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”.
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”.
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”.
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”.
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”.
Super Talent Technology today announced a line of USB drives that are designed and tested specifically to support the ReadyBoost feature of Microsoft Windows Vista. Windows Vista introduces a new concept in adding memory to Continue reading “Super Talent Launches USB Drives to Support Windows Vista ReadyBoost”.
AMD today announced the ATI Radeon X1900 G5 Mac Edition, a next-generation graphics card that combines workstation-class creative productivity and cutting-edge 3D game performance. The ATI Radeon X1900 G5 Mac Edition represents a high-performance PCI Continue reading “ATI Radeon X1900 G5 Mac Powers Apple Mac G5 Quad PC Systems”.
The Sony PS3 baby commercial was pretty freaky, but this new one of the Rubik’s Cube is pretty darn cool for older crowd that grew up with them. The Rubix Cube is a mechanical puzzle Continue reading “New Sony PS3 Commercial Featuring a Rubik’s Cube”.
Crammed in the corner of a hotel’s banquet hall, they stood and stared silently, mesmerized by what they were seeing. They were watching a soldier gunning down a giant monster on one TV and Miami Continue reading “Gamers give Sony PlayStation 3 rave reviews”.
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”.
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”.
Apparently Sony hasn’t learned from Microsofts XBOX 360 release. Good news for you planners who have already gotten in line to get one and plan on unloading it for a profit. If you haven’t managed Continue reading “EA predicts Sony will miss PS3 year-end shipment numbers”.
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”.
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”.
