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by Mike Zazaian October 25, 2006 - 11:52am, No Comments

After several months of regulation-jumping and board-voting-formalities, AMD has officially gotten the green light to acquire graphics-leader ATI.

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by Mike Zazaian October 5, 2006 - 11:36am, 1 Comment >>

Rumors that processor behemoth Intel is looking to acquire graphics company Nvidia made their way through Wall Street today, with Nvidia shares jumping 8 percent in a matter of hours.

Notions of the acquisition have been flying around since July, when Intel’s key competitor AMD purchased ATI, Nvidia’s primary competition. It’s unclear as to exactly how the speculation started, but whatever the cause it seems to have been enough to stir up Nvidia’s stock to the tune of 8 percent, up $2.32 to $30.62 US. Bill Lefkowitz, an options strategist at New-York-based vFinance Investments commented, There is speculation that Intel will make an acquisition announcement tonight.

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by Mike Zazaian September 29, 2006 - 5:33pm, No Comments

While the raw power of GPUs have only been harnessed for graphics applications to this point, ATI’s announcement of stream computing today will allow users to harness much-needed GPU muscle for non-graphics applications.

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by Mike Zazaian September 22, 2006 - 2:43pm, No Comments

ATI’s latest push for general purpose GPUs will allow software developers to harness GPU power for non-graphics applications.

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by Mike Zazaian September 11, 2006 - 12:31pm, 2 Comments >>

An Australian graphics research firm will use beer to perfect fluid movement algorithms for computer graphics in the gaming and movie industries.

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by Mike Zazaian September 7, 2006 - 4:59pm, No Comments

There hasn’t been any doubt about the legitimacy of the AMD and ATI merger, but today the two microprocessor giants have officially received the okay to be best friends forever.

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by Mike Zazaian September 2, 2006 - 9:54pm, 2 Comments >>

The bourgeoning Multimedia PC trend has consumers watching DVDs on computers nearly as much as commercial DVD players these days. Until recent years, it was simply a fact that DVD players outperformed PCs in this area, and that playing DVDs on a PC was simply a makeshift solution for consumers on a budget or on the go. (more…)