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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! Read the full news item

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 CUDA raytracing solution has also shipped to their partners in early March. Read the full news item

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 help explore both classic and exotic architectures in the coming months, right here on Beyond3D...

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, it also seems much more complex than that and Intel's statements are far from straightforward...

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

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 of TSMC, seems to have a very different opinion of what's going on. Read the full news item

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 their other chips they do not integrate RF. That is, if the other ones did in the first place. Read...

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 desktops. Now Fudzilla claims a 45W EE SKU is slated for early Q2 and others for early Q3. Read...

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 gives detailed numbers for OMAP3 and implicitly PowerVR's SGX, and so might help break some myths...

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 dual-core chip. It is slated to still be on time for the 2010 Notebook refresh cycle in Q1 2010. Read...

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 the XBox 360. Read the full news item

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 permanent $50 price cut to $299.99. Read the full news item

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 be presented at Hot Chips, presumably with more of a hardware perspective. Read the full news item

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 news for AMD compared to most alternative scenarios. Read the full news item

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 exception: the application processor. It looks like it's actually the exact same as in the 2G iPhone...