"Rewriting the rules for enthusiast computing, AMD unveiled its new platform codenamed 'Spider', with the first true quad-core processor supporting scalable graphics for The Ultimate Visual Experience. The AMD Spider platform combines the introduction of AMD Phenom quad-core processors, ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series graphics processors with Microsoft DirectX 10.1 support, AMD 7-Series chipsets with CrossFireX and AMD OverDrive software. The AMD Spider platform is a major milestone on the path to Accelerated Computing, AMD's vision for platform-level acceleration through co-processing."
[ via PhysOrg.com on Nov. 19 ]
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
Quad GPU's pretty frigan spiffy. Spider sounds nasty too. It makes me wonder what game will promote this product.
I had a couple of 8800 gts in sli and decided to put 1 in my girls pc since for anything out now even crysis the 1 8800 gts was more then enough.
I sincerely hope that this set kicks Intel's A$$
theres no way this could dethrone the quad core2duo extreme setups.
first off in this spider setup, the phenom is a major bottleneck.
so yeah youll have massive gpu processing but the phenom is trash in comparison to a c2dextreme. Most reviews call the phenom's a complete failure in regaining the market.
the quad gpu is nice for amd/ ati. Its just not enough when intel and nvidia are sure likely to come out with their own quad gpu soon with a more capable cpu and gpu available.
i would personally get quad 9800ultras with a 45nm c2dextreme and hopefully 8 gigs of ram(depending on mb) as soon as its available.
As of right now, ati/amd cannot compete with intel/nvidia.
Good old days. If they don't do something soon, it's all over boys. I'd hate to see AMD out of the picture but it looks like they are going the way of VIA.
..........and pay more than 2k for a new cpu.
i would hate that too. it wouldnt be allowed though.
at least not for long, remember when ms was creating a monopoly? they got fined up the a$$ and the monopoly was mandated to be broken.
its tough to tell what will happen though.
im interested to see if amd and ati can bounce back. it seems as like since they joined forces, their technical achievements/performance goals have been lost in the process.