From DailyTech: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) announced a pair of sporty upcoming x86-based, 28 nanometer (nm) processors that will front its mobile processing efforts. It also announced a new HTPC-geared CPU+GPU combo chip that's sure to please budget shoppers. Officially these chips won't...
From X-bit Labs: Despite of being extremely more capable than current-generation game consoles, Microsoft Xbox One and Sony PlayStation 4 will not support playback of Blu-ray 3D discs at launch. While this may disappoint some technology enthusiasts that are early adopters of most innovations, this...
From EETimes: Advanced Micro Devices announced two new 28nm mobile x86 processors using a new ARM-based security block, including a 2W tablet SoC. The chips, shipping before July, will double the performance/watt of the company's prior notebook and tablet offerings, it said.
Both chips pack two to...
From PC World: Nvidia has made improvements to its underlying software tools to make it easier to write programs for faster execution across CPUs and graphics processors.
The company on Thursday announced CUDA 6, which will make programming easier for supercomputers, servers, PCs and, to a lesser...
From CNET News.com: Windows Phone continues to eke out gains in a landscape dominated by Android and iOS.
During the third quarter, Microsoft's mobile OS share rose to 3.6 percent globally from 2.3 percent in the year-ago quarter, Gartner said in a report on Thursday. Shipments grew to 8.9 million...
From DailyTech: Motorola is announcing a new low-cost phone as its high-end Moto X failed to stir up blockbuster sales numbers.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Motorola officially unveiled the new "Moto G" today at an event in Brazil. However, the new device leaked over the weekend when...
Back in the days, I used to visit my cousin in Toronto every year. Actually, I still do, but that is another story. We used to hang out in the den of his house, where he would sit in front of his desktop computer, and I would work away on my laptop. Occasionally, as guys goes, we would hurl random insults at each other. The conversation will end when the epitome of all insults are made. "Yeah, well, your keyboard is loud," we used to say, and it...
From EETimes: The former director of Apple's Siri is taking Samsung's version of the artificial intelligence system to the next level. Luc Julia, vice president and innovation fellow at Samsung's Open Innovation Center in Menlo Park, Calif., demonstrated SAMI (Samsung Architecture for Multimodal...
From InfoWorld: Oracle has joined the industry consortium HSA Foundation, which is developing standards to make it easier for programmers to take advantage of GPUs and other processor types for faster code execution.
The Heterogeneous System Architecture Foundation is developing a set of open...
From DailyTech: For the masses waiting on their oft laggard Android carrier and OEM to update their device to the latest and greatest version of Google Inc.'s (GOOG) operating system (which is currently Android 4.4 "KitKat") CyanogenMod (aka "CM") has offered an escape route.
While the reach of...
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