Nvidia may see GPU market share impacted in first half 2011

Mar 8, 01:35

Nvidia may see its GPU market share impacted in the first half of 2011 as the company lost GPU orders for Apple's MacBook Pro notebook to AMD, according to sources from notebook pl...

Nvidia, TSMC ship one-billionth GeForce GPU

Jan 13, 17:02

Nvidia and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) on January 13 celebrated the shipment of the one-billionth GeForce graphics processor designed by Nvidia and manufactured...

AMD set to launch Radeon HD 6970/6950 in the third week of December

Dec 9, 02:20

As Nvidia has launched its latest GeForce GTX 570 GPU as well as reduced the price of its 400 series GPUs, AMD is set to launch its new Radeon HD 6970 and 6950 GPUs in the third week...

Samsung adopts ARM chips for new tablet PC

Nov 19, 16:11

Samsung Electronics is preparing its next generation tablet PC, Orion, using an ARM Cortex-A9-based processor and ARM Mali-400-based GPU.

AMD not expected to suffer much from delay of Radeon HD 6990, say sources

Nov 16, 01:35

Although the launch of AMD's new dual-core Radeon HD 6990 GPU (Antilles) was delayed until the first quarter of 2011, sources from graphics card makers believe the issue is unlikely...

AMD announces Radeon HD 6800 series GPUs

Oct 22, 15:07

AMD has introduced the AMD Radeon HD 6800 series, designed specifically for gamers by delivering unprecedented game performance starting at US$179. The new AMD Radeon HD 6800 series...

APU and GPU can be symbiotic, says AMD exec

Oct 20, 01:45

While AMD will launch its Fusion APU (accelerated processing unit), Llano, in the first half of 2011, APUs will not bring competitive impact on GPUs, and instead APUs and GPUs will...

AMD to debut Radeon HD 6000-series in October

Oct 1, 15:17

Facing the upcoming Nvidia's Fermi-series GPUs and its entry-level GeForce GT 430, aiming for an October launch, AMD has decided to announce its latest generation Radeon HD 6000-series...

AMD to delay the launch of Radeon HD 6000 series, while Nvidia drops GPU price

Sep 28, 01:45

AMD has recently postponed the launch schedule of its next-generation Radeon HD 6000 series GPUs (Southern Islands) from the original October 12 to November, according to sources...

Nvidia to adopt 20nm process from TSMC for upcoming GPUs

Sep 23, 15:03

Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang at the company-hosted GTC 2010 event, said that it will announce its new GPU designs, Kepler at the end of 2011 and Maxwell in 2013 using 28nm and 22nm process...

Nvidia and AMD ready to launch new GPUs in October

Sep 6, 16:11

Nvidia is prepared to launch its latest GeForce 400-series GPU, the GeForce GT 430 codenamed GF108, around the middle of October and the GPU will feature a performance in between...

Nvidia said to be planning chipset that combines GPU and southbridge

Sep 1, 17:09

Nvidia has recently been developing a chipset that combines the functions of a southbridge and a GPU, with the goal of the product to reduce cost for PC makers as well as create more...

Graphics card vendors to start selling new generation GPUs from AMD in November

Aug 12, 14:38

Graphics card vendors are expected to start selling AMD's next-generation GPU (Southern Islands) in November with AMD to officially announce the series in October, according to sources...

AMD announces FireStream GPU

Jun 24, 15:05

AMD has announced the launch of the AMD FireStream 9350 and 9370 GPU compute accelerators, targeting the commercial, scientific and academic research markets. With up to 2.64 teraflops...

AMD chipsets in tight supply

May 18, 14:30

Supply for AMD chipsets is running tight as the company has agreed to allow foundry partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to allocate part of the 55nm capacity...

Market watchers upbeat on TSMC, UMC 2Q10

Apr 26, 14:21

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) are expected to guide for mid to high single-digit revenue growth sequentially in the...

GPU shortage unlikely to be solved before May

Feb 26, 14:22

The current shortage of graphics chips, which is being caused largely by low yields of the 40nm process at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), is unlikely to be completely...

Second-tier makers unlikely to start mass shipping Nvidia Fermi cards until April

Feb 25, 14:06

Second-tier graphics card makers are unlikely to start mass shipments of their Nvidia GeForce GTX 480/470-based (Fermi) graphics cards until April despite that Nvidia plans to announce...

Digital Signage Expo 2010: VIA to demo dual-GPU S3 graphics card

Feb 22, 15:09

VIA Technologies has announced plans to demonstrate a dual GPU add-in-board, the S3 Graphics Chrome 5400E x2, aimed at multi-display digital signage applications at Digital Signage...

DTF 2010: AMD introduces new graphics module for embedded systems

Jan 22, 16:12

AMD has introduced the ATI Radeon E4690 Mobile PCI Express module (MXM) for the graphics-intensive embedded systems at the Digitimes Tech Forum (DTF) 2010 in Taiwan.

Nvidia Fermi to arrive in March 2010; AMD to launch new GPU in January-February

Dec 28, 15:29

Nvidia has selected the launch date for its next-generation DirectX 11-supporting GPU (Fermi) to be March, 2010, while AMD will launch more GPUs in January-February, according to...

FTC sues Intel, claims company using anticompetitive tactics in CPU and GPU market

Dec 17, 11:53

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sued Intel, the world's leading computer chip maker, charging that the company has illegally used its dominant market position for a decade...

Jentech Precision to roll out heat spreaders for CPUs and graphics cards

Nov 13, 17:39

Taiwan-based Jentech Precision Industrial, a supplier of thermal heat spreaders for game consoles, will also venture into the production of heat spreaders for CPUs and graphics cards...

Nvidia Fermi push-back to 2010 not expected to impact sales, say sources

Nov 9, 13:57

Nvidia's decision to push back the launch of its next-generation flagship GT300 (Fermi) GPU to the first quarter of fiscal 2011 (January 26-April 26, 2010) is unlikely to affect the...

AMD GPU shortage causing PC vendors to delay products to 1Q10

Nov 5, 16:06

Tight supply of AMD GPUs has caused several PC vendors to delay their mass shipment schedules by about two months to the first quarter of 2010, according to sources at the companie...

Intel CEO promotes Larrabee privately during China visit

Nov 3, 16:54

Intel CEO Paul Otellini talked privately with several China-based graphics card makers to promote its Larrabee GPU, which is set to launch in 2010, during a recent visit, according...

TSMC 40nm yield issues resurface, CEO promises fix by year-end

Oct 30, 12:24

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has revealed it recently run into issues with its 40nm process technology impacting yields. Company chairman and CEO Morris Chang...

GPU shortage expected to last through 1Q10, says paper

Newswatch - Oct 5, 17:11

A shortage of 55nm-made GPUs is expected to last through the first quarter of 2010, as both AMD and Nvidia are focusing their attention toward DirectX 11-based 40nm-made GPUs, according...

Fierce GPU competition between AMD and Nvidia expected in 4Q09

Sep 29, 16:42

Nvidia is expected to unveil new GPUs, the GeForce GT210, GT220 and GT240 in the fourth quarter of 2009, before the arrival of its GT300 series in December, while AMD is expected...

Makers considering increasing graphics card prices, says paper

Newswatch - Sep 28, 12:27

Graphics card makers are considering increasing graphics card prices due to shortage of GPUs from AMD and Nvidia, and increasing memory prices, according to a Chinese-language Apple...