Symantec Educates Microsoft on x64 Windows Vista Update
	Microsoft seems to be in need of some education related to its Windows Update practices and Symantec seems more than happy to oblige it. The issue is related to the 64-bit editions of Windows Vista and the mandatory driver signing mitigation introduced by Microsoft in order to safeguard the operating system's core from unsigned code. All kernel modules on systems running the x64 editions of Windows Vista must feature digital signature ... [read more >>]
	07 September 2007, 11:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Accuses Nvidia of Cheating
	Benchmarking is one of the most widely used methods of testing out the relative performance of one or another hardware component and establishing which company makes the best products from a given price and functionality range. Or at least that's how it is supposed to be as there were a number of flawed benchmarks in the past that were optimized for certain class of hardware products while clearly reducing the performance and thus the ... [read more >>]
	05 September 2007, 10:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sapphire Will Soon Launch Another Dual-GPU Graphics Card
	Graphics cards arranged in multiple units setups are not something out of the ordinary but 'traditional' configurations like Nvidia's SLI or ATI's CrossFire technologies have a number of bad parts like the need to buy two or more graphics cards ( a very big money sucking trend), lots of power needed for stable operation and a compatible mainboard. For users not having all of the above, the traditional setup may or may n ... [read more >>]
	05 September 2007, 10:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Low Cost DirectX Cards Selling in Droves
	Graphics cards can be easily split into two large categories: discrete and integrated into the chipset cards. While until very recently discrete graphics cards were the incontestable kings of performance and efficiency and they were having a field day, now as the mobile computing systems are starting to sell better than desktops, the integrated kind takes the lead, partly because of increases in technology which bring quite enough performa ... [read more >>]
	05 September 2007, 09:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Earth Issues with ATI Graphics Cards
	As I said yesterday, in order to obtain best results from Google Earth you need to have at least a 32 MB graphics card. But somehow, even if you own a more powerful hardware device, you encounter problems with the mapping tool. So, how can we fix th ... [read more >>]
	05 September 2007, 04:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Diamond-made Professional Graphics Cards
	Diamond Multimedia is a well-known and liked hardware manufacturing company in the United States which focuses itself on high-end graphics cards targeted at gamers and related multimedia products. After years of developing both gaming and professional graphics cards, the company retired from the professional market and concentrated exclusively on the gaming and multimedia businesses. Now, it looks like the Diamond company is back on the ... [read more >>]
	03 September 2007, 05:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

GECUBE GEMINI 3 – World's First Dual GPU Radeon HD2600XT Card
	Integrating dual graphics processing units on the very same video card is not really hot news as the technology to do this and much more has already been around for a number of years. This approach of integrating two graphics processing units on the same card comes with some advantages over the more traditional multi card setups like SLI or CrossFire as it ultimately allows users to gain more performance in games or other graphics intensiv ... [read more >>]
	01 September 2007, 04:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MSI Launches a High-End AGP Graphics Card
	In a world dominated by PCI Express graphics cards and multi graphics setups like the Nvidia's SLI or AMD/ ATI's CrossFire it looks as if there is still a quite strong demand for AGP based video cards. Nvidia, the green goblin of the graphics market, announced a long time ago that it dropped the AGP standard for good considering it obsolete but ATI stated that the old graphics standard still has some juice left as the n ... [read more >>]
	31 August 2007, 11:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

HIS Launches The HD 2600XT iSilenceIII
	HIS announced the launch of an ATI based graphics card, the Radeon HD 2600XT iSilenceIII, which features a Zalman cooling solution with heatpipes and DDR3 video memory modules. Because of the completely noiseless cooling solution employed by the manufacturing company, the Radeon HD 2600XT iSilenceIII is perfect as a multimedia appliance that fully supports the HD 1080P high definition video standard. HIS Radeon HD 2600XT iSile ... [read more >>]
	28 August 2007, 05:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Affordable ATI Radeon HD 2900 Cards
	The graphics cards market is almost entirely dominated by Nvidia, the green goblin of the computer industry, at least on the high-end segment. While ATI cards were never far behind and on some occasions, they were taking the lead in the performance and image quality departments, overall, Nvidia is the most important graphics cards manufacturer and vendor with high end graphics chips that are enjoying a lot of popularity. Tradi ... [read more >>]
	24 August 2007, 05:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

