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Forum: 3D Architectures & Chips 07-Dec-2011, 21:16
Replies: 13
Views: 5,433
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It's Dead Jim - a debate about the future of the graphics API

Will our old friend the graphics API die? Will it morph into something more tightly fitting around the metal hidden under the respectable coolers of modern GPUs? We sail forth seeking to find out!
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Forum: GPGPU Technology & Programming 28-Feb-2011, 20:02
Replies: 16
Views: 8,992
Posted By B3D News
CUDA 4.0 Announced

NVIDIA has announced today their latest release of CUDA. We examine the upcoming features and how it might pertain to you. Can we expect a CUDA revolution with this release? Read on to find out.
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Forum: 3D Architectures & Chips 31-Mar-2009, 00:20
Replies: 14
Views: 12,968
Posted By B3D News
A look at NVIDIA's SLI Multi-OS and new Quadros

NVIDIA introduced a number of new Quadro products today, along with SLI Multi-OS which, amazingly enough, allows for full 3D acceleration in guest OSes for virtualization. A beta version of their...
Forum: 3D Architectures & Chips 20-Mar-2009, 10:21
Replies: 6
Views: 9,754
Posted By B3D News
Article: Primer on Computational Architecture Trade-Offs

Advanced discussions of computer architecture are often still constrained to generic processors and serial computations. And yet, there is so much more. This article hopes to serve as a primer to...
Forum: 3D & Semiconductor Industry 03-Mar-2009, 15:41
Replies: 0
Views: 4,958
Posted By B3D News
Analysis: Intel-TSMC announcement more complex than reported

Everyone seems to have their own interpretation of the Intel-TSMC deal, with some viewing it primarily as an outsourcing announcement, and others focusing on the IP aspect. But from our perspective,...
Forum: 3D Hardware, Software & Output Devices 03-Mar-2009, 12:23
Replies: 13
Views: 7,731
Posted By B3D News
New NVIDIA display driver for Windows 7 beta

Users of the Windows 7 beta whose PCs sport NVIDIA GPUs will be pleased to hear that the company has released new drivers. 18x.xx series code, the new 181.71 drivers support CUDA, SLI and PhysX...
Forum: 3D & Semiconductor Industry 03-Mar-2009, 12:21
Replies: 0
Views: 4,488
Posted By B3D News
AMD completes deal with ATIC to create The Foundry Company

AMD, the Advanced Technology Investment Company, and Mubadala Development Company have put final ink on paper to create The Foundry Company

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Forum: 3D & Semiconductor Industry 23-Feb-2009, 16:16
Replies: 16
Views: 7,725
Posted By B3D News
TSMC founder Morris Chang forecasts L-shaped recession

Last week, EETimes.com reported that TSMC executives reached a concensus that this recession would be U-shaped, with a rapid rebound in the coming quarters. But Morris Chang, the founder and Chairman...
Forum: Handheld Technology 16-Feb-2009, 08:27
Replies: 70
Views: 19,110
Posted By B3D News
Qualcomm's lower-end chips with OpenGL ES 2.0 and Scorpion CPU

Qualcomm has announced new chips that integrate their proprietary Scorpion CPU (ala Cortex-A8) and ATI's OpenGL ES 2.0 GPU (which they now own). They're on TSMC's 45nm process, but unlike some of...
Forum: Processor & Chipset Technology 13-Feb-2009, 22:15
Replies: 21
Views: 10,658
Posted By B3D News
AMD Propus to be released in Q2 & Q3

Back in 2008, we talked a few times about AMD's Propus chip - basically a Deneb with no L3 cache and 5-10% lower performance in desktop applications - and how important it is to AMD's prospects in...
Forum: Handheld Technology 12-Feb-2009, 20:16
Replies: 6
Views: 6,732
Posted By B3D News
Quick Tidbit: OMAP3/PowerVR SGX Power Consumption

It's frequent to see people claim this or that power number is too high to be used in a mobile phone, or so low it'll result in amazingly long battery life. A recent document from Texas Instruments...
Forum: GPGPU Technology & Programming 12-Feb-2009, 19:51
Replies: 1
Views: 4,853
Posted By B3D News
ClearSpeed scales down dramatically, CEO resigns

