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Adobe launches beta Molehill 3D API and Flash Player 11

Adobe’s Molehill API uses the GPU allowing developers to achieve higher performance in 3D graphics. Now developers can use shaders for dynamic lighting, particle systems, complex materials, post-effects and skeletal animation with little to no ...

JPR Announces 2011 International PC Gaming Hardware Estimates

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Jon Peddie Research Announces 2011 International PC Gaming Hardware Estimates

Jon Peddie Research estimates 2011 expenditures on PC gaming hardware are set to jump to over $22 billion globally, with a 27% gain in 2011 across the three segmentations of the market; Mainstream, Performance, and Enthusiast.

Radeon graphics for the new MacBook Pro

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 ...

The International Solid-State Circuits Conference is taking place this week

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 ...

Nvidia soars after earnings report

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 ...

“I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords.”

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 ...

Autodesk makes play for leading UI firm

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 ...

Shifting territory at Mobile World Congress

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, ...

Happy Valentines Day and Happy first day the Mobile World Congress 2011

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 ...

JPR reviews AMD’s Ontario Fusion

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 ...

“Everybody On” HP intruduces new webOS family

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 ...