NvNews.com have the latest scoop on the Nvidia NV30. Here's what their saying.

According too Jen-Hsun Huang CEO of Nvidia stated today that the company will launch a fundamentally new architecture in August.

The Inquirer have posted a good article featuring Nvidia's Quadro4 XGL 750 vs. ATI's FireGL8800 professional graphic cards. Here's byte from their writings if you're in pro cards:

Nvidia is quite experienced in this business since along with its sinking partner Elsa, where they already made a mark with the well known Quadro brand.

ATI, on the other hand, chose a different approach to this market. It simply bought well know company FireGL with its very strong brand and continued this line with the well known FireGL2 and FireGL4.

X-bit Labs mole has been busy @ AMD cause they seem to have got some details on new AMD CPUs. Here's what their mole is saying:

AMD has recently shown the working prototype systems built on the new generation of AMD processors alongside with some other new achievements at a private meeting of the AMD investors.

They were showcasing two servers built with Sledgehammer processors (Opteron) and two workstations connected to them built on ClawHammer processors. They used 64bit Windows Server OS version for both and were running IIS and Terminal Server software. On the client systems they were running 64bit Internet Explorer. Also AMD demonstrated how well these systems coped with 32bit applications.

ReactorCritical.com are reporting that Club3D introduced the SiS Xabre 400 based videocard in Taiwan. Their solution works at 250/250 MHz for core and memory and utilizes 3.3 ns Hynix chips. The board is equipped with VGA, DVI-I and TV-Out connectors. As the SiS301 chip is also present, the board supports multi-monitor functions.

Just got word from Crow that he attended the official launch of the SiS Xabre GPU @ the Far East International Hotel in Taipei City which also included AOpen and CHAINTECH, C.P.Technology, ECS, GIGA-BYTE, Joytech, SOYO, Transcend , Triplex...

For more info and screenshots hit Read More.

According to a story running at DigiTimes VIA is considering the launch of their Zoetrope codenamed graphics chip in May 2002. Whether the company will launch a Zoetrope-based graphics chip depends on the final performance testing results of the products, VIA said. The Zoetrope is currently at the tape-out stage and is expected to be manufactured using 0.15-micron processing. The product is likely to target the clone market, similar to the new Xabre graphics chip from Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS).

Corsair Memory, Inc., an industry leader in ultra-performance DDR DRAM modules for gaming and overclocking applications, has announced that it is now offering two new 512 megabyte modules tailored specifically for overclocking applications. The first part, Corsair part number CMX512-3200, is guaranteed to operate at 400 MHz. The second part, part number CMX512-3000C2, is guaranteed to operate at 370 MHz, but with a column access strobe latency ("CAS latency") of only two clock cycles. Source: Corsair Micro

AMD announced today AMD Opteron as brand for their next-generation server and workstation processors. Shipments of the AMD Opteron processor are planned to begin in the first half of 2003. AMD Opteron processors will mark AMD's entry into 64-bit computing enterprise market.

The new Triplex Xabre range consists of four chips, the Xabre 80, Xabre 200, Xabre 400 and Xabre 800 which correspond to the SiS 328, SiS 332, SiS 334 and SiS 336 respectively. All four render across four pipelines and 8 texels, double the performance of comparable nVIDIA GeForce products. Three of the four models in the Xabre series are also the world's first to support AGP 8X. And unlike nVIDIA's GeForce 4 MX and ATI's Radeon GPUs, the Xabre series boasts a hardware pixel shader and environment bump mapping. With hardware support for these features and Direct X 8.1, the Xabre series is able to deliver much higher image picture quality and speed. For a quick comparison of the features of the Xabre series compared to nVIDIA's GeForce 4 MX GPUs, please refer to the following table.

Nintendo on Monday upped the ante in the hotly contested video-game market by cutting the price of its GameCube consoles by up to 24 percent in Europe, two weeks before its launch.

