Theo Valich

Nvidia says it's please that people want to run PhysX on ATI cards, and even invited developers to do so.

Intel's next generation Centrino 2 notebook platform is still not ready, but at least we have received word that OCZ has put the finishing touches on enthusiast DDR3 SO-DIMMs for the new platform.

Let's be realistic, the glory days of Matrox and blockbuster graphics cards such as the legendary Parhelia and Millennium are over,

San Francisco (CA) - At the moment, AMD GPG (former ATI Technologies) could be considered as the only division in AMD that is firing on all cylinders.

San Francisco (CA) - It appears that the buzz about 3D graphics has been focused on a feature that is not even integrate din today's games - ray-tracing.

Haifa (Israel) - This one did not take long: We already knew that Nvidia is working on a CUDA version for x86 CPUs, but said it would leave a modification for ATI GPUs to others.

Toronto (Canada) - AMD is preparing an answer to Nvidia's recently released GeForce 9800GTX+ card.

Mountain House (CA) - If everything goes according to plan, we will see AMD's new Radeon GPU launch this week.

Hemel-Hempstead (UK) -By now we are used to 16:10 LCDs and strange resolutions such as 1280x800, 1680x1050 and 1920x1080.

During past several days, we have heard rumors that Intel may be launching its Larrabee accelerator card during Siggraph.

AMD's Radeon 4850 briefly made a sales spot on Amazon and other sites, but was eventually taken down. Specs however, were revealed.

Wichita (KS) - FlightBlogger Jon Ostrower

Round Rock (TX) - Retail and direct OEM sales of Windows XP will be drying up by the end of this month, so it should not be too surprising that vendors are pushing out their XP inventory this month.

Santa Clara (CA) - Last week, we learned that AMD has put the finishing touches on its external graphics platform, short XGP, and aims to be rolling out products based on the specifcation soon.

Santa Clara (CA) - During Nvidia Editor's Day, we learned that Nvidia and the

Mountain View (CA) - Up until yesterday, Intel was showcasing its ray-tracing research using Quake 3 and Quake 4, which were nice demos, but did not exactly reflect fresh software.

Vienna (Austria) - A small Austrian company is making great progress into the world of air-cooled workstations: Noctua has come up with a quiet wind tunnel cooling system for 2-socket Xeon systems.

The Apple accessories business is a very lucrative, but companies have a tough time to meet the design expectations of Mac users.

Taipei (Taiwan) - One of main qualities of Taiwanese companies is the fact that they can rapidly adapt to new trends and quickly change their focus when a new technology is gaining traction.