Gets by with a little help from its friends
By Wily Ferret: Monday, 21 July 2008
CONTRARY TO WHAT you may have read around the wibble last week, the folks at AMD are very happy indeed to have Nvidia's Physx standard running on ATI hardware. Mostly. Whilst the green team has made plenty of hay out of the fact that Nvidia Geforce GPUs can now process physics routines in games like Unreal Tournament 3 (and benchmarks like 3D Mark Vantage), amateur coders have had fun in the past few weeks trying to get the same routines running on AMD hardware - with the full support of Nvidia. The chaps at NGOHQ.com report that they got both software tools and developer assistance time from Nvidia to help get Physx running on ATI hardware - presumably since Nvidia considers this not just a marketshare bonus for Physx, but a major kick of sand in the face to Howling Hector, Dodgy Dirk and his crew, who not only couldn't afford to buy Ageia, but can barely afford to buy a sandwich at the moment after losing $2.5bn of its $3.2bn of ATI goodwill. In a bid to get back some goodwill – albeit rather less than a few billion – ATI has now decided to help the amateur coders do their thang.
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Monday, July 21, 2008
Notebook sales surge ahead of desktops
Cheap and cheerful laptops winning out
By Emma Hughes: Monday, 21 July 2008
A RANGE OF NEW low-cost ultra-portables with improved specs is lined up to hit the shelves in time for the back-to-school season. With economic uncertainty postponing IT sales and affecting many business sectors it isn’t surprising that there is a demand for ‘basic’ or low-cost ultra-portables and a slowdown in desktop sales. The notebook market is reported to have driven the market growth by 53 per cent year on year while desktops did marginally better than expected at 0.7 per cent despite global economic pressure and rising energy costs. The demand for lower-priced, portable PCs is expected to rise as the school season passes and Christmas approaches, remaining popular in both the education and business sectors.
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By Emma Hughes: Monday, 21 July 2008
A RANGE OF NEW low-cost ultra-portables with improved specs is lined up to hit the shelves in time for the back-to-school season. With economic uncertainty postponing IT sales and affecting many business sectors it isn’t surprising that there is a demand for ‘basic’ or low-cost ultra-portables and a slowdown in desktop sales. The notebook market is reported to have driven the market growth by 53 per cent year on year while desktops did marginally better than expected at 0.7 per cent despite global economic pressure and rising energy costs. The demand for lower-priced, portable PCs is expected to rise as the school season passes and Christmas approaches, remaining popular in both the education and business sectors.
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Nvidia: Larrabee is a reaction to CUDA
Nvidia responds to Pat Gelsinger’s comments about CUDA being just a ‘footnote’ in computing history
by Ben Hardwidge 21st July 2008
Intel may have put the wind up the graphics business with the development of its Larrabee graphics chip, but Nvidia reckons that Larrabee is just a reaction to what Nvidia has already achieved with its GPGPU CUDA technology. What's more, the comments from Intel's Pat Gelsinger earlier this month have also stirred up a debate about the future of multi-core programming. Nvidia's general manager of its GPU computing group, Andy Keane, told Custom PC that the high level of interest in CUDA 's causing Larrabee. Larrabee's the reaction.' He then added that 'these comments from Gelsinger; if we were not making a lot of headway do you think he'd even give us a moment's notice? No. It's because he sees a lot of this activity. The strategy is to try to position it [CUDA] as something scary and unique, and it's really not; it's something that's very accessible.'
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by Ben Hardwidge 21st July 2008
Intel may have put the wind up the graphics business with the development of its Larrabee graphics chip, but Nvidia reckons that Larrabee is just a reaction to what Nvidia has already achieved with its GPGPU CUDA technology. What's more, the comments from Intel's Pat Gelsinger earlier this month have also stirred up a debate about the future of multi-core programming. Nvidia's general manager of its GPU computing group, Andy Keane, told Custom PC that the high level of interest in CUDA 's causing Larrabee. Larrabee's the reaction.' He then added that 'these comments from Gelsinger; if we were not making a lot of headway do you think he'd even give us a moment's notice? No. It's because he sees a lot of this activity. The strategy is to try to position it [CUDA] as something scary and unique, and it's really not; it's something that's very accessible.'
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