Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) today held a meeting of its board of directors, which approved capital appropriation of US$1.133 billion to expand 65 and 90 nanometer process capacity in 300mm wafer fabs, according to Continue reading “TSMC to expand 65nm and 90nm capacity”.…more
NVIDIA?s GeForce 8800 GTX and 8800GTS GPU’s are the industry’s first fully unified architecture-based DirectX 10 compatible GPU’s. The GeForce 8800GTX GPU consists of 128 individual stream processors clocked at 1.2GHz, which means awesome gaming performance. If you are wondering how these new GPU’s stack up against the rest read on as we compare them to more than a dozen GPU’s.
VIA Announces the CN800 Chipset for its C7-D Processor As with other VIA chipsets the CN800 uses a traditional north and south bridge configuration. The CN800 can be paired up with VIA?s VT8237R for SATA Continue reading “VIA Announces the CN800 Chipset”.…more
The much anticipated Vista RTM build is to be released according to Dailytech Long time Microsoft aficionado Paul Thurrott wrote in a WinInfo update that Windows Vista would be hitting RTM status today, a full Continue reading “Vista RTM to be Released Today”.…more
NVIDIA Corporation today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire San Jose, CA-based PortalPlayer, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLAY), a leading supplier of semiconductors, firmware, and software for personal media players (PMPs) and secondary Continue reading “NVIDIA to acquire PORTALPLAYER for ~$357 million”.…more
NVIDIA Corporation today announced the immediate availability of NVIDIA MAXtreme 9 D3D and POWERdraft 2007, new performance drivers, developed in close collaboration with Autodesk, for 3ds Max 9 software and AutoCAD 2007 software. Recent tests Continue reading “NVIDIA Announces MAXtreme 9 D3D and POWERdraft 2007”.…more
Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Friday that it’s adding a red 8-gigabyte version of its tiny iPod nano to its popular line of digital music players, offering to donate money to Continue reading “Apple adds to iPod line with second red nano”.…more
Seeing DirectX 10 as one of core technologies of Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Vista operating system (OS), GPU and chipset vendors are speeding up their developments to meet demand for new platforms, according to a Chinese-language Continue reading “Vista speeding up GPU and chipset developments”.…more
Don’t rush out and get your next gen video card and Vista to play Crysis just yet. The much-anticipated next-generation DirectX 10 game Crysis has been delayed until at least April 2007. The reason for Continue reading “Crysis Delayed”.…more
Fixes for SLI, World of Warcraft, TimeShift, EverQuest, Spellforce 2, control panel, etc. Some of the improvements… WHQL Certified. NVIDIA PureVideo HD driver with support for the following features: Hardware acceleration of H.264, VC-1 and Continue reading “NVIDIA Forceware 93.71 Drivers Released”.…more