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Nvidia, AMD announce new graphics chips
News Chip companies Nvidia and AMD both announced new graphics chips at the CeBIT trade fair in Hanover on Tuesday. AMD, meanwhile, has announced two 40nm graphics chips, the ATI Mobile Radeon HD 4860 and 4830, which the company says are capable of...
[March 3, 2009, 11:41]
S3 aims Savage graphics at portables
News Savage chips will provide faster and more realistic three-dimensional graphics for notebooks -- a market where demand for graphics is debateable. Graphics chips usually consume more power, a key issue in mobile computing.
[June 7, 1999, 10:45]
ATI goes mainstream with new graphics technology
News ATI has unveiled three new graphics chips aimed at taking its industry-leading Radeon 9700 Pro technology to a wider base of consumers. See Chips Central for the latest headlines on processors and semiconductors.
[October 25, 2002, 15:22]
Midtown Madness 2 Update
Downloads This Midtown Madness 2 Update v1.01 fixes incompatibilities with the Intel 810 family of graphics chips. Version 1.1 update launching issues with Windows XP and graphics related with the Intel 810 and Geforce families of graphics chips.
[August 18, 2007, 13:34]
ATI, Nvidia competition heats up
News ATI, the market leader for mobile graphics chips, will offer two new products based on its Radeon 9000 series of desktop chips -- the Mobility Radeon 9200 for mainstream laptops and the Mobility Radeon 9600 for performance systems.
[March 13, 2003, 14:48]
Nvidia to phase out GeForce3
News Nvidia is to phase out its GeForce3 line of graphics chips entirely as it makes room for the new GeForce4, the company said on Wednesday. Current chips have their functions fixed in hardware. Nvidia excecutives said GeForce chips are improving at a...
[February 7, 2002, 13:08]
New chip may signal ATI comeback
News ATI, once the leader in graphics chips, will launch its comeback bid this week with a new chip that experts say could put the company back in front in terms of performance. It is very clear that the (new) generation of graphics accelerators are...
[July 17, 2002, 11:32]
Sempron 3000+ to make mobile debut in Europe
News On Tuesday, AMD officially unveiled its Sempron 3000+ while ATI introduced a pair of Mobility Radeon X series graphics chips. ATI's new chips are an addition to its Mobility Radeon X line of graphics processors for notebooks.
[November 24, 2004, 12:55]
Nvidia makes play for handhelds
News Nvidia began a push on Tuesday to become as powerful in graphics chips for handheld devices as it is in the desktop market. The graphics chip heavyweight was hurt earlier this year by delays of its latest graphics system, though its revenue grew...
[September 23, 2003, 14:50]
Desktop supercomputer aims for 1.1 teraflops
News Asus has unveiled a mini-supercomputer based on Nvidia graphics chips and a 3.33GHz Xeon. The ESC 1000 (pictured) can use a combination of traditional microprocessors and graphics chips to attain speeds of over 1.1 teraflops, according to Asus.
[October 28, 2009, 14:13]
Nvidia to debut workstation chip
News Graphics chip leader Nvidia plans to announce on Tuesday a new line of high-end chips for graphic artists, mechanical designers and other professionals. The new Quadro FX chips are the next step in Nvidia's Quadro line of graphics chips for...
[January 21, 2003, 14:11]
IBM to produce Nvidia chips
News Nvidia has signed a pact with IBM Microelectronics to help it avoid putting all of its graphics chips in one basket. The chipmaker on Wednesday will announce an agreement in which IBM will serve as an additional manufacturer for the GeForce family...
[March 26, 2003, 7:39]
Intel lures customers with open source graphics
News Intel has released open source software to give Linux fully-fledged support for 3D graphics, a move that could give its graphics chips a leg up over rivals. Right now, Linux users typically rely on proprietary driver software if they want to use...
[August 10, 2006, 10:10]
Nvidia, ATI rev graphics engines
News ATI Technologies is set to leap ahead of market leader Nvidia in the PC graphics chips speed race. As expected, ATI will announce Thursday a series of new chips, including a high-end graphics processor that beats the current speed champ, ATI's...
[March 6, 2003, 7:29]
Xbox chips augment Nvidia results
News Nvidia, the leading maker of graphics chips for PCs and other devices, reported modest sales gains and a sharp jump in quarterly profits Thursday, which it attributed to its deal to supply chips for Microsoft's Xbox game machine.
[August 8, 2003, 15:05]
Full steam ahead for Nvidia Xbox chips
News Nvidia, the graphics chip maker, plans to begin manufacturing graphics and communications chips for Microsoft's Xbox video game console next month, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Nvidia makes market-leading PC graphics chips, and...
[April 2, 2001, 16:26]
Nvidia goes mobile with MediaQ purchase
News Nvidia sells chips to produce graphics on computer screens. Nvidia is the leading maker of graphics chips for PCs and has tried to capitalise on that lead as it enters other markets. It won the contract to supply graphics chips for the Xbox...
[August 5, 2003, 11:15]
Sony covers Vaio laptop users against Nvidia faults
Blog Sony is extending the warranty on certain Vaio laptops to cover repairs caused by faulty Nvidia graphics chips. Dell, HP and Apple have already announced schemes to cope with the faulty graphics chips.
[August 12, 2009, 15:14]
Nvidia anticipates graphics recovery for 2003
News The chip marks the dawn of the 0.13-micron era for graphics chips, joining PC processors, which have been using the process for a few months already. The graphics chip maker expects that corporate demand will also be up, and said it will soon...
[December 17, 2002, 12:03]
Nvidia's GeForce4: First tests
News Wed 6 Feb: Benchmarks show that some components of the new GeForce4 graphics chips run up to 115 percent faster than their predecessors, but not all systems will reap the benefits Nvidia splits PC market with new chips
[February 6, 2002, 11:22]
