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HTC to acquire S3 Graphics

HTC is set to purchase S3 Graphics from Via for $300M. With the acquisition HTC will obtain S3 Graphics’ portfolio of patents and pending applications however “HTC will provide a perpetual license of the S3 ...

The HP TouchPad hit the market over the holiday weekend

The HP TouchPad first announced in February is finally available. The new TouchPad entering the increasingly competitive table market features a revamped webOS and a 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon dual-core processor that drives the 9.7-inch ...

Ansys to buy Apache Design Solutions

Ansys today said it will acquire Apache Design Solutions, Inc. (ADS), a simulation software provider for low power solutions in the electronics industry. The deal is for $310 million in cash, and will be paid ...

WebGL Security – Kill it before it grows?

When Khronos launched the WebGL specifications with strong backing from Mozilla, Google, Apple and Opera we thought at least peace had come to the 3D web valley. We should have known better; seems that there ...

WebGL Security – Kill it before it grows?

When Khronos launched the WebGL specifications with strong backing from Mozilla, Google, Apple and Opera we thought at least peace had come to the 3D web valley. We should have known better; seems that there ...

Nvidia’s 2nd generation of Fermi mobile GPUs becoming available

GTX 580M, 570M are becoming available by OEMs, MSI is offering the 570M is their gaming notebook, while Alienware is also offering the 2nd Generation Fermi GPUs as an option. The GTX 580M and 570M ...

Supreme Court equates video games to free speech

By a 7-2 vote, the high court upheld a ruling by an appeals court that declared the law, which also imposes strict video-game labeling requirements, unconstitutional. The 2005 law which would have barred the sales ...

DMP goes public has impressive opening day

Japanese 3D IP provider Digital Media Professionals IPOed this week and rallied the first day moving from ¥2,400 to ¥3,050. According to CEO Tatsuo Yamamoto and many others this has been the most successful debut ...

AMD and Nvidia pull out of BAPCo

AMD resigned from BAPCo and asked that their name and logo be removed from marketing materials promoting SYSmark 2012. BAPCo’s benchmarks are based on various software packages focused on video creation and 3D Modeling. AMD’s ...

Major vendors plan to offer ARM-architecture notebooks

ARM’s transformation from a single to dual to quad-core has jump started its introduction into laptops. Asus has plans to launch a 13-inch ARM-based notebook adopting Nvidia’s processor with Android, with major vendors such as ...

Nokia debuts MeeGo N9 Smartphone

With Nokia due to ship its first Windows based phones later this year it unveiled the “unique all-screen smartphone” N9 based on MeeGo earlier today. The N9 is running MeeGo 1.2, has an 8MP camera ...