing and 3D animation. In addition, the Aurora rigs can accommodate dual 1GB ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphics cards, 24GB DDR3 1333MHz memory (or 12GB DDR3 1600MHz memory) and up ...

6. ATI introduces Radeon HD 5800 GPU for DirectX 11 gaming

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... Radeon HD 5800 GPU series. The 5800 - which is AMD's first DirectX 11 GPU - supports Eyefinity Technology, OpenCL and DirectCompute 11. "With the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series of graphics cards driven by ...

7. We will be faster than ATI, claims Nvidia

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Nvidia thinks that its new cards are more powerful that similar efforts by ATI (AMD).Nvidia thinks that its new cards are more powerful that similar efforts by ATI (AMD). . Analysts think that ATI has ...

8. Apple tames Snow Leopard with comprehensive OS X update

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... network interfaces. Finally, Apple released a slew of updates for its older operating systems along with an iMac Graphics Firmware Update (1.0.2.) that targets the ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro and ATI Radeon ...

9. Intel blitzes market with Nehalem Lynnfield chips

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... i5 CPUs integrate a 16-lane PCI Express 2 graphics port and two channel memory controller, so input and output are handed by the single chip P55 Express chipset. There's a direct media interface connecting ...

10. AMD eroded Nvidia's graphic board share

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    The market for graphics add-in boards (AIBs) showed some signs of positivity in the second quarter, although sales still were down year on year.The market for graphics add-in boards (AIBs) showed some ...

11. AMD eats into Nvidia, Intel graphics market share

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    The results are out for graphics shipments and market share in the second quarter of 2009 and AMD appears to rule the roost.The results are out for graphics shipments and market share in the second quarter ...

12. TG Daily’s Dads and Grads Product Giveaway: Play along and win!

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... from over 150 shops across five continents. Computer Peripherals DisplayLink USB Graphics Adapter: The easiest way to add an extra display to any PC, notebook or netbook.  Now any USB ...

13. AMD shows off DirectX 11 graphics chip

    (Software/Software Features)

    Chip firm AMD said it has demonstrated what it claims to be the first Microsoft DirectX 11 graphics processor.Chip firm AMD said it has demonstrated what it claims to be the first Microsoft DirectX 11 ...

14. AMD stifling competition? Did Palit screw AMD?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Opinion – There is heated debate going on in the graphics industry discussing a rather unusual choice of add-in-board (AIB) maker Palit to modify an AMD reference design in an obvious move to cut costs. ...

15. Intel moves Larrabee into 2010

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Intel is narrowing down the launch date of its upcoming Larrabee many-core cGPU. Now we know that we won’t see Intel’s graphics card in 2009. The company confirmed that it is now on track for a H1 ...

16. Nvidia releases CUDA 2.2 with Windows 7 support

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... computing with CUDA and rendering OpenGL graphics functions are performed on different GPUs. Other new features include a visual GPU profiler, a graphical tool that enables the profiling of C applications ...

17. AMD releases graphics driver for Win 7

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Chip firm AMD said its Windows 7 graphics driver has received certification from Microsoft. Chip firm AMD said its Windows 7 graphics driver has received certification from Microsoft. The WHQL (Windows ...

18. Nvidia launches mysterious new GTX 275

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Nvidia today returned to the famous days of graphics card paper launches with the new GTX 275. Rarely have we seen so much confusion about a new graphics card, which has been positioned as a $250-class rival ...

19. AMD releases Radeon HD 4890 with 1.36 Teraflops

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 1.80x (+80% gain) Call of Duty 42560 x 1600 8xAA 16xAF 1.0 1.74x (+74% gain) ATI's Crossfire technology allows two cards to operate together for graphics processing in a single game. The scaling performance ...

20. Nvidia launches five Quadro cards, relaunches two

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Nvidia is taking advantage of Intel’s Nehalem buzz today and reminded us that the company has the “most powerful professional graphics card lineup”. There are seven new cards, if we forget that two ...

21. Chipset battleground: Nvidia accuses Intel of breach of contract

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... leading chipsets and graphics cards. In 2005 and early 2006, Nvidia was entirely focused on the AMD platform, which gave the green team an huge advantage over Intel, which at the time was caught in a trap ...

22. Qualcomm backs Zeebo, a new game console

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... is designed around Qualcomm's cell phone technology, and is based on Qualcomm's Adreno 130 processor. It contains an unnamed embedded graphics chip. The device renders operation in a maximum of 640 x 480 ...

23. Will Apple lose its power to drive market trends?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    ... other and few (outside of research groups that needed cheap super-computers) wanted to create applications that only ran on Nvidia or ATI graphics cards.   Apple saw the concept as compelling and ...

24. AMD ready to demo Havok physics on its graphics cards

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    About nine months ago, we learned that AMD was partnering with Intel acquisition Havok to enable physics acceleration on its graphics processors. Now it seems that the company is ready to show what ...

25. First PhysX-enabled games arrive on iPhone

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... allowed several independent developers who created PhysX-enabled iPhone games into their App Store. And while you can't overlook how the advanced physics comes at the expense of graphics quality, their ...

26. AMD releases Windows 7 graphics driver

    (Software/Software Features)

    AMD said its Catalyst 9.3 graphics driver is the first “unified driver” to support Microsoft’s upcoming operating system Windows 7, including compliance with the Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) ...

27. ATI’s GPGPU software adds support for dual-GPUs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    AMD’s graphics team is getting much more aggressive in increasing the visibility of the general-purpose GPU (GPGPU) capabilities of its graphics processors. The company today released version 1.4 of ...

