With a full system that performs discreetly in half the size of the previous GPUs, the NVIDIA 9400 and 9300 mGPUs have CUDA capability with 16 cores. NVIDIA even made a promise that these integrated GPUs have high technical specifications where you can play the latest and top of the line PC games and watch your favorite movies in high definition with its Blu-ray video capability.

According to Dr. Jon Peddie, these new GPUs gives NVIDIA more advantages that other graphical integrated chips. One of them is that the GeForce 9400 and 9300 mGPUs does a simpler processing that makes it user-friendly and also more practical when it comes to the price, just like what most buyers are expecting from the latest desktop PCs.

With NVIDIA’s Hybrid SLI technology, it gives higher performance boost of up to 70% higher than the motherboard GPU alone. Now that the new integrated GPU from has come, NVIDIA is expected to ship the new GPUs this month.

Larrabee provides practical solution to current limitations of GPUs. Larrabee does not special API for Larrabee, it works with current APIs for DirectX and OpenGL. Larrabee uses 1024-bit ring bus to transfer data efficiently and fast between gpu cores. All cores are true x86 processors, based on original Pentium architecture + many extensions and additions added to that base.

Larrabee is completely flexible and completely programmable, offering many optimization compared to existing technology and will revolutionize graphics industry. To paint this more plasticly - picture this - Larrabee gpu will be able to support DirectX 10, and then when released DirectX 11, and some years in future - DirectX 12 - yes on the same board…

Larrabee supports massive parallelism and scalability, which should be high-end GPU selling point probably (maybe not at the start). Memory technology used in final product was not yet reveled, but Intel's engineers say that there is no limitation to which memory technology can be used. Our sources indicated that GDDR5 will be used in final product, and very likely Intel will include 4 cores at entry level card, with high-end card's number yet undecided. But Intel's internal goal is to reach 2 teraflops of computing power. 

We hear that at least two big manufacturers (and from good relationship with Intel, we suspect that Gigabyte is one of them) will start offering Larrabee based graphisc boards from day zero - while other graphics cards manufacturers are being drafted by Intel as we speak (to angry the Nvidia for sure)… Anyhow, we heard that official release date for cards is June 1st 2009 - almost a year from now… (hopefully intel will be able to push this date closer to now).

Developers who were revealed more architecture details, were very pleased as Intel would like us to believe.

More information on Larrabee will follow soon - on august 4th, but collective info is available on wikipedia.

Even though DirectX 10 is still quite fresh in developers and casual gamer's minds, Microsoft are already making a push to bring more advancements in the form of DirectX 11.

The company has today announced some initial details. One particular and expected highlight of DX11 is tessellation support which as far as I know is already being used in current-gen consoles such as the 360. It blurs the line between super high quality pre-rendered scenes and scenes rendered in real-time, allowing game developers to refine models to be smoother and more attractive when seen up close. There are a number of other interesting additions MS is working on for the new API. This in a shell means that DX11 hardware will be quite different from DX10, as new features will be mandatory done in hardware. As for the tessalation unit goes, ATI is already supporting it from Radeon HD 2600 onwards..

Changes will also ba made in full support (including all DX11 hardware features) on Windows Vista as well as future versions of Windows:

•  Compatibility with DirectX 10 and 10.1 hardware, as well as support for new DirectX 11 hardware
•  New compute shader technology that lays the groundwork for the GPU to be used for more than just 3D graphics, so that developers can take advantage of the graphics card as a parallel processor
• Multi-threaded resource handling that will allow games to better take advantage of multi-core machines It also goes without saying that XP users will be left out in the cold on this one.

You can read more here.

According to Crytek, will assume the role of Sergeant Sykes in Crysis Warhead and experience his “parallel story during the events of the original game, finding that life on the other side of the island is even more intense and explosive than they ever could have imagined.”

The game will be available for PC this fall. Rumor has it that Warhead will be Crysis Warhead will be Crytek's last PC-only game, as company intends to slowly shift focus towards gaming consoles… As Crytek is powerful in DirectX programming, it is speculated extension to Xbox 360 and its successor, while it is still unclear if company will produce a PS3 version as well…