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ATI's Radeon 9600 Pro to support PC and Apple platforms
August 19, 2005 – 2:25 PM
ATI today released the Radeon Pro PC and Mac Edition, which the company claims is the first graphics card that can be used in x86-based PC as well as Apple computers: It's not quite the newest generation graphics chip - but an opportunity for PC users to connect Apple's Cinema displays to their PC.
Nvidia's nForce for Intel platforms receives PCI Express certification
February 10, 2005 – 9:36 PM
C19, Nvidia's nForce chipset for Pentium4 systems, has cleared its last major hurdle. The chipset recently appeared on the PCI Express integrators list of the PCI Special Interest Group as certified product.
PDC: Microsoft unveils new programming platforms
September 13, 2005 – 6:05 PM
In the later stages of today's keynote presentations at Microsoft's Professional Developers' conference, four of the company's more celebrated developers, including C# creator Anders Hejlsberg and COM pioneer Don Box, publicly unveiled a staggering array of new programming platforms including the company's Atlas programming model.
AMD Lineup For GPU, CPU And Notebook Platforms Revealed
March 11, 2008 – 10:48 AM
AMD has recently notified its partners that the company expects its share in the discrete graphics card market to rise after its next generation RV770 GPU shows up in the end of the second quarter, growing from the current 35% to reach 50% by the end of this year, according to sources at graphics card makers.
Via to introduce dual PCI Express chipsets for Intel and AMD platforms
August 12, 2004 – 5:51 PM
Via is gearing up to launch dual Express chipsets for various Intel and AMD platforms which will allow users to take advantage of Nvidia's SLI technology for running two graphic cards in one PC.

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Are true computing platforms emerging in the mobile devices market?
October 7, 2005 – 6:17 PM
With the emergence of Windows Mobile and BlackBerry as contenders in the handheld space, and the sublimation of Palm OS, TG Daily asked four leading analysts to assess whether handheld development is moving beyond the operating system and a processor: Are we on the way platform-centric handheld world?
Dual Graphics Platforms, Part II
December 15, 2005 – 6:06 AM
There is a lot more to dual card graphics than the extra frame rates ATI and NVIDIA's respective Crossfire and SLI platforms offer. Besides their overclocking potential, we look at the storage interface performance of ATI Crossfire and the NVIDIA nForce4 SLI X16 platforms. We've also included VIA's new K8T900 dual graphics chipset in our lineup.
Rambus on Alternate Platforms
September 23, 1998 – 1:01 PM
Due to its weakness in latency, the specific performance balance of Rambus DRAM does not seem to favor current generation uniprocessor desktop PC platforms running traditional applications
Then and Now: Athlon Platforms Compared
March 3, 2003 – 12:01 PM
Up till now, there has been four generations of Athlons; the fifth, called Barton, has just begun. Equally important, however, is the platform: there's a total of 11 chipsets, from KT133 to nForce2, which have contributed much to the success of Socket A Athlon. We put these chipsets in a side-by-side comparison in order to take a look at the progress made with regard to the platform.
Cost-Defying Single-Channel Platforms: Chipsets from NVIDIA and VIA
November 7, 2003 – 12:03 PM in NVIDIA
With its dual-channel RAM interface, NVIDIA's nForce2 Ultra 400 is still the performance champion. But not everyone can afford to spring for a new processor, a motherboard and two DIMMs in one fell swoop. We tell you how to cut costs by using a cheaper single-channel platform.