Tag archive: graphics processors

Advanced Micro Devices, better known by most as AMD, acquired graphics processor manufacturer ATI in 2006. The company was known best before the acquisition as the creator of the Rage and Radeon lines of computer graphics cards, and its tech provides the graphics processing power for the current-gen Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii gaming consoles. Under the new ownership, ATI has continued to deliver high-quality GPUs as one of the top competitors on… Read More

Delivering a gaming experience that is anything but mainstream, the RADEON X700 visual processing units (VPUs) include the advanced, cutting-edge features previously introduced in ATI's RADEON X800family of VPUs and a higher level of performance than some of last year's high-end visual processors, but for less than $200. “The RADEON X700 has been designed to deliver amazing gaming performance in all of today's popular… Read More

Quote from the article: “When XGI Technology announced the Volari line of graphics processors for the desktop and mobile market on September 15th, the collective response from the PC community was…”Wha…?” Closely followed by “who?” Not really surprising if you take things at face value, since in its current incarnation, XGI Technology has only been around since late May of 2003. Four months… Read More