by Slobodan Simic, 03 June 2009
In addition to a lot of product announcements during this week, AMD has also announced a new addition to the ATI Theater lineup, the ATI Theater HD 750 PC TV chip. This little baby will offer HDTV for desktop and notebook PC systems and supports NTSC, ATSC, DVB-T, Clear-QAM, digital TV and PAL/SECAM, FM and DVB-T radio. (In other words, it supports everything out there.sub.ed.) It can be used for capturing and converting recorded TV content to popular formats such as H.264, AVI, MPEG, DviX, WMV and MPEG4. It also supports ATI's Stream when paired up with an ATI Radeon Stream capable card.
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Intel VP deems Ion is overkill
Computex 09 And backhandedly praises ARM
By Sylvie Barak, 3 June 2009
MOOLY EDEN, Intel vice president and general manager of its mobile platforms group, has told the INQ that Nvidia's Ion platform for netbooks is "overkill" and unnecessary. Speaking at a Q&A session after an Intel keynote, Eden said he believed in balancing CPU and GPU performance, but argued that Intel's upcoming Pinetrail platform with the firm's next generation Atom processor will have a stronger graphics core, rendering the Ion pointless, not to mention expensive. Eden also refuted claims that Intel had told Microsoft to limit use of the Windows 7 Starter variant to netbooks with screensizes of 10.1 inches and below, saying "we are not telling Microsoft what to do and even if we did they wouldn't listen."
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By Sylvie Barak, 3 June 2009
MOOLY EDEN, Intel vice president and general manager of its mobile platforms group, has told the INQ that Nvidia's Ion platform for netbooks is "overkill" and unnecessary. Speaking at a Q&A session after an Intel keynote, Eden said he believed in balancing CPU and GPU performance, but argued that Intel's upcoming Pinetrail platform with the firm's next generation Atom processor will have a stronger graphics core, rendering the Ion pointless, not to mention expensive. Eden also refuted claims that Intel had told Microsoft to limit use of the Windows 7 Starter variant to netbooks with screensizes of 10.1 inches and below, saying "we are not telling Microsoft what to do and even if we did they wouldn't listen."
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AMD Demos, Will Ship DirectX 11 Graphics in 2009
by Mark Hachman 06.03.09
Advanced Micro Devices demonstrated what it called the first DirectX 11-compatible graphics chip at Computex, showing support for features like tesselation. The chip will debut before the end of 2009, AMD said. AMD did not reveal the name of the new chip, or its exact ship date. Microsoft revealed Direct3D 11 in mid-2008, and the API will reportedly be publicly released in July 2009. Its capabilities will only be available to Windows Vista and Windows 7, as well as future Windows operating systems. DirectX 11 is notable for both hardware tessellation and a new compute shader, both explained in greater detail in an ExtremeTech overview. The compute shader will support so-called GP-GPU acceleration, a technique to use the graphics processor as a form of general-purpose compute engine. AMD calls this technology its Stream technology; at Computex, AMD demonstrated drag-and-drop transcoding using ATI Stream technology, where an HD media file was encoded in 82 seconds, versus an encoding time of 160 seconds without ATI Stream acceleration.
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Advanced Micro Devices demonstrated what it called the first DirectX 11-compatible graphics chip at Computex, showing support for features like tesselation. The chip will debut before the end of 2009, AMD said. AMD did not reveal the name of the new chip, or its exact ship date. Microsoft revealed Direct3D 11 in mid-2008, and the API will reportedly be publicly released in July 2009. Its capabilities will only be available to Windows Vista and Windows 7, as well as future Windows operating systems. DirectX 11 is notable for both hardware tessellation and a new compute shader, both explained in greater detail in an ExtremeTech overview. The compute shader will support so-called GP-GPU acceleration, a technique to use the graphics processor as a form of general-purpose compute engine. AMD calls this technology its Stream technology; at Computex, AMD demonstrated drag-and-drop transcoding using ATI Stream technology, where an HD media file was encoded in 82 seconds, versus an encoding time of 160 seconds without ATI Stream acceleration.
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Future Controller Wars: Natal vs PS3
By Ian Paul Jun 3, 2009
It's official: Motion control sensors are the future of gaming. Microsoft wowed the world this week at E3, with a demonstration of Project Natal, a full-body motion control system for the Xbox 360. Not to be outdone, just one day later at E3, Sony demonstrated its own next-generation motion controller for the PlayStation 3. Sony's controller is a wireless, microphone-shaped device with several buttons and a glowing sphere on the top. The motion controller's sphere is tracked by the PS3's PlayStation Eye camera, and, based on Sony's demo, the controller looks like it can be used in almost any gaming genre.
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It's official: Motion control sensors are the future of gaming. Microsoft wowed the world this week at E3, with a demonstration of Project Natal, a full-body motion control system for the Xbox 360. Not to be outdone, just one day later at E3, Sony demonstrated its own next-generation motion controller for the PlayStation 3. Sony's controller is a wireless, microphone-shaped device with several buttons and a glowing sphere on the top. The motion controller's sphere is tracked by the PS3's PlayStation Eye camera, and, based on Sony's demo, the controller looks like it can be used in almost any gaming genre.
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