AMD, Nvidia cooking up Hammer special?
Posted by Daniel Fleshbourne on 20 April 2002 - 07:29 · 10 comments & 114 views
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WE'RE BEGINNING to hear whispers that just like AMD and Nvidia had their "snap" alliance last year, they are working together on something special for when Clawhammer arrives.
How much of the following is true and how much speculation remains unclear right now – but we do know that Nvidia thinks that its chipset for Clawhammer will be something very special indeed.
What about, for example, if both Nvidia and AMD are co developing a killer workstation combo, with the former deciding to call its contribution to development the NV32-64?
This would indeed by a killer product, we're given to understand, in the overall matrix of things.
Can we expect to see a 2.2GHz Clawhammer with a 13 stage pipeline and caches of 32K level one, 1024K level two, and 3MB of level three?
And a GPU specifically designed to take advantage of hypertransport and linked to the CPU in such a way that its graphic performance will beat the pants over anyone who goes for an integrated K8 chipset?
Featured in today’s New York Times “Circuits” section, EarthViewer 3D transforms the way people receive and use geospatial information by delivering to PCs with an Internet broadband connection a three dimensional model of planet Earth. EarthViewer 3D takes full advantage of NVIDIA’s graphics processing power to deliver a seamless stream of high-resolution satellite images, aerial photographs, maps, point of interest databases and other location-critical data. EarthViewer 3D also allows users to pan, zoom and tilt the view of any location, from Mount Everest to the Grand Canyon, for the ultimate ‘birds eye’ view of the world.
“NVIDIA and Keyhole have partnered to deliver an excellent way for NVIDIA customers to explore the rich and expansive world of 3D,” stated Dan Vivoli, vice president of marketing at NVIDIA. “By presenting a unique and educational way to explore the world, EarthViewer 3D combines all of the pieces needed to deliver an easily accessible, compelling 3D experience, and represents the future of 3D applications for mainstream audiences.”
From April 22 to May 5, NVIDIA will host a limited online promotion, giving 10,000 consumers up to a two-week trial of the EarthViewer 3D program. In addition, those who download the trial version will have the chance to win a Toshiba notebook computer equipped with the NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go GPU by participating in a global treasure hunt to find the NVIDIA logo hidden somewhere in the EarthViewer 3D world. NVIDIA also plans to make EarthViewer 3D available to its OEM partners as an optional software bundle for its GeForce4Ô family of GPUs.
“Keyhole and NVIDIA share the same vision - 3D as a medium,” said John Hanke, CEO at Keyhole Corp. “We are delighted to have NVIDIA as a partner in distributing this innovative application to millions of NVIDIA users.”