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Apple Mac Pro release means season of change for competitors
As usual, Apple was a CES no-show, but the company has a major influence on what happens there anyway. Look ...
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Review: AMD R9 290 series drives 4K monitors well
The Graphics Core Next architecture is opening up the 4K gamer market. By C. Robert Dow There is a shift ...
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Graphics add-in boards up sequentially, way down from a year ago
The small seasonal uptick does not reverse the long decline. The market for computer graphics add-in boards (AIBs) grew 3.9% ...
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Graphics chips shipments up from last quarter, down from last year
Desktop graphics sales rose 4.5%, according to the third quarter update from Jon Peddie Research. Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the ...
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AMD looks ahead to gains in the workstation market
The workstation market represents the high end of desktop computing. AMD has a small share of this market and is ...
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Graphics add-in board market down in second quarter
AMD gained market share even though the total number of boards sold went down. Jon Peddie Research (JPR) says shipments ...
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AMD, Intel graphics chip shipments up in second quarter, Nvidia down
Graphics chips outselling PCs as transition to mobile devices increases. Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm ...
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Baked in silicon ray tracing on view at Siggraph
Caustic by Imagination was showing off its new accelerator board. But Nvidia’s latest high-end GPU might be as fast. Direct-to-final-render ...
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Nvidia buys The Portland Group
Silicon is stupid without a good compiler. You all know CUDA is coming to mini Kepler, AKA Tegra, right? How ...
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New Mac Pro keeps Apple in the workstation market
The new workstation embeds Intel Xeon CPUs and AMD FirePro GPUs inside a futuristic black cylinder. But not every Apple ...