By David Colker September 24, 2009
At long last, details about a super-secret computer tablet have emerged, complete with pictures and even a video showing how it works. But it's not the long-awaited tablet that Apple Inc. has been rumored to be developing. This prototype reportedly comes from deep inside Apple's archrival, Microsoft Corp., where its development has supposedly been so blanketed in secrecy that many high-ranking company executives didn't know it existed. If it's real, that is. The device, code-named Courier, showed up on the popular technology blog Gizmodo.com under the headline "First Details of Microsoft's Secret Tablet." Microsoft neither confirmed nor denied its existence. "We do not comment on unreleased products," company spokesman Doug Free said. He wouldn't even say whether Microsoft was working on a tablet, which is a type of computer on which information can be input by touching fingers and/or a stylus directly to the screen.
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
AMD Unveils Powerful New Graphics Cards
by Chloe Albanesius 09.23.09
AMD on Wednesday unveiled the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series, graphics cards that boast up to 2.72 teraflops of computer power. The series will initially debut with two cards: the ATI Radeon HD 5870 and the ATI Radeon HD 5850, both of which include 1 G-byte of graphics double data rate version 5 (GDDR5) memory and support for OpenCL. This type of computing power has prompted AMD to refer to the 5800 series as the "most powerful processor ever created," though AMD acknowledges that teraflops are "not necessarily an indicator of leading performance in every application." The ATI Radeon HD 5800 is the first to support Microsoft DirectX 11, the new gaming and compute standard that will ship with Windows 7. It will also support DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 10.1, and OpenGL titles in single card configurations or multi-card configurations using ATI CrossFireX technology.
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AMD on Wednesday unveiled the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series, graphics cards that boast up to 2.72 teraflops of computer power. The series will initially debut with two cards: the ATI Radeon HD 5870 and the ATI Radeon HD 5850, both of which include 1 G-byte of graphics double data rate version 5 (GDDR5) memory and support for OpenCL. This type of computing power has prompted AMD to refer to the 5800 series as the "most powerful processor ever created," though AMD acknowledges that teraflops are "not necessarily an indicator of leading performance in every application." The ATI Radeon HD 5800 is the first to support Microsoft DirectX 11, the new gaming and compute standard that will ship with Windows 7. It will also support DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 10.1, and OpenGL titles in single card configurations or multi-card configurations using ATI CrossFireX technology.
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Intel Gives First Demo Of Larrabee Graphics Processor
By Antone Gonsalves September 23, 2009
Intel on Monday conducted the first demonstration of its long-awaited Larrabee graphics processor, which will launch the chip maker into competition with Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia in the high-end graphics market. Sean Maloney, chief sales and marketing officer for Intel, showed off a working Larrabee at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. The graphics processor was used to render a game-like environment built on ray tracing, a computing-intensive technique for generating 3D graphics. The technique is particularly useful in rendering realistic shadows and reflections. Larrabee was used in conjunction with Gulftown, codename for a six-core processor scheduled for release next year. The chip is based on Westmere, codename for a 32-nanometer variant of Intel's current 45-nm Nehalem microarchitecture. The first Westmere-based chip is scheduled to ship in the fourth quarter of this year.
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Intel on Monday conducted the first demonstration of its long-awaited Larrabee graphics processor, which will launch the chip maker into competition with Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia in the high-end graphics market. Sean Maloney, chief sales and marketing officer for Intel, showed off a working Larrabee at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. The graphics processor was used to render a game-like environment built on ray tracing, a computing-intensive technique for generating 3D graphics. The technique is particularly useful in rendering realistic shadows and reflections. Larrabee was used in conjunction with Gulftown, codename for a six-core processor scheduled for release next year. The chip is based on Westmere, codename for a 32-nanometer variant of Intel's current 45-nm Nehalem microarchitecture. The first Westmere-based chip is scheduled to ship in the fourth quarter of this year.
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AMD confirms Hexa-core 'Thuban' processor
by James Delahunty 23 September 2009
AMD has confirmed to Maximum PC that it will release a Hexa-core (6 cores) processor (codename Thuban) next year that will be backwards compatible with AM3 and AM2+ socket-equipped motherboards. The confirmation comes after numerous rumors suggested that the company had a new 6-core chip in the works. "We are all about platform longevity and long-lived upgrade paths," an AMD spokesman said. The comment is likely a jab at Intel for offering three different incompatible socket infrastructures currently for Desktop computers. The "Thuban" chip is expected to be marketed as the Phenom II X6, and is derived from the Opteron chip that surfaced earlier in the summer. It will feature all six cores on single 45nm die.
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AMD has confirmed to Maximum PC that it will release a Hexa-core (6 cores) processor (codename Thuban) next year that will be backwards compatible with AM3 and AM2+ socket-equipped motherboards. The confirmation comes after numerous rumors suggested that the company had a new 6-core chip in the works. "We are all about platform longevity and long-lived upgrade paths," an AMD spokesman said. The comment is likely a jab at Intel for offering three different incompatible socket infrastructures currently for Desktop computers. The "Thuban" chip is expected to be marketed as the Phenom II X6, and is derived from the Opteron chip that surfaced earlier in the summer. It will feature all six cores on single 45nm die.
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