The MIT team showed a comparator-based switched capacitor (CBSC) circuit, which could be manufactured with smaller size and better power efficiency than traditional analog circuits using operational amplifiers. The team had presented a rougher version Continue reading “MIT improves analog circuit for consumer devices”.
Six weeks from now, the world will get the first retail Radeon X2900 XTX, or at least that is what the Daily Tech staff believes. AMD’s guidance claims R600 will feature 700 million transistors. By Continue reading “AMD Releases Final ‘R600’ Specs — Welcome Radeon X2900 XTX”.
Nvidia is preparing to launch a series of GeForce 8600 cards in the middled of the second quarter 2007 to help satisfy the increasing demand for DirectX 10 supporting graphics cards caused by Windows Vista, Continue reading “Nvidia GeForce 8600 series will launch in the middle of 2Q”.
Although the consumer version of Vista saw tepid sales during its first week on store shelves, the new Microsoft operating system did seem to help PC sales. Sales of boxed copies of Windows Vista at Continue reading “Windows Vista Sales Are Slower Than When Windows XP Launched”.
NVIDIA today released a public beta of the NVIDIA CUDA Software Developer Kit (SDK) and C-compiler for computing on NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs). GPU Computing with the CUDA SDK is a new approach to Continue reading “NVIDIA CUDA Unleashes Power of GPU Computing”.
abit is launching the Fatal1ty F-I90HD motherboard today, but don’t expect this one to win awards for overclocking or gaming performance. The abit F-I90HD is based on the ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 chipset, which features Continue reading “abit Launches the Fatal1ty F-I90HD Motherboard”.
TUL Corporation, a leading provider of graphic cards, today announced the PowerColor Chinese New Year Special Edition graphics card. This card features a limited edition golden pig fan to celebrate the year of the pig; Continue reading “PowerColor Special Edition Year of the Pig Graphics Card”.
In a keynote address at the LinuxWorld OpenSolutions Summit in New York today, Randy Allen, corporate vice president, Server and Workstation Division, AMD (NYSE: AMD), revealed findings from a study that comprehensively calculated, for the Continue reading “Annual U.S. Data Center Energy Consumption: 45 Billion kWh”.
Dell on Thursday announced that Michael Cannon, the current president and CEO of electronics maker Solectron, will head a newly formed group that will oversee much of the company’s operations, including manufacturing, procurement and suppliers. Continue reading “Dell hires Solectron CEO, Michael Cannon”.
Anyone who has seen Apple’s television ads knows “PC” is a stodgy business guy. But he sure spends a lot of time chasing down alien terrorists in video games. Given the “cool factor” of the Continue reading “Apple still quiet on game strategy – Wonder Why?”.
In papers presented at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) today, IBM revealed an on-chip memory technology that features what the company claims are the fastest access times ever recorded in eDRAM (embedded dynamic Continue reading “IBM reveals embedded DRAM breakthrough”.
Google has created a searchable index of Google Earth data files, a feature that should make it easier for users to find and adopt third-party overlays for this popular mapping application. “Users can now search Continue reading “Google Earth gets overlay search”.
Scientists have captured an image of the AIDS virus in a biological handshake with the immune cells it attacks, and said on Wednesday they hope this can help lead to a better vaccine against the Continue reading “AIDS virus weakness detected”.
Ryan Brant, the former chief executive of video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to criminal charges related to backdating of stock options. Brant, who in 1993 founded the company best known Continue reading “Take-Two founder pleads guilty to options charges”.
NVIDIA released a new driver today that adds support for the 320MB GeForce 8800 GTS. This is an incremental driver release since v100.59 with a few additional fixes. Be sure to head on over to Continue reading “NVIDIA ForceWare 100.64 Drivers Released For GeForce 8800 Series”.
