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Nvidia Goes For Mobile 3D
News Nvidia, the dominant supplier of 3D graphics acceleration technology for desktop PCs, is to sell 3D acceleration hardware for mobile phones. Nvidia also claims the AR10 is the first 3D acceleration processor for mobiles that supports shaders, pixel...
[February 25, 2004, 16:25]
Imagination Updates Mobile 3D Chip
News UK-based Imagination Technologies is to support the OpenGL ES standard in its graphics-acceleration hardware for mobile phones, making it easier for developers to create 3D applications and games for mobile devices, the company said on Monday.
[February 25, 2004, 13:50]
Intel Lures Customers With Open Source Graphics
News Right now, Linux users typically rely on proprietary driver software if they want to use graphics acceleration chips and hardware to improve graphics performance — to speed up displays of 3D tanks in a battle video game, for example.
[August 10, 2006, 10:10]
DirectX 7: What’s New For Graphics
White Papers The most interesting of these new features include support for hardware acceleration of transformation and lighting, cube environment mapping, vertex blending, and particle systems. By providing the world’s best implementation for acceleration of...
[October 30, 2003, 23:00]
Hercules Strikes 3D Deal With ATI
News Hercules will exclusively carry ATI's All-in-Wonder products, which combine graphics acceleration with PC-TV and digital video recording capabilities, in European retail and distribution channels. Our agreement with Hercules is proof that ATI is...
[January 10, 2002, 14:23]
PalmSource Teams With Nvidia On Graphics
News Nvidia's GoForce line of mobile media processors support multi-megapixel image capture, graphics acceleration for gaming, and video capture and playback, as well as driving multimedia applications and high-resolution displays.
[February 12, 2004, 11:10]
Mobile Phones: The Next Game Boy?
News Ultimately, ARM hopes that phone manufacturers will choose to include Swerve with their hardware, and in some cases integrate the PowerVR core alongside the ARM core for graphics acceleration. ARM business development manager Noel Hurley said that...
[September 12, 2002, 16:07]
Linux Picking Up Its Game
News Depending on the PC's graphics card, Loki's ports of games also use Mesa 3D or the Utah GLX interface, which implements a version of OpenGL that can use hardware acceleration. Unfortunately, Mesa doesn't support hardware acceleration, meaning that...
[February 4, 2000, 7:26]
Prolink GeForce4 Graphics Card Details Leak Out
News Graphics acceleration cards are an essential accessory for gamers, and are also used for high-end graphics and video processing. More specifications of Nvidia GeForce4-based graphics cards have leaked onto the Internet, with details and images of...
[January 18, 2002, 16:54]
AMD Gives Linux A Graphics Boost
News An early incarnation of the driver should be available on Monday, and AMD will help programmers gradually expand it with features such as 2D and 3D graphics acceleration. AMD has become the second of the three major graphics chip companies to...
[September 7, 2007, 9:15]
Gradient Flow Registration: A Streaming Implementation In DX9 Graphics Hardware
White Papers The locality of the involved operations implies a data-flow, which is very well suited for an acceleration in the streaming architecture of the DX9 graphics hardware. A graphics hardware implementation of this approach to image registration is...
[October 4, 2004, 0:00]
3D Graphics World Shaken By Patent Claims
News The language evolves as new capabilities are built into graphics acceleration cards, and graphics hardware makers such as Nvidia and ATI are voting members of the ARB. OpenGL, a widely used cross-platform graphics standard, may be subject to more...
[July 11, 2002, 16:14]
Generalized Distance Transforms And Skeletons In Graphics Hardware
White Papers The paper presents a hierarchical acceleration scheme and a subdivision scheme that allows visualizing the computed skeletons with subpixel accuracy in real time. This paper presents a framework for computing generalized distance transforms and...
[October 4, 2004, 0:00]
GeForce4 More Than Twice The Speed Of GeForce3
News Graphics acceleration enthusiasts can expect the new GeForce4 chip to deliver a significant performance boost over the fastest previous core from Nvidia, the GeForce3 Ti 500, with some components showing up to 115 percent improvement according to...
[February 6, 2002, 14:49]
One Year Ago: HP Targets SGI's 3D Market
News HP's workstations are expected to be based on the PixelFlow graphics acceleration architecture developed at the University of North Carolina, following HP's acquisition of the technology last year from UK firm Division Group.
[July 7, 1998, 6:00]
HP Targets SGI's 3D Animation Market
News HP's workstations are expected to be based on the PixelFlow graphics acceleration architecture developed at the University of North Carolina, following HP's acquisition of the technology last year from UK firm Division Group.
[July 7, 1997, 14:25]
3Dfx Ditches Cards, Returns To Chips
News One of the best known 3D acceleration companies, 3Dfx, is to ditch its card-manufacturing business and return to selling 3D accelerator chips. The company that brought us the Voodoo range of graphics cards announced Tuesday that it is to close its...
[November 15, 2000, 9:40]
US Report: Apple Readies Faster G3s
News In May, Motorola unveiled its AltiVec graphics acceleration technology, slated for some G4 processors. Next in line will be a $2,599 (£1,584) 333MHz audiovisual configuration with 64 Mbytes of RAM, 8-Gb hard drive, Iomega Zip drive and graphics...
[August 3, 1998, 7:03]
Sun Touts Its New Chip As Pure MAJC, Part II
News However, all of this work, whether rendering graphics acceleration or decrypting a transaction, will be fairly transparent to the end user. If (Sun) doesn't get MAJC out there quickly, it's going to get trodden over by the next generation of...
[April 25, 2000, 8:40]
LookBack '98: Gadgets We Have Known And Loved - Part II
News D and 3D acceleration ATI 3D PRO TURBO graphics chips AGP or PCI bus 8 MB Memory MPEG-2/DVD decoding with AGP2X version TV out TV in with over 1.2 million colour graphics bi-linear filtering fog effects
[December 25, 1998, 9:49]
