ATI IS ON A ROLL, having taped out its next generation GPU family called Southern Islands. ATI might call it the HD6xxx series, and it could be out before Nvidia gets its GTX4xx line of GPUs fully fleshed out and to market.
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NVIDIA’S TEGRA LINE is not doing well. Sales expectations are being guided down, and the chip is losing major contracts in shocking numbers. To make things more palatable to the financial community, Nvidia is playing a very cynical PR game for the technically unaware.
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NVIDIA SEEMS TO BE telling porkies again, this time in an area where it is quick to criticize others. Its OpenGL 4.0 driver promises once again suggest that honesty is not a core corporate value at Nvidia.
Updated: They are out, sort of.
Updated 2x: Failed by 2 weeks according to their own words.
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IT LOOKS LIKE the last vestiges of Palm are going away, reports from Bloomberg say the company is shopping itself around. When things like this happen, the end is near.
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IT LOOKS LIKE Nvidia’s legendary honesty is matched only by its counting skills, at least that is what it looks like after the GTX470 and GTX480 launch numbers leaked. If you believed the 30,000 number, well, it was off by a lot.
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GTX480 MAY HAVE ‘LAUNCHED’ but the story is far from over. The first derivative part, GF104, is coming, and there is a mysterious new code name on the far horizon.
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IT LOOKS LIKE the GPU roadmaps are being torn up and plan B’s are coming out of the woodwork left and right. The current problem? TSMC’s 28nm process, or lack thereof.
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LAST MAY, we said that GTX480, then called GT300, was going to be hot, slow, big, underperforming, hard to manufacture, and most of all late. Almost a year later, Nvidia can’t even launch PR quantities at the promised spec of 512 shaders.
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WE HAD THEM a month ago, now they are cropping up all over. If you know how sites number their pages, you can dig them out with a fair bit of ease.
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NVIDIA HAS SOME interesting numbers in its GTX480 presentations, but just like the Heaven benchmark numbers, they don’t seem to reflect reality. This latest ‘accident’ in an official presentation centers around Dirt2.
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NVIDIA IS TWISTING the arms of e-tailers over GTX480s, forcing them to clean out the warehouses of old inventory if they want the new cards. If you want any allocations of the GTX470 or GTX480, be prepared to buy lots of low end cards.
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NVIDIA HAS FINALLY taped out a Fermi GF100 derivative, but it is not what you might think. Contrary to its public bluster, Nvidia isn’t going for the high end this time.
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INTEL WON BACK most of the lead that AMD had earned in the server market with the Conroe and Penryn generation of CPUs, and erased the rest with the Nehalem generation. Today marks the release of Westmere-EP, the 6 core 32nm update to Nehalem, and the Intel lead just gets wider.
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WHAT DO YOU do if you are Intel, and your next next next generation part, Haswell, is thrown into a tizzy by the re-purposing of a major component? Easy, you smile and move on 1,394 miles to eastern Washington.
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ONE OF THE most studied benchmarks of the DX11 era is Heaven from Unigine. At GDC, it was showing off version 2.0 of the benchmark with more assets and features.
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