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Meet the new Radeon
News Until now, Nvidia's GeForce3 has been the only announced graphics hardware capable of delivering the stunning programmable pixel and vertex shader effects built into DirectX 8. ATI Technologies has now unveiled its competitive response to the...
[August 14, 2001, 16:53]
NVidia launches Linux drivers
News NVidia, the leading graphics chip maker, has released a new set of hardware drivers for the GNU/Linux operating system, including a number of improvements to speed and compatibility. Until last year, Linux users could look forward to hours of...
[September 6, 2001, 13:22]
Integrated Graphics Solutions for Graphics-Intensive Applications
White Papers This white paper talks about Transform and Lighting (T&L) in graphics hardware and then describes integrated graphics with Hardware-Based T&L. Hardware-based T&L has become an industry-standard feature in the modern 3D computer graphics world.
[December 6, 2003, 4:04]
MacGLide
Downloads MacGLide is a shared library that emulates 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics hardware. Thanks to OpenGL and the capabilities of todays graphics hardware MacGLide can spice up things a bit to give these old timers a second life.
[December 15, 2007, 7:00]
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]
Firefox moves closer to 3D web graphics
News A nascent technology called WebGL for bringing hardware-accelerated 3D graphics to the web is moving closer to reality. The WebGL plan emerged in March from Mozilla and the Khronos Group, which oversees the OpenGL standard to let software tap into...
[September 22, 2009, 8:33]
Exclusive: S3 expands into sexy consumer markets
News Kenneth Potashner, chairman, CEO and president of S3, is at the ECTS show in London promising exciting times away from the congested graphics hardware market. Forays into unfamiliar territory -- such as corporate networking hardware -- steered the...
[September 6, 1999, 16:50]
ARM takes 3D to phone makers
News UK-based chip designer ARM has integrated advanced 3D graphics technology into its hardware development boards, a step toward making 3D graphics widespread in mobile devices such as handheld computers and mobile phones.
[October 24, 2003, 17:30]
A Year Ago: Exclusive: S3 expands into sexy consumer markets
News Kenneth Potashner, chairman, CEO and president of S3, is at the ECTS show in London promising exciting times away from the congested graphics hardware market. Forays into unfamiliar territory -- such as corporate networking hardware -- steered the...
[September 6, 2000, 7:01]
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]
Open-source graphics card available for pre-order
News The project was inspired by the chronic difficulties experienced by open-source software suppliers in finding compatible hardware — in particular, compatible graphics hardware — according to the project's leaders.
[May 27, 2008, 16:57]
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]
Apple Mac OS X on x86: a first test
Talkback Top apple graphics hardware tends to be discontinued series of ATI graphics cards. There's those who say apple is good for graphics. Sorry, the software and the hardware are crap. Apple had a good architecture to play around with PPC and they...
[November 11, 2005, 21:24]
MediaQ chip pushes into low-end PDAs
News The new processor, named Katana after the Japanese sword, has an ARM processor core, onboard memory, and a series of built-in hardware processing engines dedicated to jobs such as rendering graphics or processing video.
[May 14, 2003, 10:49]
Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra: a first look review
Reviews The card's design brings up some serious concerns if you don't have a powerfully equipped desktop PC, but those with the hardware and the bank account to back up this estimated $500 (~£275) card will be rewarded with a truly impressive example of...
[April 14, 2004, 16:50]
Sony VAIO PCV-RX301 review
Reviews The motherboard chipset is SiS's 740, which features an integrated 2D/3D graphics accelerator complete with hardware DVD playback. Unfortunately the RX301’s ASUS A7S266 motherboard doesn’t have an AGP slot, so if you want to upgrade the graphics...
[May 31, 2002, 17:56]
128MB Radeon 8500 announced
News Spring is often when many hardware companies announce new products for the coming months, and ATI is kicking off this round of graphics announcements with a revision to its high-end card, the Radeon 8500.
[February 6, 2002, 11:57]
Hercules strikes 3D deal with ATI
News Hercules, the European graphics card maker, and 3D chip company ATI announced a tie-up on Thursday that will give ATI's products greater visibility for European consumers, while giving Hercules the ability to manufacture its own graphics cards...
[January 10, 2002, 14:23]
Games push PC boundaries
News As game developers strive to offer ever-more sophisticated graphics, they're steadily pushing up the hardware requirements needed to run their latest products. I personally find games that push the hardware and do new things to be the ones I'm...
[September 5, 2002, 14:33]
Imagination Technologies announces OpenVG 1.1 conformance for POWERVR SGX
Blog Says Tony King-Smith, VP marketing, Imagination Technologies: “As a leading member of the Khronos organisation, we were delighted to be the first company to achieve OpenVG compliance for our hardware graphics technology, and to lead the field...
[February 16, 2009, 15:03]