GeCube's Radeon HD 2400 Pro AGP8X
	In a world centered on increased performance, at least in the computer hardware department, it looks as if old standards for hardware components die and are buried in a rather speedy manner. Or some stay around as a niche market long after the replacement standard which features massive improvements, has arrived. This is the case with the old AGP, the shorthand for accelerated graphics ports, which reached the venerable 4th revis ... [read more >>]
	17 August 2007, 05:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Asus Launches Two New Graphics Cards
	Asus announced the launch of two new high-end graphics cards, the EAH2600PRO/HTDI/256M based on an AMD chip and the EN8600GT/HTDI/256M card that is based on an Nvidia graphics processing unit. Both of these graphics cards are featuring high quality bundled HDMI adapters that are certified by HDMI Licensing. Asus included the HDMI adapte ... [read more >>]
	17 August 2007, 04:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

ATI/AMD 8.40.4 Display Driver Released
	A new version of the ATI/AMD Linux display driver was released last night for both x86 and x86_64 platforms. This release brings new features such as: TV Out Functionality and Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition. The TV out functionality was made available under Linux OS for all ATI video cards that support TV Out (composite, component vi ... [read more >>]
	14 August 2007, 02:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Defective Radeons? No way!
	Rumors surfaced on many news web sites about a batch of defective Radeon video chips that AMD's graphics division (formerly the ATI company) shipped to several hardware manufacturers. The rumors spoke about a defect in the BIOS chip of several thousands Radeon HD 2600 and HD 2400 graphics chips due to a faulty flashing procedure that left the cards unable to use their UVD units. According to the news site ... [read more >>]
	09 August 2007, 09:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The GPGPU Technology
	The entire computer manufacturing industry floats on an almost endless sea of acronyms that users learned to embrace and use when talking about various technologies and hardware parts. One of the latest acronyms to surface is the GPGPU and before too long users will meet it on an every day basis as it reflects the current technological trends in the industry. While a modern central processing unit, processor for short, or CPU for the ac ... [read more >>]
	07 August 2007, 11:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New DirectX 10 Graphics Cards From AMD
	AMD announced the release of five high-end professional ATI FireGL video cards designed for workstation use in CAD, DCC and medical imaging applications. The ATI FireGL V8650, FireGL V8600, FireGL V7600, FireGL V5600, and FireGL V3600 graphics accelerators are based on the new graphics processing unit developed by AMD's graphics division that features a new unified shader architecture powerful enough to process up to 320 individual st ... [read more >>]
	06 August 2007, 09:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

