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1. AMD says Fusion will knock Intel for six. Or five

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 11 November 2009

   ... devices to supercomputers.” And: “The best hardware is hardware you don’t notice.” AMD, he said, has some priorities and those are to win in the popular usage areas that are video, graphics, computers ...

2. Nvidia: Fermi production schedule remains on track

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 09 November 2009

   Manufacturing process to kick off in the "next couple of months" The DigiTimes recently speculated that Nvidia could experience a "waning" market share if the company delayed the launch of its Fermi ...

3. Parallels takes on VMware

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 04 November 2009

   ... games and 3D applications - Direct X 9Ex Shader Model 3 and OpenGL 2.1 support. Utilization of full hardware resources - 8 virtual CPUs, 64 bit Windows and Snow Leopard Server 64 bit. Copy & Paste fidelity ...

4. Khronos Group details cross-platform WebGL initiative

   (Software/Software Features)

   Tuesday, 04 August 2009

   The Khronos Group has announced additional details of its WebGL project. The initiative - first introduced at the Game Developers Conference in March 2009 - was launched to facilitate the hardware-based ...

5. Chrome to get hardware accelerated 3D graphics

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 22 July 2009

   Google has begun building its O3D plug-in for hardware-accelerated 3D graphics into its Chrome browser. Google has begun building its O3D plug-in for hardware-accelerated 3D graphics into its Chrome ...

6. Microsoft confirms Windows 7 is done

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 22 July 2009

   ... broken brand. Hardware and software vendors will use Windows 7 RTM (build 7600) to finalize their products that will adapt the operating system. As previously reported, Microsoft will begin selling ...

7. Google Chrome OS: Gcrap reveals the next Netscape

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Monday, 20 July 2009

   ... is that it isn’t hardware independent and the related hardware is very expensive during a year when folks don’t have a lot of extra money. This will cut down on how much share Apple will take sharply. ...

8. Apple replaces Jobs with a row of execs at WWDC

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 13 May 2009

   ... is a developer conference, there are plenty of tracks and sessions, focusing on the iPhone and Mac OS.  Apple isn’t talking about any hardware that may be announced, and Schiller will need a 64-bit ...

9. Upscale your DVDs to HD quality with GPU-accelerated software

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 01 April 2009

   ... abstracting away hardware considerations and allowing the developer to deal in data concepts, will change the way many of our devices operate in the years to come. This is true of mobile, handheld devices, ...

10. The next iPhone looms on the horizon

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 25 March 2009

    ... and one iPod touch model, all sporting major hardware changes. The rumored high-end iPhone will get a higher-resolution camera with video recording capability pushed as premium feature. Will it be ...

11. Adobe: The GPU is not a universal app accelerator

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 19 February 2009

    ... this idea is the limited bandwidth of the graphics card hardware interface. I was told in order to take advantage of the GPU, data has to be shipped to a graphics card the rate of about 3 GB/s. In general ...

12. More new OS X Snow Leopard features emerge

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 11 February 2009

    ... QuickTime X that enables broader support for audio and video codecs plus hardware-accelerated decoding and playback. But we didn't know that it also packs QuickTime Pro features free of charge. Apparently ...

13. Review: Internet Explorer 8 improves with age

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 28 January 2009

    ... FX 5200 Go graphics and a 4200 rpm notebook hard drive. Our results are likely to vary greatly from those you may be able to achieve on other PCs - as these benchmarks rely heavily on the used hardware. ...

14. Elcomsoft releases GPU accelerated Wi-Fi password cracker, 48x faster

    (Software/Software Brief)

    Thursday, 15 January 2009

    Moscow (Russia) - HotHardware has a mini-review up of a software program which is showing how phenomenally powerful the GPU-acceleration can be to defeating encryption or security. ElcomSoft's Wireless ...

15. Outsourcing wave to hit Hollywood actors

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Friday, 09 January 2009

    ... of applications the hardware vendors tell us have not been invented yet. However, for the next generation of hardware, I will make a prediction: Multi-core processors and capable graphics hardware will ...

