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 Nvidia has put on-line its ForceWare 169.21 drivers, a WHQL candidate in 32-bit and 64-bit versions in Windows Vista and XP. The GeForce 8800 GTS 512 MB is now supported and it’s recommended for the latest DirectX 9, DirectX 10 and OpenGL applications.
Release notes mention numerous fixes mostly concerning the GeForce 6 and 7 in mono-GPU and the GeForce 8 in SLI. You can download it here. |
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 Alereon, a company specialized in Wireless USB chips, and DisplayLink, the creator of the DL120 and DL160 decompression chips which we find in the USB screens such as the SyncMaster 940UX, have jointly announced the first Wireless USB graphic controller. A reference design is available and will be presented at the CES taking place in Las Vegas at the beginning of January.
The maximum resolution will be 1680 x 1050 in 24 bits (16.7 million colors). However, it will be interesting to observe if this remains the case when the distance between the PC and screen surpasses 3 meters as beyond this distance, WUSB speed falls from 60 MB/s to 14 MB /s.
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 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the main producer of AMD and Nvidia GPUs, announced at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting in Washington that they have produced SRAM chips with a capacity of 256 KB in 32nm.
Note that the Taiwanese manufacturer did not use High-K in the process, contrary to the IBM and AMD alliance involving 32nm, while Intel already uses it for its 45nm processors. The size of the cell of these chips is 0.15µm² which is very close to what IBM unveiled yesterday. While no indication was given on when the mass production of chips of this size would start, previous information mentions the 4th quarter of 2009. |
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