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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]
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]
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. By setting prices for two of the graphics cards under $200 (about £128), ATI said it is taking advantage of the...
[October 25, 2002, 15:22]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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, 12:58]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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. Such a move could mean a much shorter lag time between when new features are introduced into a graphics chip...
[February 7, 2002, 13:08]
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 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 Wed 30 Jan: The hotly anticipated GeForce4 graphics processor will...
[February 6, 2002, 11:22]
Nvidia Programming Tool Goes Open Source
News Nvidia introduced Cg last month as part of a new focus on programmability in graphics chips. Thanks to advances in Microsoft's ubiquitous DirectX library of graphics instructions, graphics chips are beginning to handle computing tasks on their own...
[July 24, 2002, 10:05]
Nvidia Quadro4 Draws On GeForce Power
News Nvidia is currently the market-leading graphics chips maker, challenged mainly by ATI, with its Radeon line of graphics chips. Nvidia will launch the professional counterpart to its GeForce4 graphics chip, Quadro4, on Tuesday, aiming at the market...
[February 18, 2002, 17:07]
ATI Gives Graphics Boost To Budget PCs
News Graphics-chip underdog ATI Technologies is expected to introduce new chips that will dramatically increase the graphics performance of budget PCs. But the chips have significantly less graphics horsepower than standalone processors, meaning the low...
[June 23, 2003, 13:38]
