Catalyst 14.4 Release Candidate driver brings CrossFire, Mantle tweaks
AMD has released a new graphics driver for Radeon owners. The Catalyst 14.4 Release Candidate driver is based on the 14.4 beta we used in our recent Radeon R9 295 X2 review. It supports the dual-chip Hawaii card, of course, and it also comes with a handful of CrossFire-specific fixes and enhancements. Cue bulleted list:
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Rumor: HTC-built Nexus 8 to arrive next quarter
The latest rumors about Google's upcoming eight-inch tablet are in. This time, the folks at DigiTimes say they've been told the Nexus 8 will be manufactured not by Asus, as previous Nexus slates were, but by HTC.
DigiTimes' "sources from the upstream supply chain" also claim the device will launch some time next quarter—quite a bit later than ...
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Tactile touchscreen buttons coming this year
At CES last year, a company called Tactus demoed a novel twist on touchscreen buttons. The approach pipes fluid into elastic bubbles that rise up from the surface of the screen, providing a measure of tactile feedback that should make touchscreen typing feel more natural. When the buttons aren't required, the fluid is pumped out, and the bubbles sink back into the screen.
The technology sounds straight out of science fiction, but you'll be able to get your fingers on it soon. Technology Review reports reports that Tactus buttons are coming ...
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Report: Next Thunderbolt chip to double bandwidth, add device charging
Intel's Thunderbolt interconnect is apparently scheduled for another upgrade. According to an official-looking slide published by VR-Zone's Chinese alter-ego, a new controller dubbed Alpine Ridge is in the works. This chip promises 40Gbps of bandwidth—double what's available in the current generation of Falcon Ridge hardware.
The faster interface will enable Alpine Ridge to power dual 4K displays over a single cable, the slide says. PCI Express devices should perform faster, as well. The interconnect's PCIe link has reportedly been ...
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AMD: Seattle is sampling, on track for fourth-quarter release
In the conference call that followed its earnings release last week, AMD provided an update on its upcoming Seattle chip, a server-bound processor with ARM cores. The firm says Seattle is on track for a release in the last quarter of the year. Here's the transcript of AMD CEO Rory Read's statement, courtesy of the helpful folks at SeekingAlpha:
When AMD first announced Seattle last June, it said the chip would sample in the first half of this ...
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After briefly settling, AMD decides to Never Settle Forever yet again
Although its Never Settle game bundling promo helped move a lot of Radeons in the past couple of years, AMD quietly let the program lapse before the launch of its R9 290 series graphics cards—and really didn't need any sales help once its GPUs became the sweethearts of the cryptocurrency mining world. Happily, the tight supply-and-demand situation for Radeon cards appears to have eased lately, and AMD has decided to re-institute its game bundling program, mostly in the same form as the Never Settle Forever promo from last summer.
Starting today, folks who purchase Radeon graphics cards "at select retailers" will get to take their choice from a pool of games. If you buy ...
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