UPDATE: Fairly major clarification, while the main news outlets did seem to significantly underestimate the depth of the changes happening at ClearSpeed both right now and in the last couple of...
Forum: Processor & Chipset Technology 09-Feb-2009, 14:20
Replies: 6
Views: 7,080
Posted By B3D News
Fudzilla: Intel 45nm Havendale MCM replaced by 32nm+45nm MCM

Following similar rumours from other sources, Fudo now claims that Intel is replacing the Havendale (the 45nm CPU+GPU MCM) by Clarkdale, which keeps the same IGP but replaces the CPU by a 32nm...
Forum: 3D Hardware, Software & Output Devices 21-Aug-2008, 16:02
Replies: 25
Views: 10,106
Posted By B3D News
Catalyst 8.8 Hits the Street

The folks at AMD are up to their monthly Catalyst shenanigans, with version 8.8 available today for Vista, XP, and Linux.

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Forum: CellPerformance@B3D 31-Jul-2008, 17:26
Replies: 6
Views: 5,850
Posted By B3D News
NASA Evaluates Cell for Climate Modeling

At last months International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, NASA presented the results of an internal study exploring the suitability of the Cell BE architecture towards accelerating key...
Forum: Console Forum 15-Jul-2008, 21:31
Replies: 422
Views: 31,743
Posted By B3D News
Official MS E3 press conference thread

The first of the major console manufacturers to hold their press conference at this years E3 gaming conference, Microsoft took to the stage yesterday to deliver several significant announcements for...
Forum: Console Forum 09-Jul-2008, 23:35
Replies: 284
Views: 31,421
Posted By B3D News
XBox 360 Price Cut Imminent

A number of independently leaked sales fliers from retailers such as Best Buy and Target have all but confirmed that beginning this Sunday July 13th, Microsoft's XBox 360 Pro system will receive a...
Forum: GPGPU Technology & Programming 30-Jun-2008, 10:19
Replies: 10
Views: 6,525
Posted By B3D News
Tesla 10-Series Analysis [Part 2 & 3]

In these last two parts of our Tesla coverage, we quickly interview Andy Keane as we look at the adoption & deployment aspects of GPGPU, and then we look into real-world CUDA applications and the...
Forum: GPGPU Technology & Programming 26-Jun-2008, 10:58
Replies: 68
Views: 11,882
Posted By B3D News
Article: Tesla 10-Series Analysis [Part 1]

Another year, another Tesla. So, what's new? What does performance look like when only the shader core matters? And does the FP64 implementation make any sense? We touch on this and much more in the...
Forum: 3D Architectures & Chips 14-Jun-2008, 17:07
Replies: 18
Views: 8,214
Posted By B3D News
Larrabee to also be presented at Hot Chips

Since the rest of the internet is still at the stage where they're all excited about Larrabee being presented at Siggraph (hint: you guys are ten days late), we thought we'd let you know it will also...
Forum: Processor & Chipset Technology 14-Jun-2008, 16:56
Replies: 10
Views: 7,086
Posted By B3D News
Intel's Q8200: Good news for AMD?

You'd think a new, cheaper quad-core from Intel would be bad news for AMD. However, it turns out that Intel is going so soft on pricing and performance that this might actually turn out to be good...
Forum: Handheld Technology 13-Jun-2008, 18:35
Replies: 2
Views: 3,200
Posted By B3D News
3G iPhone using same 90nm Application Processor as 2G iPhone?

We published an article analysing the likely components of the 3G iPhone, and we stand by just about everything we said now that Apple made the announcement public; however, there is one big...
Forum: GPGPU Technology & Programming 11-Jun-2008, 00:03
Replies: 1
Views: 3,861
Posted By B3D News
AMD GPGPU solutions get extra support from industry partners

A couple of companies producing software solutions that target the GPU and CPU for general purpose programming acceleration have announced partnerships with AMD.

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Forum: Handheld Technology 08-Jun-2008, 14:36
Replies: 44
Views: 6,927
Posted By B3D News
Analysis of Likely 3G iPhone Components & Consequences

There has been an incredible number of rumours on the upcoming 3G iPhone, but little proper analysis of the likely component choices, their technical specifications, and their consequences on the...
Forum: 3D & Semiconductor Industry 02-Jun-2008, 10:18
Replies: 0
Views: 2,157
Posted By B3D News
NVIDIA Gelato now free; merges with Mental Ray (+NaturalMotion)

A couple of months ago, NVIDIA acquired both Ageia and mental images, companies specialized in physics and offline rendering respectively. Now two new aspects of how they plan to benefit from these...
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