...tunity to run and scale their applications in a multi-threaded environment without having to understand the hardware . In a way, this is exactly what Nvidia is promising with CUDA and that is what Inte...
Wednesday, August 06, 2008 00:01
...provement is introduction of OpenGL 3.0 API, after almost a year in delays. OpenGL 3.0 brings updated hardware support for new technologies such as Geometry Shaders, Texture arrays and other fea...
Monday, August 04, 2008 11:52
...ificant. Not only among consumers, but small-to-medium businesses and even enterprises are looking at Apple hardware ," said David Daoud, research manager at IDC. He estimates that Apple will sustainin...
Monday, July 21, 2008 12:33
...ould not be too happy. While Nvidia opened up and provided access to its software libraries, engineers and hardware , Badit noted that AMD was less helpful. It appeared as if AMD was silently blocking...
Monday, July 14, 2008 17:45
...lations and is providing assistance to Badit, including access to documentation, SDKs and more importantly, hardware and actual engineers. In the end, if Badit could get PhysX to run on Radeon cards, ...
Tuesday, July 08, 2008 00:01
...sform and animate any Flash object in 3D space, while retaining full interactivity. Effects are going to be hardware -accelerated for fast, fluid motion without performance penalty. Text layout engine ...
Monday, July 07, 2008 13:12
...anscoding your HD and SD videos into handheld formats such as Apple's iPod/iPhone or Sony's PSP. Of course, hardware acceleration does not work without software and both ATI/AMD and Nvidia are relativ...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 13:12
...ng lip movements) and Adobe has a working version of GPGPU accelerated image editing. Current advances in hardware are taking huge leaps. I can’t quite believe that all we are getting out of this fr...
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 18:29
...ed simulation software. At this point we are convinced that GPU acceleration will become a big part of our hardware future and we are looking forward to products surrounding GeForce, Tesla, Quadro, R...
Friday, May 23, 2008 12:22
GPU acceleration is one of the most significant trends in today
hardware industry, opening the doors to an entirely new class of software. It appears
that the next Photoshop will be one of th
Friday, May 23, 2008 12:01
...e left the PR department as well: Andrzej Bania, Chris Evenden, Lorenzo Martone, Lars Weinand (former Tom’s Hardware Guide editor), Bubba Woolford, Jagoda Zieleznik and many more. When executives and ...
Thursday, April 17, 2008 10:20
...of Infineon's S-GOLD2 chip that - surprise, surprise – is integrated in today's iPhones. It delivers better hardware -accelerated video playback capabilities, support for up to 5-megapixel cameras (ins...
Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:52
...er gestures and an accelerometer or proximity sensor. However, they do set the bar higher in terms of plain hardware specs. It is very obvious that aim to beat the iPhone at its own game and to improv...
Thursday, April 03, 2008 12:21
...d, you really don’t get closer to a barebones design than that. Technical highlights: Specifications and hardware features We were lucky enough to get a technical overview of the Silverthorne some...
Tuesday, April 01, 2008 22:30
...w available to developers. Programmers can make use of the phone's GPS and related location features, hardware -accelerated 3D graphics, and Mac development environment Xcode. Additionally, Appl...
Thursday, March 06, 2008 14:15
...gs in November 2003 to the shutdown of HD DVD today. The list allows you to recall the role of publishers, hardware companies, the Playstation 3 as well as Microsoft, which may have played a signific...
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 09:21
... physics engine.” Hunag believes the integration will encourage people to spend more on graphics processing hardware , as well."Our expectation is that this it will encourage people to buy even better ...
Thursday, February 14, 2008 16:37
...tements and analysis that PhysX was a failure. However, the truth is actually quite the opposite. The PhysX hardware didn't exactly took off in spectacular fashion, but Ageia has been building a m...
Tuesday, February 05, 2008 10:20
... should prove more than tasty to take the plunge and start development of accelerated applications on GPGPU hardware . ...
Friday, February 01, 2008 10:05
...d and a particular type of result which utilizes their ultra-small values is expected. Most floating point hardware today contains a flag or setting which allows the software to tell the processor to...
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 08:31
...bit (single and double) floating point formats because these are the only ones typically supported in other hardware . Compiler writers like to keep things simple, so they make a compiler engine ...
Thursday, November 08, 2007 09:45
...for both spectators and the crazy stunt car drivers who will get in the way of the robots. http://www4.tomshardware .com/site/downloads/darpa_urbanchallenge_pressconf.flv Video: Dr. Tony Tether talks ...
Friday, November 02, 2007 12:38
.... The car now has a long gash and decent sized dent in the back-right quarter panel. http://www4.tomshardware .com/site/downloads/darpa_urbanchallenge_axionracing_crash.flvVideo of Axion Racing&...
Sunday, October 28, 2007 13:56
...nbsp; See the spectacular collision and hear the bone-crunching sounds on our video below. http://www4.tomshardware .com/site/downloads/darpa_urbanchallenge_stingcrash.flv Video of the Sting Racing cr...
Saturday, October 27, 2007 20:10
...y – the new DS3D GX extension in the Xonar D2X driver; to provide full support for surround sound and hardware accelerated features by translating DirectX to the DS3D GX, according to the compan...
