Windows 7, Snow Leopard could require giving your computer a graphics boost
If you want to make the most of the new Windows and Mac OS X platforms that are due soon, you may need to a invest in a new graphics card - or even a new workstation.
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If you want to make the most of the new Windows and Mac OS X platforms that are due soon, you may need to a invest in a new graphics card - or even a new workstation.
AMD has used the IBC trade show in Amsterdam to launch two graphics cards for 3D and VFX professionals -- a flagship board at the top of the company's range, and an entry-level card.
ATI lost ground in every major graphics product category during the third quarter, and its acquisition by AMD is likely to blame, according to Jon Peddie Research.
ATI Technology's X1900 XT card is a build-to-order option for Apple's Mac Pro tower systems, but up until now, users of Power Mac G5s haven't been able to get their hands on this faster hardware. Now ATI has revealed plans to offer an X1900 G5 Mac Edition card for those older Macs.
Advanced Micro Devices plans to make chips integrating its x86 with a graphics processor on a single piece of silicon by early 2009. The announcement came as AMD completed its $5.4 billion merger with graphics chip manufacturer ATI Technologies on Wednesday.
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) may be moving fast to complete a planned acquisition of ATI Technologies -- offering $1.7 million in salary and bonuses to hire the graphics card vendor's chief executive officer, David Orton -- but it's the rumoured purchase of NVidia by rivial Intel that is generating an Internet buzz.
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) said Wednesday it has gained approval from key US, Canadian and German antitrust regulators for its $5.4 billion plan to buy Canadian chipset developer ATI Technologies Inc.
ATI Technologies introduced several graphics cards, including three that it says offer top performance at a low cost and two more that make up a new family of high-end cards.
AMD plans to buy graphics chip vendor ATI for $5.4 billion, The Wall Street Journal newspaper reported on Sunday. The deal could be announced later today, it said.
AMD has agreed to buy Canadian graphics chip vendor ATI for about $5.4 billion in cash and stock, the companies have announced.
Intel retained its lead in PC graphics chips during the first three months of the year, although the company faced increased competition from two key rivals, according to research figures released Friday.
Innovations in 3D graphics cards usually appear first in the gaming market. However, the first board to boast 1GB of RAM is the FireGL 7350, which is aimed squarely at 3D artists.
Canadian graphics chip giant ATI returned to profitability in its fiscal first quarter after losses in the two previous quarters due in part to its ability to cash in on demand for graphics chips in handsets and a global shortage of computer chipsets. But the company's revenue and net income showed a steep decline from the same quarter a year ago.
The founder and chairman of ATI Technologies, one of the world's leading graphics chip makers, has retired from the company just weeks after allegations of insider stock trading against himself and his wife were dismissed.
ATI has introduced the FireGL V5000 workstation graphics accelerator for PCI Express systems, which offers dual-DVI connectors and 128MB of GDDR3 memory for $699 (around £400).
ATI has introduced its Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition, a new $499 (around £275) graphics card specifically for Power Mac G5 systems.
ATI and Avid have announced a 3D hardware and software package comprised of Softimage|XSI and the FireGL T2-128 AGP 8X workstation graphics card.
ATI has announced "HyperMemory", a new memory technology for its PCI Express-based graphics systems that bridges a connection between the graphics processor and system memory.
ATI announced on Wednesday its support of legacy Macs with the introduction of the Radeon 9200 Mac Edition video card, which was shown as a prototype at Macworld Conference & Expo San Francisco in January.
ATI has announced a new workstation-class graphics car, the FireGL X3-256, to be launched at Siggraph 2004 in Los Angeles next week.