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Analyst says AMD gaining ground vs. Intel, Nvidia
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| An analyst said Friday that Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the struggling chip
| giant, appeared to be gaining some ground on rivals Intel Corp. and Nvidia
| Corp.
| But Craig Berger of Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co. also said AMD's stated
| goal to revamp its manufacturing operations, a change dubbed "asset lite,"
| has become more important as the chip giant potentially faces another "cash
| crunch."
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/analyst-says-amd-gaining-ground/story.aspx?guid=%7B5368402C-AEB0-4A3D-BA67-07A7BDE7DB99%7D&dist=msr_30
http://tinyurl.com/5kky9n
Recent:
Nvidia chipsets are history
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| THERE ARE A ton of 'rumors' floating around about Nvidia giving up the ghost
| on it's ailing chipset division. Nvidia is desperately trying to deny it, but
| don't believe the spin, the division is deader than an Nvidia mobile GPU.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/feeds/rss/generic/en/GB/inq/latest/gb/inquirer/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/02/nvidia-chipsets-dead
http://tinyurl.com/5rgo6c
How Closed Does Nvid[i]a want to Be?
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| Not so much staying closed, as closing down....
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-closed-does-nvida-want-to-be.html
Nvidia "opens can of whoop-ass" on itself
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| Nvidia is going to lose gobs and gobs of market share this year. They are
| effectively out of notebooks, will lose the high end in days, don't have
| anything close to a competitive line-up, have higher costs than ATI, and have
| to shell out money to keep partners alive. If you think this is bad, wait a
| little.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/02/nvidia-opens-whoop-ass-itself
Kernel space: drivers that don't make the kernel scene
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| Linux supports most hardware "out of the box" without adding a driver. Most
| of the missing drivers are proprietary, from uncooperative manufacturers, but
| there are a few where the license is right but the actual code is still
| missing. Why?
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/062408-kernel.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
How NVidia impedes Free Desktop adoption.
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| nvidia.ko: The NVidia driver is the single component in a KDE4 / Free
| Operating system stack causing us most of the hard-to-solve problems. In
| other words, nvidia.ko has grave technical shortcomings.
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http://vizzzion.org/?blogentry=819
Linux Foundation points finger at Nvidia
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| Though a statement issued Monday does not cite Nvidia by name, Linux
| Foundation Technical Advisory Board Chair James Bottomley cited Nvidia in a
| phone interview. "My intent is to point out the problems Nvidia has been
| causing themselves with their binary-only (drivers)," he said. "They are
| certainly one of the few companies sticking to a binary-only strategy."
| Binary-only means the drivers are essentially closed.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9975720-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Position Statement on Linux Kernel Modules
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Kernel_Driver_Statement
NVidia says no to request to release open source drivers, once again
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| Nvidia reiterated that it won’t provide open source drivers for Linux because
| the company claims there is no need for it.
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| Nvidia provides binary Linux drivers and has open sourced some drivers such
| as the nv X driver and other utilities that work with the proprietary driver,
| including the installer, config and settings.The company is a leading
| provider of graphics cards and software for the desktop and embraces a cross
| platform strategy.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2588
AMD OverDrive On Linux
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| When it comes to ATI hardware, one of the features we have been after for the
| longest time on Linux has been any overclocking support. Windows users have
| ATI's OverDrive at their disposal along with an arsenal of third-party
| utilities such as ATI Tool. NVIDIA also has various utilities for
| overclocking their graphics cards on Windows, but they also provide support
| for overclocking on Linux. Today though with the release of the Catalyst 8.8
| Linux driver there is finally ATI OverDrive 5 support on Linux.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_overdrive_linux&num=1
Coming Soon: AMD R600 3D Documentation
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| For months we have been telling you that AMD has been preparing to release
| their R600 series documentation as well as opening up the source-code to two
| of their internal software projects used for testing new graphics processor
| designs prior to the availability of the actual hardware. Advanced Micro
| Devices has yet to release their 3D programming documentation covering the
| R600 series (or the brand-new RV770) nor the source-code to their two
| internal projects (TCore and KGrids), but following several postings in our
| forums over the past couple of weeks and many emails inquiring about the
| status, today we have a brief update to share.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_r600_soon&num=1
RadeonHD Driver Switches To AtomBIOS
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| A number of the R500 and R600 graphics cards though have hard-coded
| mode-setting support that was done over the past year, but not all of that
| work has gone to waste. Where there is a hard-coded path, the RadeonHD driver
| will still use it unless the user sets the UseAtomBIOS option within their
| xorg.conf. For all other chipsets, AtomBIOS is used by default.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjY1MQ
AMD Makes An Evolutionary Leap In Linux Support
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| Tux being part of their licensed box design, forthcoming CrossFire support,
| and other major features coming are major wins for the Linux community. For
| those concerned that AMD is attempting to build back up its binary blockade,
| don't worry as their open-source strategy will continue with the RV770. AMD
| engineers are in the process of sanitizing the programming documentation for
| this brand new GPU for public release in the coming weeks. We suspect the
| xf86-video-ati and xf86-video-radeonhd developers will have the documentation
| even sooner under NDA. In addition, the open-sourcing of KGrids and TCore
| will be relevant and helpful for the 2D and 3D RV770 open-source support.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_evolution&num=1
AMD teraflop processor is all about open-source
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| The Stream SDK’s Brook+ front-end is available as open source code.
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http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2008/06/16/43935/amd-teraflop-processor-is-all-about-open-source.htm
http://tinyurl.com/68qs26
AMD Releases Stream SDK For Linux
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| NVIDIA's competition for Stream computing is CUDA, which is the Compute
| Unified Device Architecture, or CUDA for short. CUDA has been supported on
| Linux now for some time and NVIDIA is in the process of bringing PhysX to
| CUDA, for physics acceleration thanks to their acquisition of AGEIA. Intel's
| competition is Ct, or C for Throughput Computing.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_stream_released&num=1
AMD Stream SDK Coming To Linux Soon
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| NVIDIA has long supported their CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture)
| technology on Linux for allowing general-purpose code algorithms to be
| executed on the graphics processor, while AMD and their Stream Computing
| support has been absent on Linux. AMD has only been supporting their Stream
| SDK on Windows XP, but this morning we have confirmation that the Software
| Development Kit will be released for Linux in the coming days.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjQ2Mw
ATI/AMD's Open-Source Plans
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| Starting off the X.Org talks at FOSDEM 2008 was AMD's John Bridgman, who has
| been leading the AMD GPG open-source efforts. John had talked briefly about
| the history of their open-source efforts for the R500+ series and the
| evolution of AMD GPU hardware. Among the interesting comments made were that
| TexturedVideo/X-Video support for the R500/600 may be coming quite soon, DRM
| and Mesa work forthcoming, open-source multi-GPU multi-GPU support is on the
| road-map, and they will be re-releasing R200 programming documents. The RV620
| and RV635 documentation is expected in the near future.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=fosdem_08_bridgman&num=1
Could AMD move open desktop Linux market?
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| AMD’s recent move to fully support open source graphics could be the best
| news desktop Linux has had in a long time.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1427
AMD Launches Open GPU Website
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| AMD has today launched their new open GPU documentation website for
| register-level documents covering their ATI Radeon products. In addition,
| they are now providing an email address for any open-source developers who
| may have questions concerning these documents.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjMyOQ
AMD Delivers OpenGL Performance Increase for Linux Professional
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| Version 8.49.7 of the ATI Catalyst Driver is now available for download via
| the ATI Catalyst Linux software suite...
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http://newsticker.welt.de/index.php?channel=fin&module=smarthouse&id=746092
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