GameCube machines will go on sale in Europe on May 3 for $177 (199 euros), down 20 percent from the earlier announced price of $223, and for $186.7 (129 British pounds), a 24 percent discount.

Just got word from Crow that they have managed to get their hands on ATI's Radeon 8500LE 128MB retail card...

The suspicion of the existence of an Athlon XP 2200+ hardens today with official information from AMD on peripheral manufacturers that offer 2200+ compliant parts. The new processor is expected to run at 1800Mhz.

Abit HQ Taiwan has announced their second VIA KT333 based motherboard namely the KX7-333. Compared to the AT7 which comes without all legacy connectors the KX7 will be fully equipped. Read more...

Lian Li Industrial Co. has two new aluminium cases available. These sport a more sleek design and seem even more valuable to the eye. Lian Li also is going to include some nice accessories so be sure to read more.

At WinHEC 2002 - the leading industry conference for information about future directions for systems and peripherals that run Microsoft Windows operating systems - the PCI Special Interest Group and Arapahoe Work Group have announced that the code-named 3GIO draft 1.0 specification has been successfully completed and is being transferred on schedule to the PCI-SIG, where it will be renamed PCI Express. Read more...

Creative Labs Japan has announced a new graphics card based on the Radeon 7500LE GPU which is going to be called 3D Blaster 4 RX7500. Next to Hercules, Creative is the second major brand to join ATI distributors. Read more for a shot of the card and specifications.

Trident Microsystems, Inc. and UMC today announced that Trident is now sampling the XP4, the industry's first 3D graphics processor fabricated using UMC's advanced 130nm (0.13um) CMOS process technology. The XP4 fully implements the DirectX 8.1 graphics standard from Microsoft and delivers one billion pixels/sec performance while consuming less than three watts (max). The breakthrough performance-per-watt is more than twice that of all other competitors. The XP4 uses only 30 million transistors, which is less than half the number of transistors of the nearest desktop equivalent in functionality and performance. UMC's leading edge 130nm process allows the XP4 to benefit from three significant technical advances: Faster transistors that enable higher clock rate, corresponding to higher performance. XP4 engine clock reaches 250MHz and DDR memory clock reaches 666MHz, both of which are the industry's highest clock rate for notebooks with DX8.1 capability. Smaller device geometry that produces smaller chip sizes and results in lower production cost. Lower operating voltage which causes much less power dissipation. A voltage reduction from 1.8 volts (in 180nm process) to 1.2 volts (in 130nm process) can reduce the power dissipation to less than 50%.

AMD today announced the new mobile AMD Athlon XP processor, the first AMD processor manufactured on its state-of-the-art 0.13 micron technology. "Extending the award-winning AMD Athlon XP brand name to our mobile lineup conveys the overwhelming success our flagship AMD Athlon processor family represents," said Ed Ellett, vice president of marketing for AMD?s Computation Product Group. "AMD has always focused on providing what matters most to business and home consumers: leading-edge software application performance and an exceptional computing experience. AMD's transition to 0.13 micron technology allows us to provide a roadmap to higher performance and lower power options."

Thanks to HardwareZ for spotting this Info @ VR-Zone!

This is picture of an updated version of the GeForce4 Ti4600 GPU and apparently NVIDIA has updated their GeForce4 Ti4600 stepping from A2 to A3. If the new stepping can improve its overclockability...

To see the picture and the new clock speeds hit Read More.

Just got word from DarkCrow that they have posted two new previews. Here's what their saying:

ATI FireGL 8800 Preview This contains the products images of the ATI FireGL 8800 and a test result (SPEC ViewPerf v6.1.2) against the Nvidia Geforce4 Ti4600 / ELSA GLoria4 900XGL / Synergy 550XGL.

Canopus SPECTRA Series Preview Canopus in Japan, have announced Canopus SPECTRA series with pictures and product spec's for Geforce4 Ti4600 / GF4 MX460 / GF2 MX4