28. AMD releases extreme low-power FirePro 2450 quad-display graphics

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Operating on less than 18 watts, the ATI FirePro 2450 quad-display graphics card might be just what the low-power, non-gaming, traditional use, multi-screen crowd is looking for -- though its sales price ...

29. AMD steps up Folding@Home rivalry with Nvidia

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    AMD’s graphics team today released a new version of its Catalyst driver package, introducing Multi GPU support for the prestigious Folding@Home distributed computing project. Markham (ON) – AMD’s graphics ...

30. Adobe: The GPU is not a universal app accelerator

    (Software/Software Features)

    So we are all excited about the fact that we can buy 1 TFlop graphics cards and run certain software much faster than before. We knew before that not many applications can take advantage of GPU acceleration ...

31. Nvidia is dead serious about low-cost PCs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... graphics solution – the “System Controller Hub”, which is a 130 nm graphics chipset based on the old i915 chipset. Nvidia promises that the 9400 provides about ten times the graphics horsepower of the ...

32. Rambus taking another shot at mainstream memory technology

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... that Rambus memory, which was pitched by Rambus and Intel to become the standard memory for the Pentium 4 processor, as well as XDR - which the company hoped would make its way into graphics cards, but ...

33. UPDATED: AMD never did hold the highest 3DMark record

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... score than AMD's 49% overclocked machine while relying on an AMD/ATI graphics card - which admittedly does speak to Core i7's greater performance per clock (PPC). But even so, I must now ask you, oh Intel ...

34. AMD prepping ATI Catalyst 9.1 with full OpenGL 3.0 support?

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Yesterday, FireUser.com reported AMD would release its ATI Catalyst 9.1 drivers the same day (on January 28, 2009). The site claims this refresh will come with full OpenGL 3.0 support on Radeon HD  ...

35. AMD Phenom II X4 at 6.5 GHz with liquid helium, 45,474 3DMarks

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... cause serious damage to your PC hardware. We burn through motherboards, processors and graphics cards at an alarming rate doing it. AMD does not recommend pouring liquid nitrogen on your head or on your ...

36. Nvidia launches Quadro NVS 420, 4x 2560x1600 video card

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... across multiple displays as well. The Quadro NVS 420, like all modern Nvidia graphics cards, supports the CUDA GPU acceleration library enabling applications by Adobe and others to greatly enhance performance ...

37. Asustek planning reorganization

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... into one business unit, and Asustek will "optimize manpower of all business units." Asustek is planning to reduce manpower in its motherboard and graphics card businesses, along with implementing ...

38. Elcomsoft releases GPU accelerated Wi-Fi password cracker, 48x faster

    (Software/Software Brief)

    ... Security Auditor 1.0 can operate with or without GPU acceleration, and it supports both Nvidia and ATI graphics cards. To put the power in perspective, a Core 2 Quad Q6600 is capable of trying 1100 ...

39. Apple's Mini DisplayPort to become a part of DisplayPort 1.2 specification

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... VEGA, DVI, HDMI and others, DP 1.2 is expected to bring the bells and whistles which cater to the latest advances in graphics technology, including things like stereoscopic 3D support for three-dimensional ...

40. Outsourcing wave to hit Hollywood actors

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... of applications the hardware vendors tell us have not been invented yet. However, for the next generation of hardware, I will make a prediction: Multi-core processors and capable graphics hardware will ...

41. CES 2009: Nvidia releases GeForce GTX 285 and GTX 295 for high-end

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 295's performance. See the entire HotHardware.com review and conclusion, which reads in part, "As our tests have clearly shown, the GeForce GTX 295 is currently the fastest desktop graphics card on the ...

42. CES 2009: HP to launch series of low cost computers

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Neo processor and Yukon platform. The PC also has ATI's Mobility Raedon HD 3410 graphics. The machines will be priced between $600 and $800 in two different colors, Moonlight white or Espresso black. They ...

43. XFX to make 4000 series video cards for AMD/ATI

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Marco Chiappetta at HotHardware is reporting that AMD and XFX have entered into an agreement whereby XFX will make 4000 series graphics cards based on AMD's Radeon engine, including the 4870 X2. This information ...

44. Apple posts OS X Leopard 10.5.6 update

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... numerous bugs and improves the overall security and reliability of the operating system. It also addresses a range of system applications and improves MobileMe syncing as well as OS X graphics capabilities. ...

45. Monster Nvidia GTX 295 caught on camera

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    The guys over at VR-Zone have caught a snap of Nvidia’s upcoming monster graphics card, the GTX 295. The GTX 295 is basically two GTX 260 cards slapped together and linked via an internal SLI bridge. ...

46. ATI Stream driver now available for download

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      ATI today released one of the most significant driver updates for its Radeon graphics cards in some time: Even if you do not regularly update your graphics driver, this is an upgrade you may want ...

47. Report alleges Nvidia may hide information about Macbook Pro GPUs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      I am scratching my head over this one. Nvidia got a $200 million scar this year, caused by faulty GPUs with cracking solder bump material. The company quickly switched to a new material and promised ...

48. Apple gets official acceleration spec for Snow Leopard

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... including graphics processing units. Besides the previously announced array of companies supporting OpenCL, Nvidia said that it has added OpenCL to its GPU computing developer toolkit. Apple’s upcoming Mac ...

49. DisplayPort and HDCP in your Mac: What you need to know

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... requires a chain of HDCP-equipped devices, including an HDCP graphics card and HDCP monitor. But since we know that Apple will not adopt Blu-ray, why would Apple need HDCP? Some believe Hollywood is ...

50. Update: ATI graphics cards (almost) streaming

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      There is big news for owners of ATI Radeon graphics cards today. AMD’s graphics unit released the final driver package for this year, which includes stream support to accelerate applications that ...