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AMD has launched a media focused chipset designed for mainstream budget Windows 7 PCs..

AMD reckons its new ATI Radeon E4690 GPU trebles the 3D performance of any of its embedded graphics chips to date

The Nvidia Ion finally pops up in HP's latest netbook addition with an 11.6in screen, 250GB HDD and a graphics chip devoted to 1080p video and even some games.

Nvidia’s remix of the popular netbook platform lends Intel’s stripped-down Atom some added Graphical clout. We test the technology to see how it performs

AMD has been displaying its new ATI Eyefinity graphics card system, which allows users to run six monitors from a single card.

AMD has released a new GPU for embedded graphics applications with more than triple the 3D graphics performance of its earlier embedded products.

Revolutionary features and stunning power: for anyone lucky enough to have the cash, the Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds is the ultimate mobile workstation

ATI’s 40nm GPU is an exciting development and takes over from the 4850 as the best mid-range card.

With MARS, Asus managed to do its own version of a "beyond GTX295" dual GPU card. It has two full-speed GTX285 cards per slot, a total of 2GB RAM, a full complement of 240 shaders and 512-bit buses per GPU

Company says it has a six month head start on the competition with new cards.

AMD may be first to ship Direct X11 compatible graphics cards onto the market in a huge play for the company. It's hoped that the codec will encourage better support for HD and 3D content, particularly amongst Windows 7 users.

The GPU acceleration platform hits new milestone, using the parallel processing abilities of graphics chips to shoulder some of the processing load from the CPU.

Intel's Atom platform may provide the backbone of today's netbooks, but with rivals emerging, Intel could find itself playing a smaller part in the future, as players such as Nvidia's Tegra take hold.

Here's our quick guide to buying a cheap laptop that isn't a pile of junk - from CPUs, to graphics, to price and other specs.

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A GeForce CPU in your music player? It seems that Nvidia's Tegra chip give Microsoft's Zune - and around 50 other devices - some interesting gaming potential.

A surprise return to form for Nvidia, as this card matches ATI’s latest for both performance and value.

At his keynote address to the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco the company's general manager of architecture Sean Maloney will be showing off Intel's first 32nm processor, codenamed Westmere..