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November 1, 2021 | 14:00

Inscryption Review

Welcome challenger. Why not sit down, and play a little game?

October 27, 2021 | 12:05

SilentiumPC Regnum RG6V TG Case Review

Budget in price, mainstream in aspiration.

October 21, 2021 | 09:43

AMD Talks GPU Gaming Physics

We discuss gaming physics with AMD's Manju Hegde, former co-founder of Ageia and Nvidia CUDA VP.

February 17, 2011 | 07:48

Amazon adds Nvidia GPGPU to EC2

Amazon has added Nvidia's Tesla GPUs to its EC2 cloud computing service, allowing on-demand CUDA.

November 15, 2010 | 12:28

ARM launches first Midgard GPU

ARM has announced its first Midgard GPU, the Mali-T604, offering a five-fold performance boost.

November 11, 2010 | 11:31

Nvidia trumpets world's fastest computer

Nvidia has announced that its Fermi GPUs form the heart of the world's fastest computer.

October 28, 2010 | 16:19

Microsoft patents GPU video encoding

Microsoft has had a patent on GPU-accelerated video encoding, filed in 2004, granted in the US.

October 13, 2010 | 11:38

IE9 beta launched

Microsoft has released the first public beta of the next generation Internet Explorer.

September 16, 2010 | 09:29

Firefox 4 Beta 4 includes Direct2D

The latest beta of Firefox 4 includes support for Direct2D hardware acceleration on Windows.

August 23, 2010 | 10:15

What is the best graphics card for folding?

We find out which is the fastest and most efficient graphics card for Folding@home.

August 5, 2010 | 11:16

GPUs 'only' 14 times faster than CPUs

Intel has released a report that shows an old GPU beating a CPU in performance tests.

June 25, 2010 | 10:32

VLC 1.1.0 adds GPU acceleration

The latest release of the VLC Player brings hardware decoding of H.264 video to some platforms.

June 23, 2010 | 10:33

Nvidia Tesla scores IBM GPGPU server win

Kitted out with the latest Nvidia Tesla cards, IBM is getting behind Nvidia's GPGPU hardware.

May 20, 2010 | 14:37

PathScale plans CUDA killer

Compiler specialist PathScale is planning an open-source alternative to CUDA and OpenCL.

April 28, 2010 | 10:16

IE9 preview brings GPGPU acceleration

Microsoft has released a platform preview of Internet Explorer 9, which brings a multi-core JavaScript engine and GPGPU graphics rendering to boost performance.

March 17, 2010 | 10:42

Thoughts from AMD's GPU Technology Conference

January 29, 2010 | 11:08

ASTRA builds 13-GPU supercomputer

The guys at the University of Antwerp have done it again, besting their eight-GPU desktop supercomputer with a 13-GPU beast offering 12 teraflops of computing power.

December 15, 2009 | 10:04

CPC/bit-tech folding team completes GPU countdown

Join our folding team today to contribute to scientific research and help us climb the leaderboards.

November 30, 2009 | 11:51

Firefox 3.7 gets Direct2D support

An alpha build of Firefox 3.7 - the next-next gen browser from the Mozilla Foundation - includes support for Direct2D on Windows 7 and Vista, offloading rendering on to the GPU.

November 27, 2009 | 14:30

Nvidia denies x86 chip plans

Nvidia's CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has denied rumours that his company is looking to challenge Intel's CPU dominance with the launch of its own range of x86 chips.

November 9, 2009 | 10:16

ATI Stream SDK now supports GPU-accelerated OpenCL

AMD has announced the release of the ATI Stream SDK Beta 4, which finally introduces support for GPGPU computing.

October 14, 2009 | 10:02

Nvidia working on CUDA-based anti-virus

Nvidia has announced that it is working on producing a CUDA-based anti-virus system which will offload the task of checking for malware on to its range of graphics processors.

October 7, 2009 | 09:56

Mix ATI & Nvidia? Lose PhysX

Nvidia has confirmed that its drivers deliberately disable on-GPU PhysX physics acceleration if you attempt to use one of its cards alongside an ATI GPU for graphics rendering.

September 28, 2009 | 11:07