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Scientists: Silicon Chips Are Holding Back Game Development

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2007-12-27 08:53:43 by Susan Arendt in Game | Life
...chips are restricting the advancement of videogames. Because the chips have reached their limits of speed and performance, say the scientists, progress in game design is being held back Professor Iain Thayne is leading the team that's researching a new breed of "super chips," that could theoretically allow designers to "develop games that...
 
Tags: chips, silicon chips, super chips, professor iain thayne, thayne, semiconductor research corporation, current games, glasgow university, game design
 
 
 
 
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Jasper 65nm chips could hit 360s by August [update]

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2008-05-08 15:00:00 by Richard Mitchell in Xbox 360 Fanboy
...chips, while Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) has reportedly been contracted to manufacture and the graphics chips, which will in turn be tested and packaged by Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. (ASE). Nanya will be responsible for supplying flip-chip packaging substrates (don't ask us). Furthermore, CENS reports that...
 
Tags: chips, cpu, 65nm cpu, manufacture chips, manufacture, cpu chips, jasper, graphics chips, current falcon 360s
 
 
 
 
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Super chips provide more power for computer games

2007-12-27 21:19:52 by michelewhite in Adrenaline Vault
 
...chips is being designed to make computer games more lifelike. Scientists say the silicon chips that currently power computers and game consoles have reached their peak in terms of speed and ability. An international team of experts is working on a new breed that will allow game designers to create more complex graphics. These new chips could...
 
Tags: chips, super chips, silicon chips, computer games, semiconductor research corporation, current development timeline, michele white, electronics specialists, glasgow university
 
 
 
 
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Intel launches energy-efficient Xeon chips

2008-03-26 14:18:20 by michelewhite in Adrenaline Vault
 
...chips run at 50 watts or 12.5 watts per core but their performance still reaches the 2.5-GHz mark. Intel is making the chips using the 45nm manufacturing process that it first used with its Penryn family of chips, which were unveiled last November The new chips deliver the same performance as their predecessors, the Xeon 5400 Series, but use...
 
Tags: chips, intel, chips deliver, processors, 45-nanometer server processors, companies increasingly, intel corp, companies, power
 
 
 
 
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ATI Announces HD 3000 Mobile Graphics Chips

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2008-01-08 21:57:31 by James Hyde in DigitalBattle
...chips, this time for the noteboook sector. The new ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3000 is based on the recently released HD 3800 series for the desktop, meaning theyre based on the 55nm manufacturing process, something very important for notebooks, as the chips are energy efficient and still deliver a lot of performance.There are two products at the...
 
Tags: chips, graphics chips, ati, ati mobility radeon, graphics card monster, mobile graphics processor, pci express, ps3, based
 
 
 
 
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Rumor: IBM, TSMC to make chips for Xbox 360 Jasper, Valhalla

2008-05-08 11:11:22 by Glen D. in Xbox 360
 
...chips According to Xbitlabs, IBM and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) got orders from Microsoft to produce new 65nm chips for the Jasper. The new Xbox 360 version will reportedly use ATI Xenos graphics and memory controller hub (GMCH) made using 65nm process at TSMC This will put the graphics unit of the Jasper to the same size...
 
Tags: xbox, chips, microsoft xbox, microsoft, jasper, 65nm chips, valhalla, tsmc, version
 
 
 
 
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Forget VC: Never-Released NES Games Finally Come Home In True Form

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2008-02-06 19:28:10 by Jason Cipriano in MTV Multiplayer
...chips inside holding the game data. The actual circuit boards holding the memory chips and making the game function correctly are identical. (Two incompatible games have vastly different circuit boards). What I do is the following remove the old memory chips (ROMs write new memory chips (EPROMs solder the EPROMs to where the ROMs were (they...
 
Tags: nes, nes reproductions, reproductions, collect nes games, games, nes collector, nes system, nes version, nes homebrew scene
 
 
 
 
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Experts develop "super chip" to improve video gaming

2007-12-27 01:03:08 by abid in Wii News | Wii games reviews | Wii Gaming Blog
 
...chips" meant to make ultra-realistic video games.According to them, the silicon chips that are currently being used in computers and gaming consoles already reached the peak of their capabilities, hence the need for the super chips. One of the experts, Professor Iain Thayne from Glasgow University, said:What gamers want is to develop games...
 
Tags: chips, super chips, silicon chips, experts, glasgow university, consoles, games consoles, professor iain thayne, extend battery life
 
 
 
 
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AMD Releases Radeon HD 3870 X2

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2008-01-28 16:19:49 by James Hyde in DigitalBattle
...chips on one board, calling it the HD 3870 X2. The two chips have over 1.3 billion transistors in total, 640 stream processors (3202) and 1 GB of memory. Not only that, but the chips and memory are running at higher clock frequencies than the single chip 3870 cards. Check out the first reviews at PC Perspective and Hot Hardware . The card is...
 
Tags: radeon, amd releases radeon, radeon owners, series graphics card, series, card, amd, chips, graphics card
 
 
 
 
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Intel Preps 6-Core Replacement to Tigerton

2008-02-25 00:13:33 by Chris Morrell in Gomeler.com