TSMC Works for AMD and Nvidia
	Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (better known as TSMC to the world) is a company that contracts the manufacturing of different computer hardware parts from their original designers that have not enough production facilities. This works great for both parties involved, as the original manufacturers can bring more products on the market and the contracting foundry is leasing its production lines for some big sums. Acc ... [read more >>]
	06 August 2007, 08:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Single Core CPUs Still Rule
	Gamers like to have the latest and the best hardware parts they can get their hands on, money permitting, of course. So the latest survey from the game producer Valve comes as a really big hit as most Steam users reported that they are still using single core processors for all their gaming needs. The survey took place among almost a mil ... [read more >>]
	06 August 2007, 04:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Faulty ATI and Nvidia Drivers Can Lead to a Complete Takeover of 64-bit Vista
	Faulty drivers from ATI and Nvidia are the right way to a complete takeover of 64-bit Windows Vista by circumventing the operating system's additional security mitigations designed to prevent unsigned code being loaded into the platform's core. This scenario was demonstrated at Black Hat 2007 in Las Vegas by security researcher Joanna Rutkowska, Founder/CEO of ... [read more >>]
	03 August 2007, 06:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What Is AMD's Graphics Division Up To?
	The Radeon HD 2900 family of graphics processors will soon expand from only one current official chip to at least one more member in a short time. The original plan that AMD's graphics division presented called for no less then four different video cards in that product line. They should have come with several memory configurations like 1GB GDDR-4, 512MB GDDR-3, 512MB GDDR-4 and 256MB GDDR-3 an in order to accommodate all th ... [read more >>]
	01 August 2007, 09:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Defective Graphics Cards on The Loose
	According to some rumors circulating through the back channels of the graphics card market, AMD may have let slipped to system integrators a number of video cards with a busted BIOS chip. This happened because the company's official graphics card diagnostic and validation software was discovered to have a bug that prevented the correct validation of ATI Radeon HD 2400 and 2600 graphics cards, says the news site ... [read more >>]
	01 August 2007, 07:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The AMD RS780 Chipset
	As the AMD revealed roadmap says, there will be a soon to come next generation chipset codenamed RS780 that is aimed by AMD to target the consumer and the commercial desktop platforms. This chipset was designed by engineers working with ATI's chipset division, but since the merging of the two companies, it is all about AMD now One interesting feature of the RS780 chipset is the fact that it integrates a complete graphics ... [read more >>]
	31 July 2007, 11:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Is Losing the Graphics Market
	AMD looks like it is having a really, really bad year both on the processor and on the graphics markets. First of all, on the processor market it lost ground and market shares to the giant Intel and as the price wars become fiercer, it lost a bunch of money too. On the graphics chips market, AMD must battle another well-known and established competitor: Nvidia. And it seems that its competitor is rolling over it because of a much ... [read more >>]
	30 July 2007, 12:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hot from AMD's Headquarters
	According to AMD's chairman and CEO, Hector Ruiz, all important computer manufacturers are now using his company's chips in their products. He considers this to be a sign that the system integrators and the customers want that the small semiconductor supplier to succeed in its battle with rival Intel. "The second quarter confirms our convictions about our industry. First, customers want us to succeed. The unit g ... [read more >>]
	23 July 2007, 04:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD's Financial Results: Some Cold, Some Hot
	AMD reported its financial results for the quarter that ended on 30th of July. While the company's revenues rose well over a billion dollars, which is 13% higher than revenues from the same period last year, its total financial balance is negative, as AMD lost $600 million. This loss includes the sum of $130 million charge that AMD took in order to buy the graphics cards and chipsets producing company ATI. An additional ... [read more >>]
	20 July 2007, 09:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New ATI Video Driver Brings Back Fedora 7 Support
	A new version of the ATI/AMD Linux display driver was just released a few minutes ago for both x86 and x86_64 platforms. I think many users have been waiting for this, as this new version brings back support for the Fedora 7 Linux distribution! ... [read more >>]
	19 July 2007, 13:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Graphics Cards Technologies Explained
	The graphics cards segment is one of the most dynamic places of the entire computer hardware manufacturing business. While there are many graphics cards producers (some very good, most simply good, and a few that don't even deserve to be called producers at all), there is only a handful of graphics chips manufacturers – Nvidia, ATI and SiS, not counting here the more exotic producers like Matrox or the "video in chipset" one ... [read more >>]
	19 July 2007, 08:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Install Video Drivers on Fedora 7
	If you want an easy method to install the drivers for your Nvidia or ATI/AMD graphics card, then this guide is for you. The guide uses the Livna Nvidia and ATI/AMD drivers because they are especially designed for Fedora 7 systems and it will come with a small python script, which works as an extension to system-config-display, doing all the editing of the Xorg configuration file for you while installing/activating the driver. The Livna reposit ... [read more >>]
	14 July 2007, 21:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Prepares a New Crossfire
	AMD's 580 and 480 chipsets are getting kind of old, being beaten by the latest Nvidia chipset with quite a wide margin. Even 580X with Crossfire support and two PCI-Ex lanes for AM2 processors, a chipset with very good overclocking potential, good stability and top performance is showing its age, so AMD decided to launch ... [read more >>]
	12 July 2007, 04:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Former ATI CEO Departs from AMD
	Dave Orton, former president and CEO at the video chip maker ATI, has resigned as executive vice president of AMD just nine months after the two companies combined. AMD completed the merging with ATI in October last year and Dave Orton was given the position of executive vice president of AMD, as part of the merging deal. Or ... [read more >>]
	11 July 2007, 03:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Launches New HDTV/DVR Solutions for Laptop and Desktop PCs
	AMD released on July 9, 2007 two new multimedia solutions that offer both high-definition television( HDTV) and digital video recording( DVR), available for laptop and desktop PCs alike. These solutions came as external or internal plug-and-play add-on cards, connectable by USB or PCIe. They feature an advanced 3D comb filter, noise reduction, automatic color control and sharp video that rivals high-end consumer television sets. ... [read more >>]
	10 July 2007, 05:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Power Color Rolls Out its Own HD 2400 / 2600 Series
	AMD has the nasty habit of fighting battles they know they can't win. And if you look at the recent history of CPUs you will notice that they lost too many fights to be taken seriously, most of them related to the price of CPUs. And as it turns out the fact that they acquired Ati didn't help. Because they're trying it again. And the 65nm GPUs might help them win the battle for the first time ever. Because AMD has started one ... [read more >>]
	29 June 2007, 09:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Rolls Out Catalyst 7.6
	Just two weeks after the original release of the Catalyst 7.5 series, AMD thought of renewing its driver series with a new one capable of delivering even more performance than the 7.5. The new Catalyst dubbed 7.6 (of course...) introduces, among other features and improvements, full support for video capture with the help of an Ati All-in-Wonder graphics card. And that's good news for all of you owners of an All-in-Wo ... [read more >>]
	27 June 2007, 02:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

