Note: this is continued from my last article (The Joy of Speculation: Will ATI and AMD get Married? Part 1, The History of GPU’s and PC Games.) and to me, it wasn't really enough for a new article, but not relative to the old article.
I have long waited for the day when GPU’s will be made by the CPU giants. The power and engineering behind the GPU manufactures, while impressive, has nothing compared to the CPU behemoths (Intel and AMD, and to some extent, IBM).
Source: biz.gamedaily.com
ATI have said the graphics seen for the Wii at E3 were only the tip of the iceberg and that they would look better than Gamecube graphics. This matches with what Nintedo have said about the hardware that was present had not been finalised.
Source: arstechnica.com
Is AMD eyeing ATI for an acquisition? That's the latest rumor on Wall Street. Industry analyst Apjit Walia of RBC Capital Markets is predicting a merger or acquisition in the not-too-distant future, saying that ATI is ripe for the picking.
Source: arstechnica.com
X-bit is reporting that ATI has plans to get developers running audio code on the Radeon X1300 GPU. ATI is releasing a new audio processing software developer's kit (SDK), and they demoed a basic equalizer application for it at a recent London event.
Source: arstechnica.com
Matrox was the first company to bring triple-head display support to the mainstream PC with their Parhelia graphics card in 2002.
Source: forbes.com
Advanced Micro Devices may be looking to buy graphics company ATI Technologies, a move that would benefit the overall graphics industry, according to RBC Capital Markets.
Source: appleinsider.com
Source: forum.macbidouille.com
Since the release of Bootcamp by Apple, many people have reported games such as Blizzard's World of Warcraft running faster on Windows than on OSX.
Source: zdnetasia.com
Efforts to bring glitzy new graphics to Linux are fueling an old conflict: Does proprietary software belong in open-source Linux?
Source: Daily Tech
While more expensive video cards exist on the market, they are not targetted towards gamers. This new Geforce card is. So how many gamers would actually plunk down a grand for video card? That remains to be seen.
Source: hexus.net
Geek Fight!!
Source: arstechnica.com
I'm not much of a gamer, but the PS3 sounds like it's going to be a pretty cool home theatre component, with a price tag to match...($800).
Source: dailytech.com
This looks like a real can of worms for ATI.
Source: firingsquad.com
You want to know a secret? None of the current ATI or NVIDIA graphics cards will support the full capabilities of Windows Vista.
Source: Xbox 360 Fanboy
I've been playing with Microsoft's newest Vista build (5270) and the first thing I wanted to see was how the compatibility with games was with it.
Source: extremetech.com
The Radeon X1800 XT was generally faster than the GeForce 7800 GTX--until Nvidia launched a clocked-up 512MB version. With a stunning increase in pixel processing power, the X1900 cards represent ATI's dramatic response.
Source: Linuxelectrons.com
A writeup on why some hardware vendors, namely ATI and NVIDIA, only release binary, proprietary, and sometimes encrypted drivers for supported operating systems.