Amd had a lawsuit slapped on them by Opti Inc. recently. This is a surprise as Intel is usually the target of such infingment suits. How this will play out only time will tell. Note AMD claims to have not seen the lawsuit and would not comment. Rumour is Microunity is suing AMD aswell, this co also sued Intel however they settled out of court. It much have been cheaper in the long run then a lengthy court battle. Read->
The 4x4 and 65nm k8L surfaces, but as expected it will be costly at first. 4x4 is more for the server and big buisness market right now. Dont get too depresed. A lot of its features will surely find its way to desktop eventually. L3 maybe promising along with the greater sse pipe size. Well just read these and you'll see what I mean. Read->
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Ageia Lowers PhysX PricingAgeia Technologies, the world’s only designer of physics processing units (PPUs), has quietly slashed pricing of physics accelerators based on its PhysX PPU and also said Wednesday that during holiday season it would bundle $100 worth game along with every physics accelerator board. From now on, when Asustek Computer’s and BFG Technologies’ physics accelerator boards are purchased from certain retailers - such as Mwave, Newegg and Zipzoomfly - they will include a special bundle that will contain three games: City of Villains, Bet on Soldier: Blood of Sahara and Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, which combined value is $100, according to Ageia. In addition, the bundle will also include a demo of CellFactor: Combat Training, a prequel to the highly anticipated CellFactor: Revolution game to be released later this year.
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Nvidia, AMD accused of conspiracy to keep graphics pricing highThe allegation is that Nvidia, ATI and AMD conspired to manipulate graphics card pricing, while the filing seen by the INQ said the DoJ has demanded a heap of data going back to the late 1990s.......... The allegations cite sources saying that the price points of graphics cards are practically always the same - at around $500 for the top end stuff. The allegation is the defendants and co-conspirators "have engaged in a contract combination, trust or conspiracy, the effect of which was to raise the prices at which they sold graphics processing units and cards to artificially inflated levels." |
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Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 review: Quad Core is here! Since the release of Intel’s Conroe micro-architecture, the company has been making waves, massive waves. In terms of performance, Intel washed away main competitor AMD, and they have continued to do so during the past three months with the success of their Core 2 Duo and Extreme processor series. .............. The downside in the other hand, and a quite expected one, is that quad-core processors will start selling at well over $800 each, with today's review item, the Core 2 Extreme QX6700 going for a cool $1000 per processor.
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ATI cancels future Intel platform chipsets Unsurprisingly, ATI, now owned by AMD, has taken its 65 nm Intel motherboard chipsets off of its roadmap. This move contradicts ATI's promise to its shareholders that development of Intel chipsets would continue despite its acquisition by AMD. Its tune has changed, and now it claims production and support of current Intel chipsets will continue, but new chipsets for next generation Intel products are being dropped. |
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NVIDIA 8000 GPU/VPUToday we will be releasing not one but four different reviews of products based on the NVIDIA® G80 GPU/VPU. Each review will showcase the efforts of a different major video card manufacturer and will be written by a different Bjorn3D Product Analyst. It is our hope that the diversity of this approach will give you, our readers, the most complete overview humanly possible at one site................. The GeForce 8800 GTX GPU implements a massively parallel, unified shader design, consisting of 128 individual stream processors running at 1.35 GHz, and the GeForce 8800 GTS includes 96 stream processors clocked at 1.2GHz. Each stream processor is capable of being dynamically allocated to vertex, pixel, geometry, or physics operations for the utmost efficiency in GPU resource allocation, and maximum flexibility in load balancing shader programs.
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ATI promotes DX10 GPU ATI Technologies Thursday disclosed some of the details concerning the code-named R600 graphics processing unit (GPU) and said the part will not only support the new features and unified shader architecture, but will also become the company’s highest performing graphics chip when it comes to wide-spread DirectX 9 applications. R600 – DirectX 9 Champ “The R600 will be [absolutely] the fastest DirectX 9 chip that we had ever built,” said Richard Huddy, the head of ATI Technologies’ software developers relations department, at a press conference in London, UK. |