16. Apple acquires 3.6% of Imagination to secure graphics tech for future iPhones

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 18 December 2008

    ... SGX/VXD graphics and video IP cores is Apple. The news is considered as yet another indication that Apple in fact is designing its own hardware platforms. Cupertino (CA) - Apple has taken a 3.6% stake ...

17. ATI Stream driver now available for download

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 10 December 2008

    ... your hardware. ATI is finally making stream processing and its CAL (Compute Abstraction Layer), a feature that was previously only available for its dedicated stream processor cards, available for its ...

18. Red Hat announces Fedora 10

    (Software/Software Brief)

    Tuesday, 25 November 2008

    ... 10 supports “more hardware than any other operating system”.  ...

19. OS X Snow Leopard: It’s all about speed

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 20 October 2008

    ... the new green. There is a certain kind of excitement behind this release as it may be one of the first applications that truly reveal how good modern hardware really is. That is in a stark contrast to ...

20. Rumor round-up: New Apple laptops

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 10 October 2008

    ... again. There are reasonable expectations what Apple is most likely to introduce – a refreshed notebook family with upgraded hardware – but there is lots of speculation about a mysterious “Brick” manufacturing ...

21. 5 reasons why Apple should build its own iPhone SoC (and 5 why it won't last)

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 19 September 2008

    ...          Christian: Apple-designed SoCs make sense!   1. Cutting-edge gadgets with killer hardware. Today's iPhone uses off the shelf parts accessible to others (such ...

22. Apple to build iPhone processors with ARM, Imagination and Samsung technologies?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 18 September 2008

    ... 2.0 functionality and the Universal Scalable Shader Engine for hardware-accelerated, shader-based 3D graphics. The VXD core plays HD video with a power consumption comparable to the existing audio playback ...

23. High-end coprocessors: An overview

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 17 September 2008

    ...  ? 1400M ? 256M ? ? ? Special Features 1x PCIe CrossFire Dedicated video hardware 1x PCIe SLI 2/3 Dedicated ...

24. Windows 7 Beta in October, final in June 2009?

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 16 September 2008

    ... by Computerworld, Microsoft may roll out the first beta at one of its upcoming developer conferences – which would be the Professional Developers Conference (PDC, October 27-30) and the Windows Hardware ...

25. Abe Lincoln and Tesla to reside at NCSA in October

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 11 September 2008

    ... (64-bit) and 16 GB of memory.  Nvidia donated the hardware and works with team members to make its CUDA software development kits adaptable for use in a supercomputing model. The use of Nvidia's ...

26. Larrabee, CUDA and the quest for the free lunch

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 05 August 2008

    ... without having to understand the hardware. In a way, this is exactly what Nvidia is promising with CUDA and that is what Intel is saying about Larrabee. Nvidia always said that CUDA is just a set of C++ ...

27. Nvidia readies driver ‘Big Bang’ September, brings OpenGL 3.0 and SLI multi-monitor support

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 04 August 2008

    ... 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 features introduced with DirectX ...

28. Apple battling Acer for the third spot in US computer shipments

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 21 July 2008

    ... are looking at Apple hardware," said David Daoud, research manager at IDC. He estimates that Apple will sustaining growth in the upcoming quarters, citing strong more PC switchers and third quarter back-to-school ...

29. Does AMD block PhysX on Radeon development?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 14 July 2008

    ... finish his software and you just knew that at least one side would not be too happy. While Nvidia opened up and provided access to its software libraries, engineers and hardware, Badit noted that AMD ...

30. Nvidia supports PhysX effort on ATI Radeon

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 07 July 2008

    ... In fact, Nvidia has opened access to Developer Relations and is providing assistance to Badit, including access to documentation, SDKs and more importantly, hardware and actual engineers. In the end, if ...

