Trident Microsystems talks about a new GPU they have coming out that's poised to rattle the market - Aimed at the budget consumer, their new line of XP4 GPUs will soon be on the streets and offer full DirectX 9 hardware support for under $100.00.
The XP4 T3 contains only 30 million transistors and running at 300MHz. ATI's Radeon 9700 has 110 million transistors !!! And yet, the XP4 T3 will achieve 70 percent of the Radeon 9700 in performance. As the result, the XP4 T3 graphics board with 128MB of video memory only costs $99 compared to $399 for a card based on the Radeon 9700. We believe that giving up only 30 percent of performance in exchange for 75 percent price reduction is a compelling trade-off for 97 percent of the 3D graphics users.
The card will hit the stores in October 2002.
News source: Gamers Depot
The XP4 T3 contains only 30 million transistors and running at 300MHz. ATI's Radeon 9700 has 110 million transistors !!! And yet, the XP4 T3 will achieve 70 percent of the Radeon 9700 in performance. As the result, the XP4 T3 graphics board with 128MB of video memory only costs $99 compared to $399 for a card based on the Radeon 9700. We believe that giving up only 30 percent of performance in exchange for 75 percent price reduction is a compelling trade-off for 97 percent of the 3D graphics users.
The card will hit the stores in October 2002.
News source: Gamers Depot
Rafa is well known on the hacker scene, and fronted the notorious website defacement group, World of Hell, throughout most of 2001.
But when he quit to move on at the start of this year the rest of the group disbanded. It has now become apparent that Rafa has moved on to become an 'investigative' hacker rather than a website vandal.
Indeed, he claims to be more of a 'researcher' these days and insisted that that he did not understand the sensitivity of the Nasa documents when he discovered them.
The information is said to include engineering details about the Cobra space shuttle engine design programme, as well as information on the Boeing TA4 Advanced Checkout, Control & Maintenance System for the next generation of space shuttles.
While it is not thought that the documents could be used to damage the space programme, they are restricted under export law and US International Trafficking in Arms regulations.
The information is reported to be of most interest to foreign governments and competitors in the same space.
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