ATI/AMD 8.38.6 Display Driver Released
	The ATI/AMD Linux display driver was released last night for both x86 and x86_64 platforms. This release introduces support for RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 operating systems. Issues resolved in this release: • Moving a video window between two monitors in a big desktop configuration no longer crashes the Xserver; • ... [read more >>]
	26 June 2007, 05:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

First R500 Open Source Driver Released
	Jerome Glisse, member of the R500 team, has just announced the availability of the first open-source Xorg driver for the ATI Radeon X1000 "R500" series. The driver is still a bit primitive and lacks proper initialization and setup of the video modes for the r520 and r580 series (X1800 and higher and even some X1600). However, this is its first release and the developers’ team who have worked on it expect others to get involved t ... [read more >>]
	13 June 2007, 09:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Diamond Multimedia Rolls Out the First 1GB Radeon HD 2900XT Video Card
	Even if you don't like to compete and you're happy with your place, it's a good thing to catch the No.1 spot from time to time. Especially if you're not a big player. As it turns out, this is the same logic that has driven the guys from Diamond Multimedia towards the decision of rolling out the first 1GB DDR4 Radeon HD 2900 XT video card. Evidently, the launch of such a 3D monster could not go unnoticed so Diamond Multi ... [read more >>]
	11 June 2007, 03:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

INTEL Will Produce Video Cards
	Rumors, rumors. What would we do without them? For instance how could we find out if INTEL is indeed planning to release separate video cards for SOHO use at the beginning of 2008 if it weren't for rumors? Evidently, in order to spread them you generally need mass coverage. And that's where an event such as the 2007 Computex comes into place. However this is not where the information ends since the same rumors that h ... [read more >>]
	08 June 2007, 12:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The 1GB GDDR4 Radeon HD 2900 XT Is Here
	Strange things have always happened in AMD's backyard but something seems to have really gone wrong since they acquired Ati. I mean c'mon people, you should have known better than to lie people about the availability of UVD hardware when it wasn't actually present (at least in current HD 2900 XT versions). As I've said, things started to take a nasty turn from the moment AMD bought Ati. Starting with the ... [read more >>]
	07 June 2007, 03:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Announces the First Mobile DirectX 10.1 GPUs
	Yep, you've heard it right. Not only does AMD have plans to further improve the manufacturing process of the R600 GPU but they are also planning to launch an entire new line of chips based on 55nm manufacturing process. That might take a long time since currently all R600 chips are manufactured using 80nm transistor gates. However if there's something we simply love about AMD is their ability to make some of the best ... [read more >>]
	05 June 2007, 05:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Rolls Out Ati Catalyst 7.5
	...who still enjoy a good DirectX game played on an Ati Radeon. Maybe I should have called it AMD Radeon but since I'm a fan of old names, I'll let it live for a while. Moreover it seems that AMD likes old names too since they are also calling it Ati Catalyst 7.5 and not AMD Catalyst 7.5. But let's get going, shall we? On June the 1st, AMD released the latest drivers for Windows XP and Windows Vista. Due to the ... [read more >>]
	04 June 2007, 03:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Sells INTEL CPUs
	Yes, you've read it right and there's no mistake in the statement either. AMD has completely lost the war with INTEL CPUs and it seems that they have also lost their brains on the way to complete defeat. When I saw this news I was on my way of turning off the PC and go home. And everything would have remained as plain as ever in AMD's land. But I had the idea of opening my browser. I have to admit that this is b ... [read more >>]
	01 June 2007, 11:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