31. Adobe Flash Player 10 beta: hardware-accelerated eye-candy

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 07 July 2008

    ... interactivity. Effects are going to be hardware-accelerated for fast, fluid motion without performance penalty. Text layout engine builds on the co-existing TextField features and now provides much deeper, ...

32. GPU transcodes four 1080p video files in real time

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 25 June 2008

    ... or Sony's PSP. Of course, hardware acceleration does not work without software and both ATI/AMD and Nvidia are relatively weak in this area. It is one side to demonstrate a cool technology, but you really ...

33. Is Microsoft gambling away its Windows empire?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Wednesday, 28 May 2008

    ... in hardware are taking huge leaps. I can’t quite believe that all we are getting out of this from Microsoft will be an evolutionary step above Vista. Conclusion Of course, anything that happens to ...

34. Nvidia has more than 70 million GPGPUs in the market

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 23 May 2008

    ... hardware future and we are looking forward to products surrounding GeForce, Tesla, Quadro, Radeon, FireGL, FireStream and Larrabee.  ...

35. Photoshop to get GPU and physics acceleration

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 23 May 2008

      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 the ...

36. Analysis: How AMD Asset Light will reveal MAD AMD

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 17 April 2008

    ... here, but a lot of people 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. ...

37. Decoding Apple’s iPhone 2.0 firmware: New features we now know about

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 10 April 2008

    ... Google this chipset, you will find that S-GOLD 3 (also known as PMB8878) is the successor of Infineon's S-GOLD2 chip that - surprise, surprise – is integrated in today's iPhones. It delivers better hardware-accelerated ...

38. Will we ever see an iPhone killer?

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 03 April 2008

    ... terms of plain hardware specs. It is very obvious that aim to beat the iPhone at its own game and to improve the device’s weaknesses and offer features such as 3G support, GPS, video recording, higher ...

39. Intel fires up new Atom processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 01 April 2008

    ... 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 time ...

40. Apple unwraps the iPhone software development kit

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 06 March 2008

    ... used internally by Apple for the iPhone are now available to developers.  Programmers can make use of the phone's GPS and related location features, hardware-accelerated 3D graphics, and Mac development ...

41. HD DVD’s rise and fall: A timeline

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 19 February 2008

    ... ranging from the very beginnings 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 ...

42. PhysX to become a CUDA extension, PS4 developers rejoice

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 14 February 2008

    ... 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 GPUs. It might, and probably will, encourage people ...

43. Analysis: Nvidia’s Ageia purchase – a brilliant move?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 05 February 2008

    ... numerous statements 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 ...

44. AMD's RV670 does double-precision at half the speed

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 01 February 2008

    ... start development of accelerated applications on GPGPU hardware.  ...

45. ClearSpeed's CATS purr along at near teraflop speeds

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 14 November 2007

    ... have an impact on computed data if denormalized operands are encountered and a particular type of result which utilizes their ultra-small values is expected. Most floating point hardware today contains ...

46. AMD goes against Nvidia’s Tesla with new stream processor card

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 08 November 2007

    ... modern compilers support only 32-bit and 64-bit (single and double) floating point formats because these are the only ones typically supported in other hardware.  Compiler writers like to keep things ...

47. Video: “We really don’t know what they’re going to do” – DARPA Urban Challenge head

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 02 November 2007

    ... 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 about his scary moment As the qualification ...

48. Video: Axion Racing’s bot collides into chase car at Urban Challenge

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Sunday, 28 October 2007

    ... chase car.  Fortunately the driver was unhurt, but the Ford Taurus he was driving wasn’t so lucky.  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 ...

49. Video: Bots crash at the DARPA Urban Challenge

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Saturday, 27 October 2007

    ... into another K-Rail on its practice run.  See the spectacular collision and hear the bone-crunching sounds on our video below. http://www4.tomshardware.com/site/downloads/darpa_urbanchallenge_stingcrash.flv ...

50. Asustek releases Xonar audio card products

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 08 October 2007

    ... 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 company. More here ...