Monday, October 08, 2007 09:31
The inventor of the “KillaCycle” electric motorcycle almost killed himself during a demonstration at the Wired NextFest conference. Los Angeles (CA) – The inventor of the “Kil
Monday, September 17, 2007 10:49
Game Review - The unlikely video game phenomenon is back and better than before with Nintendo's newest entry in the Brain Age series. Game Review - The unlikely video game phenomenon is back and
Tuesday, August 21, 2007 15:44
...ively parallel) supercomputers before will have an easy transition opportunity. Of course, knowledge of the hardware , graphics processing and a good look at the parallelizable parts of applications he...
Wednesday, June 20, 2007 14:20
...aded programming, expert knowledge to fine-tune threading and knowledge to exploit the hidden capability of hardware appears to require a whole new approach on how to develop applications – in s...
Monday, June 18, 2007 00:01
...r concept and how do you create an incentive for them to create applications that run on a GPU? Without the hardware , there appears to be no reason for developers to invest into something they do not ...
Friday, May 11, 2007 08:53
AMD is getting more aggressive in discussing technologies that are cooking in the company’s labs. What we learned today is that Agena, the firm’s upcoming desktop quad-core processor in f
Thursday, May 10, 2007 00:49
Intel today launched four new Core 2 Duo processors as part of the much anticipated “Santa Rosa” platform, which not only enhances the Centrino platform core components, but offers comple
Wednesday, May 09, 2007 10:00
Building a supercomputer has become a whole lot easier with stream processing solutions such as Peakstream or Nvidia’s CUDA technology. Peakstream today announced a new version of its applicati
Tuesday, March 27, 2007 14:28
Microsoft today said that its latest operating system is selling at about twice the pace of its predecessor. Extra: Slideshow Redmond (WA) – Microsoft today said that its latest operating
Monday, March 26, 2007 18:02
...m reuse graphics through tilting, scaling or coloring the same graphic multiple ways. We noticed that the hardware accelerated anti-aliasing and tessellation looked great, even on such early prototy...
Friday, March 09, 2007 14:16
Canon today announced a new consumer camcorder that records home videos in 1080i resolution. Lake Success (NY) - Canon today announced a new consumer camcorder that records home videos in 1080i reso
Wednesday, January 31, 2007 23:24
...tial. The software perspective The real challenge in stream computing, however, may not be building "stream hardware ." There aren't many applications that are taking advantage of floating point horsep...
Monday, December 18, 2006 19:46
...ame. However, the company plans to deploy is concept in what Hester called a "collection of special purpose hardware " ranging from the PDA to peta-Flop capable devices. The key idea behind that though...
Thursday, December 14, 2006 16:25
... kind of enthusiasm we would have expected from such an innovative product. Most reviewers, including Tom's Hardware Guide, were hesitant to point to some benefits of the platform and concluded that i...
Friday, December 01, 2006 18:37
...ements with Imagination, but explained that video features, including playback in VGA, are achieved through hardware acceleration provided by the Monahans core; 3D capabilities are currently only enab...
Wednesday, November 29, 2006 14:28
In a briefing with journalists, AMD provided and updated outlook on its future processor and manufacturing plans. The firms 65 nm processors will be introduced in December. The company trails Intel b
Friday, November 17, 2006 21:23
Skype today released the first public beta version of its next-generation Instant messenger and VoIP client. Described as a ""major milestone release,"" Skype 3.0 will become more social and more mai
Wednesday, November 08, 2006 16:56
...ge quickly and promises a 3.4x performance gain with four cores. The transition to multi-core-gaming: Valve Hardware Day 2006 Click here to see pictures of the Core 2 Extreme QX6700... Valve has been ...
Thursday, November 02, 2006 05:15
...o the list of supported graphics cards soon. The driver can be downloaded fro ATI's website. Join the Tom's Hardware Guide Community Folding@Home Team Related articles: The hidden potential in your gr...
Tuesday, October 31, 2006 21:07
...elopers to add graphics cards to computer systems as a way to create "cheap" supercomputers. Join the Tom's Hardware Guide Community Folding@Home Team Related articles: The hidden potential in your gr...
Friday, September 29, 2006 17:03
...Hz core speed, 2x1MB L2 cache), the sources noted. More here at DigiTimes. Related articles: Preview: Tom's Hardware benchmarks Intel's first quad-core "Kentsfield" Intel roadmap confirms 2.67 GHz qua...
Tuesday, September 19, 2006 13:38
...ssing in dual-GPU SLI configurations; ATI calls this process load balancing and talked about opening up the hardware platform to allow software developers to access excess performance capability in gr...
Monday, September 18, 2006 20:49
Desktops and laptops can usually display video at decent framerates, but what about smaller mobile phones and PDAs? According to Futuremark, these diminutive gadgets now have enough graphical power t
Thursday, September 14, 2006 00:25
Microsoft released its Live Search engine late Monday in an effort to catch up with market leaders Google and Yahoo. It is Microsoft's most aggressive move against Google yet and shows promising, uni
Tuesday, September 12, 2006 03:04
Intel's first quad-core processor "Kentsfield" has found its way into the Tom's Hardware test lab. Several weeks before Intel will provide evaluation processors to the press, Tom's Hardware was able
Saturday, September 09, 2006 04:05
Multi-touch display 
Nvidia rolls out Tegra 
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Electric Motorcycle inventor crashes at NextFest 
