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: vnunet.com
Graphics card manufacturer Nvidia has unveiled its PureVideo HD technology which delivers HD-DVD and Blu-ray movie playback on PCs.
Source: gamespot.com
Nvidia reintroduced SLI two years ago, but the company found that two GPUs in a single system just wasn't enough. Four would be better. The GeForce 7950 GX2, Nvidia's newest video card, now makes two GPUs a mere starting point.
Source: arstechnica.com
Those who have had the budget to throw over a grand at a pair of PCI-Express video cards have had the ability to run dual-SLI setups for some time now.
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: bytepress.com
nVidia is a major supplier of graphics processors, graphics cards, and media and communications devices for PCs and game consoles such as the original Xbox and the new upcoming ‘next generation’ PlayStation 3. Its headquarters are in Santa Clara, California.
Product: GeForce 7800 GT OC 256MB
Manufacture: nVidia, and BFG
USC: $280-$350
Source: Legit Reviews
The Future of HD gaming has arrived on notebooks
Notebooks can now recive Nvidia SLi Graphics
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: hexus.net
Geek Fight!!
Source: dailytech.com
This looks like a real can of worms for ATI.
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Do you play games on your cell phone? Do you want this games to be 3D?
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: cnn.com
Google in your car? Yep they are reaching in another new direction.
Source: consumerist.com
Wow. I wonder if this is true...
Source: bit-tech.net
(via MacDailyNews) Two excellent quotes in this insightful analysis: 1) "Choice can also lead to pointlessness;" 2) "A lot of people were questioning why Apple went to Intel rather than AMD for its x86 processors, and the answer is simple - Core Duo."
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.
Source: pcper.com
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