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Intel Announces Community-Driven Computer Animation Project

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Intel Corporation announced a collaborative animation project to produce a computer-generated animated short film for theatrical release. The Mass Animation Project, presented by Intel, will be open to established and aspiring animators. Intel is sponsoring the development and promotion of a Facebook Page where animators will be able access a collaboration ...

NVIDIA Amps Up GeForce Lineup With Immediate Availability Of Three New GPUs

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

NVIDIA Corporation, the world leader in visual computing technologies, today announced the immediate availability of three new desktop GeForce 9 Series graphics processing units (GPUs) that bring support for NVIDIA PhysX technology and CUDA general-purpose parallel computing to mainstream PC computing markets.

Microsoft DirectX 11 Details Emerge

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Microsoft has released a handful of details about DirectX 11, the latest version of the company's API. Full support (including all DX11 hardware features) on Windows Vista as well as future versions of Windows Compatibility with DirectX 10 and 10.1 hardware, as well as support for new DirectX 11 hardware New compute shader ...

IPv6 Protection by OSes Inadequate, Potential Vulnerabilities Surface

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Rudimentary software-level protection for IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6), a network protocol which comes pre-installed with several operating systems (OS) but poorly implemented in the real-world makes it a protocol ignored by security providers, and effectively a soft-target for hackers to compromise a system. Several OSes including Linux 2.6 upwards, Windows ...

CPU Errata Turn Security Vulnerabilities

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Security vulnerabilities have plagued the computing world ever since computing became a significant advance of mankind. As of today, the plethora of security software we use that gobble money, system resources and network bandwidth to keep our computers and networks safe, have done a good job and it's relatively 'peaceful' ...

PhysX on Radeon ‘Saga’: What we Missed

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

Amidst this whole 'nGOHQ' saga, and us getting astonished at the way things turned out, here's what we missed: NVIDIA is in talks with AMD over a possible technology-transfer agreement over PhysX, say industry sources in Hong Kong. In a not-so-recent article by HKEPC, it is said:

ATI Preparing ‘Super RV770′ to Challenge GeForce GTX 200 Series

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

The RV770 is perhaps the best thing that happened to AMD in a long while. But more than AMD, it's perhaps the best thing that happened to us, the consumers. But general product launches seem to be just the tip of the ice-berg. The new PCB's designed by ATI for ...

OCZ Expands its Diverse Flash Lineup with the new Ultra-Portable Spyder USB Drive

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

OCZ Technology Group today announced the latest addition to its award-winning lineup of performance flash drives with the all-new Spyder, first debuted at Computex 2008. Undertaking exciting new endeavors in the flash memory market, OCZ is all about affordable, portable, and innovative style with this super-sleek and cap-less design that ...

Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processor Family Expands with Five New Low-Power Options

Monday, May 12th, 2008

AMD today introduced the industry's first energy-efficient x86 server processors with four processing cores and an integrated memory controller all in a low 55-watt ACP thermal envelope. Blade and rack systems based on five new low-power Quad-Core AMD Opteron HE (Highly Efficient) processors are now widely available from global OEMs ...

AMD Roadmap Shows 6-core and 12-core Opteron Processors

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

In a briefing today AMD disclosed a conservative road map for 45nm server processors using six and twelve cores that will gradually start to ship starting from Q1 2009. The new processors will be manufactured in a 45 nm process that will be introduced with the Shanghai quad-core later this ...