ATI/AMD 8.37.6 Display Driver Released
	The ATI/AMD Linux display driver was released last night for both x86 and x86_64 platforms. This release introduces the Catalyst Control Center version 1.0. The Catalyst Control Center software provides a 3D aspect page which allows one to make adjustments in 3D applications such as graphic-design applications, games and CAD applications. ... [read more >>]
	01 June 2007, 02:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

ATI Seeks Redemption Through QuadFire and Dual-GPUs
	Maybe AMD didn't do the right thing with the ATI acquisition. The new Radeon HD X2000 family can hardly compete with the 6 months old NVIDIA 8800 cards, but now the Canadians are trying to come up with some ace up their sleeves. In a nutshell, ATI wants to give new meaning to the word 'multi'. And how are the Canadians supposed to do this? It surely has something to do with their graphics cards, right? Well, no ... [read more >>]
	29 May 2007, 11:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Screen Resolution Limit in Vista for ATI Video Cards
	Recently I have decided to switch from Windows XP to Vista. I know Vista appeared months ago but my reticence regarding hardware and software compatibilities forced me to wait a bit. Now that most of the hardware manufacturers released versions of their drivers to be compatible with Vista determined me to attempt the transition. Though, before doing that I started a little investigation in order to find out whether the components of my PC ... [read more >>]
	23 May 2007, 13:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

ATI's R700 to support DirectX 10.1
	As ATI's R650 launch gets closer and closer, more rumors and official information begin to surface. This also applies for the upcoming R700 GPU, which is supposed to revolutionize the graphics card sector. The latest developments point to the fact that the R700 multi-core chip will support the improved DirectX version 10.1 (rumored to be renamed to DirectX 11). The tessellation engine implemented in the R600 GPU and further develo ... [read more >>]
	22 May 2007, 09:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD to Deliver Open Source Drivers for Their Graphic Cards
	Henri Richard, AMD's VP of sales and marketing has recently made an incredible announcement at the Red Hat Summit. Henri Richard stated that AMD would deliver open source graphics drivers. This announcement has been anticipated by some people since last year, when AMD acquired ATI. Even though it was not mentioned when exactly this will happen, AMD' s initiative is welcomed by all Linux users or developers out there who are eager ... [read more >>]
	14 May 2007, 06:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

ATI X2600 and X2400 Ready for Release
	As I am an ATI fan, I can hardly wait to see how the X2900 XT cards really behave in today's demanding graphics environment. AMD/ATI may know better why they have delayed the arrival of DX10 cards, but I, for once, was nearly ready to join the dark forces of NVIDIA, with all the annoying market strategies and technical issues radiating from ATI. I managed to keep it altogether and realized that the X2900XT is worth the wait ... [read more >>]
	07 May 2007, 06:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

HIS Reveals First RADEON X2900XT Card
	The announced 14th of May official release date of the Radeon 2900XT restored hope to those hardcore ATI fans, but up until now nothing has been heard of an actual implementation of the R600 GPU beyond reference boards. Time to see what HIS has in store for us. While waiting to see what Sapphire is planning for their new R600 line-up, we find out that the first to spring up with information regarding their new video cards i ... [read more >>]
	03 May 2007, 09:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

NVIDIA 8800 Ultra Gets Pictured
	No, it’s not some picture of a bare naked lady frolicking around holding her breasts out saying “double the pleasure, NVIDIA SLI”. Yeah, I know, ‘what’s the connection between a nice looking woman and a piece of computer hardware?’ you might say; well, they both share the same human interest factor, man. The card is due sometime in the near future, alongside its major competitor, the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX. Even though AMD fin ... [read more >>]
	27 April 2007, 06:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX Doesn’t Rise to Expectations
	It’s time for ATI to put their money where their mouth is, because there have been just too many, rogue testing going on with their “still unreleased, under NDA” graphics cards. I realize that these are just engineering samples, whose features and performances don’t reflect the ones of the finished product, but so far, all of the products I’ve seen that were engineering samples behaved a lot better than the final product. In ... [read more >>]
	26 April 2007, 09:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia