As the Tech world waits for the impending iPad announcement on March 2nd – AMD scores a significant design win. The Radeon HD 6000M will team with Sandy Bridge i5 and i7 processors in the new MacBook Pro laptops. The Radeon HD 6000M provides the MacBook Pro with 1GB of GDDR5 dedicated memory. See more on the new MacBook Pro … Read more
It is amazing to see the gold rush fever that’s happening over tablets — no, it’s astounding. Doesn’t seem like anyone’s had an original idea since Apple introduced the iPad and yet everyone plans on beating Apple at its own game without a clue or a strategy other than to show up with something that has a touch sensitive screen. … Read more
The 58th ISSCC is being held in San Francisco this week, the ISSCC is the major forum for presenting advances in solid-state circuits and systems-on-a-chip. The conference runs through February 24th and is being held at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis Hotel. ISSCC
Many thought 2011 would be the year that all the time and money that Nvidia invested in R&D would finally pay off, and so far who could argue? A move from $8.88 per share in August to over $25 in a little over 6 months. Nvidia beat expectations with their latest earning announcement which you can read about Here.
The whole of IBM must be beaming this morning as Watson beat out former Jeopardy champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Watson racked up a two day total of $77,147 to Ken’s $24,000. Though Watson won’t be taking a vacation anytime soon with his earnings, instead IBM will be donating the winners purse ($1 Million) to charity. See more of … Read more
Autodesk has its eye on Scaleform offering $36 million in cash for company. Scaleform is an industry leader in flash-based UI tools and middleware for video games. Scaleform GFx has helped in the development of a host of video games across the PC and console platforms. They recently announced a Flash Player SDK used for UI’s and games that run … Read more
At first glance, MWC 2011 seems all about Android, but there’s more bubbling under the surface. MIPS is making its charge at the mobile world, Nvidia is finally getting to announce real wins for Tegra, and tablets are everywhere. The first buzz is around the new 7-inch HTC Flyer with, get this, a stylus.
LG helped kick off the festivities at the 2011 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona by unveiling a glasses-free 3D phone. The Optimus runs on Android 2.2 and has a 480×800 4.3-inch display and is capable of playing 3D movies thanks to a 5 megapixel dual-lens rear camera. Mom and Pop might not be ready for 3D but its coming none-the-less.
After over a year’s anticipation and teases of peaks at it, we finally got our hands on an AMD Fusion HPU, an 18W Zacate HPU on a Brazos platform. Our expectations were that it would knock the ball out of the park on graphics, see if it lived up to the hype. Read the review Here.
Parallel processing is the future. It is how we will increase our processing capability without having to double the clock speed of processors every other year. But parallel processing requires generating parallel processing programs. And writing parallel processing programs is difficult. These are the two common beliefs in our industry now and they’ve been used as an excuse. Last week … Read more
HP has charged into the tablet market with the webOS based TouchPad. The TouchPad has a 9.7-inch XGA capacitive, multitouch screen, 1024×768 resolution display, can multitask has front facing camera for video conferencing and can receive calls. The TouchPad will be bundled with Quick Office and be available this summer. TouchPad
From phones, to tablets to the PC to commercial Kiosks Touch technology first developed in the 80’s finally seems to be coming of age. Today HP announced its new line of TouchSmart PCs including the 9300 Elite PC which will be featured in various retail Kiosks. HP partner Barnes & Noble, has piloted several interactive kiosks as part of Barnes … Read more
