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SLI Technology

Unveiled in the summer of 2004, SLI (Scaleable Link Interface) is Nvidia's revolutionary approach to 3D graphics scalability which exploits the additional bandwidth and features of the PCI Express bus architecture to allow two graphics … [Read more...]

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Fahrenheit Graphic Cards

Fahrenheit was another Microsoft initiative eventually to founder in the rapidly changing, quixotic multimedia graphics technology arena. It emerged out of the battle between Silicon Graphics' and Microsoft's 3D computer graphics APIs in … [Read more...]

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Talisman

Unveiled at Siggraph 1996, Talisman was a Microsoft initiative to improve the quality, performance and integration of audio and video media technologies on the PC. Its eventual aim was a single PCI expansion board which integrated … [Read more...]

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Direct3D

The key to the way Direct3D (D3D) allows the game developer to author games independently of PC's hardware is its Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL), which has the effect of making the software device independent. The HAL provides an … [Read more...]

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OpenGL technology

Initiated in 1992 by Silicon Graphics as a general CAD and 3D API for Unix-based X-terminals, OpenGL evolved out of SGI's proprietary graphics library, IrisGL. Originally, use of OpenGL was restricted to business applications, such as … [Read more...]

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DirectX

Graphics technology is a particularly fast-developing area of the PC industry, with new chipsets, new revisions of chipsets and even entirely new technologies appearing at an alarming rate. This presents a problem for applications wishing … [Read more...]

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Unified Display Special Interest Group

The Unified Display Interface Special Interest Group (UDI SIG) was announced in December 2005, with a membership which includes Silicon Image Inc., Intel, Apple Computer, LG, Samsung and NVIDIA. The group finalised its V1.0a specification in July 2006, proposing a digital video … [Read more...]

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Graphic Card Display Port – History

Announced in May 2006, the new DisplayPort standard was developed by a VESA Task Group comprised of leading companies in the display silicon, connector, computer monitor, TV display, projector, and PC industry segments. Key objectives were to specify an open, licence-free … [Read more...]

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Graphic Card HDMI Ports

HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is the first industry-supported, uncompressed, all-digital audio/video interface. While it carries the same video signal as DVI, the big difference with its predecessor is that instead of using the remaining pins for an optional video signal, HDMI uses … [Read more...]

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HDCP Technology

High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection is effectively a copy protection scheme designed to eliminate the possibility of intercepting digital data midstream between the source to the display. Using hardware on both the graphics adapter card and the monitor, HDCP will encrypt … [Read more...]

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20 Cool Creative Commons Photographs About the Future of AI

AI technology is starting to have a huge impact on our lives. The market value for AI is estimated to have been worth $279.22 billion in 2024 and it … [Read More...]

13 Impressive Stats on the Future of AI

AI technology is starting to become much more important in our everyday lives. Many businesses are using it as well. While he has created a lot of … [Read More...]

Graphic Designers on Reddit Share their Views of AI

There are clearly a lot of positive things about AI. However, it is not a good thing for everyone. One of the things that many people are worried … [Read More...]

Redditors Talk About the Impact of AI on Freelance Writers

AI technology has had a huge impact on our lives. A 2023 survey by Pew Research found that 56% of people use AI at least once a day or once a week. … [Read More...]

11 Most Popular Books on Perl Programming

Perl is not the most popular programming language. It has only one million users, compared to 12 million that use Python. However, it has a lot of … [Read More...]

10 Exceptional Books on ChatGPT that Will Blow Your Mind

ChatGPT is a powerful new AI tool that is taking the world by storm. You are going to find a lot of amazing books that will teach you how to make the … [Read More...]

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