ATI readies 80nm desktop GPUs for October?
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ATI will unveil Radeon X1950 Pro and X1650 XT graphics chips and add-in cards on 17 October, according to reports from Taiwanese moles and leaked documents intended for the company's customers.â¦
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Quiet - someone might notice... AMD has quietly added a pair of top-of-the-line Athlon 64 X2 processors to its public price list. Missing from the list when AMD introduced its 65nm processors on 5 December, the 5400+ and 5600+ have now been added to the line-up. Shhhh, don't mention it - someone might want to buy one...â¦
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&quot;Nvidia&#39;s nForce chipset will extend its reach beyond the currently supported platforms of AMD&#39;s Athlon 64 FX, Athlon 64, and Sempron processors.
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Slotting into existing product line AMD looks set to introduce its first 65nm processors in December this year, a quartet of dual-core Athlon 64 X2 CPUs, if a report citing sources who've seen the chip maker's latest roadmap are to be believed.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Nvidia is promoting the idea that the GPUs it makes can also operate, when needed, as additional CPUs to vastly increase computing power. "[The GPU] is just sitting there, and a lot of people got this great idea, 'Gee, let's do some computing with this,'" said John Nickolls, director of architecture for Nvidia, in a presentation Wednesday at the Microprocessor Forum 2007 in San Jose, California. When it's not performing graphics-related tasks, the GPU can be used in parallel with the CPU, Nickolls said, delivering up to 200 billion FLOPS (floating-point operations per second), a measure of computer performance. Nvidia released a beta version of software called CUDA (for compute unified device architecture) in February. A general release is expected in the second half of this year. CUDA allows software developers to write programs that instruct the GPU to perform some computing functions normally done only by the CPU. Using the GPU as a CPU is not new, said Nickolls, but CUDA should make it easier for software developers to do. CUDA only works on Nvidia's GeForce 8800 and 8600 and the Quadro FX 4600 and 5600 GPUs introduced in November 2006. The GeForce GPU, for example, can act as a coprocessor to the CPU, has its own 16KB memory, and runs more than 128,000 instruction threads in parallel, he said. Groups of threads can also work together to accomplish one task. "People buy GPUs to do graphics, but it's just sitting there in your PC most of the time," said Nickolls. "It's a wonderful high-performance massively parallel computer, so we're trying to open that up a bit." Applications that could run on a GPU used as a CPU include those used in the fields of science, medicine, finance, or other work that depends on high processing power. Nvidia's approach differs from the one touted by AMD Tuesday at Microprocessor Forum. AMD, whichÂ acquired the graphics chip company ATI Technologies in 2006, is in the early stages of development ofÂ a combined CPU/GPU called Fusion, which is due some time in 2009. Fusion is offered more as a cost play, Nickolls said, in order to reduce cost by combining the GPU and CPU rather than to boost performance. The two-day Microprocessor Forum was hosted by the research firm In-Stat.ADVERTISEMENTIBM Information On Demand 2006Industrial Industry Leaders, please join us at IBM's premier information management global event, IBM Information On Demand 2006, October 15-20, Anaheim, CA. More IBM business and technical solutions content in one place than ever before! Select from  over 800 sessions. Register today!
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Next-gen chipset coming next month, report claims ATI's RD600 chipset for Intel processors will launch next month, it has been claimed. Whether motherboard makers will back the product now that ATI is on the verge of being subsumed into Intel competitor AMD remains to be seen.â¦
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SiS will next month join ATI, Nvidia and VIA in becoming a supplier of PCI Express chipsets for AMD processors. November will see the company commence volume production of its SiS761 North Bridge, which will
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Plus: IBM targets well above expectations...AMD has wider loss due to charge on ATI purchase...Sony Ericsson exceeds expectations...Intel remains optimistic.
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Graphics chip-maker ATI Technologies   Inc ATYT.OQ said on Wednesday that fourth quarter revenue is   expected to be about $520 million, below the low end of the   revenue outlook it provided in late June.
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Both GPUs built on TSMC's 110nm process, reportedly
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ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX:ATY, NASDAQ:ATYT), a world leader in the design and manufacture of innovative 3D graphics and digital media silicon solutions, today announced that PCI Express (PCIe)-enabled graphics
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Mountain of Light May will see the arrival of AMD's 'RV630' graphics chip, it has been claimed, and the company has prepared three reference card designs for the part - two of which will support PCI Express 2.0, though only the PCIe 1.1 board may make it to market for launch.â¦
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Updated OS, new consumer products expected to be introduced next month.
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Eyeing Sun's Niagara flow Intel has confirmed plans to "tick" and "tock" AMD into submission.â¦
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AMD has announced that its 65nm fabrication transition is now underway. AMD's goal is to fully convert its Dresden, Germany, fabrication facility to 100% 65nm by the middle of next year, with the first 65nm Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processors due in the first quarter.
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Remedy for recent shortages, it's suggested AMD will ship its 65nm dual-core Athlon 64 X2 processors a week on Tuesday, it has been claimed. If correct, the 5 December debut apparently marks an acceleration of AMD's anticipated 65nm roll-out schedule.â¦
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A little over 6 months have passed since ATI first announced their new high end Radeon X800 series. Despite apparent availability issues, ATI are forging ahead and announcing their refresh variants for the series.