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Intel to improve video, vertex shading in its IGCs
March 8, 2007 – 11:16 AM
Intel is trying to convince entry-level gamers to accept integrated graphics with a new hardware vertex shader for its G965 graphics chip. At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, the company showed off some demos of popular first person shooters on the chip and also challenged journalists to pick out the integrated graphics-powered computer against a computer running a discrete card.
Eidos' Traxxpad turns the PSP into a keyboard, drums
March 5, 2007 – 8:58 PM
Eidos Interactive wants PSP owners to harness their musical powers with its new Traxxpad software. Traxxpad turns Sony's popular handheld game device into a music keyboard, drum machine and sequencer. Users can create, mix and sample tracks on the go and even helps out amateur musicians by tweaking tones to the nearest note.
Did Intel rig its integrated graphics chip demo against AMD?
March 12, 2007 – 7:16 PM
Intel's demonstration of its G965 integrated graphics chip at the Game Developers Conference in San Jose was impressive, but was it a true comparison against AMD's discrete graphics cards? Now AMD is claiming that the test of video playback against the company's ATI discrete X1600 graphics card could have been misconfigured. AMD representatives told TG Daily that their graphics card should have performed much better and offered several explanations.