Silicon Valley chip expert David Kanter has hypothesized that PhysX diminishes CPU performance by “exclusively” using an outdated x87 instruction set.
“x87 has been deprecated for many years now, with [both] Intel and AMD recommending the much faster SSE instruction [set],” Kanter told TG Daily in an e-mailed statement.
“On modern CPUs, SSE [...]
Samsung has engineered a Blu-ray PC drive that has a BD-ROM read speed of 12x, a combo drive that is faster than any other competing product on the market.
The SH-B123 is an internal computer drive that can also read DVDs at 16x speed and CDs at up to 48x. It operates with a [...]
Tired of choosing between Nvidia and ATI? Well, now you can have the best of both worlds – on one kick-ass Asus motherboard powered by LucidLogix’s Hydra 200 SoC.
Yes, you read that correctly!
The ROG Crosshair IV Extreme allows gamers to mix and match up to three GPUs regardless of brand, series [...]
SanDisk has upgraded its SSD lineup by doubling capacity and significantly boosting performance.
According to company spokesperson Doron Myersdorf, the new G4 SSD is designed as a “drop-in” replacement for notebook hard disk drives, while the P4 will allow manufacturers to create “even thinner” devices.
“SanDisk SSD P4 and SanDisk SSD G4 offer [...]
Nvidia has enabled 3D Blu-ray playback on GeForce GPUs with the introduction of its Release 256 family of drivers.
“It’s pretty clear that Hollywood is going 3D. So, it makes sense that now 3D movies are making their way to Blu-ray disc thanks to Nvidia 3D Vision technology. [We are] the first to [...]
Seagate has debuted a 2.5-inch laptop PC harder drive that combines SSD-like achievement with the accommodation and amount credibility of acceptable HDDs.
According to aggregation agent Dave Mosley, the Momentus XT drive owes its accelerated capabilities to a affection dubbed “adaptive memory,” which optimizes achievement by affective frequently acclimated advice into [...]
The US CPSC puts customers of HP and Compaq notebooks on notice adding to 70,000 batteries previously recalled last May.
Lithium-Ion batteries used in Hewlett-Packard and Compaq notebook computers, and made in China, are being recalled because, since May 2009, HP has received 38 reports of overheating and rupturing batteries that resulted [...]
IBM has called Nvidia’s Tesla 20-series GPU to ability a new band of HPC iDataPlex servers.
According to Dave Turek of Big Blue, Nvidia’s Tesla GPU will accommodate arrangement “performance boosts” for a amount of applications, including activity exploration, science and banking services.
“Nvidia Tesla M2050 is a GPU Accretion bore chip into servers [...]
ViewSonic is going ultra-green with its new Mini, which reportedly consumes up to 90% less energy than traditional, power-hungry tower PCs.
The sleek VOT125 – which runs Windows 7 – also features an Intel ULV processor along with 2GB internal memory and a 250GB hard drive.
In addition, the system boasts four USB [...]
Seagate has confirmed plans to release a 3TB hard disk drive later this year. However, the 3TB drive will only be recognized by 64-bit operating systems, such as Windows 7, Vista and Linux.
“Not only that, but you may not even be able to see 2.1TB of a 3TB drive when using [...]
Sony is considering launching a tablet to rival Apple’s iPad, a senior vp confirmed to Bloomberg, although it wants to asses how the market adapts to this new product line first.
Mike Abary, senior vice president of Sony’s Information Technology Products unit, was speaking in San Francisco when he revealed the plans. “We [...]
An intrepid team of hackers has deployed openAOS dualboot to run Nokia’s Maemo on the Android-based Archos 5 Internet Tablet and Internet Media Tablet (IMT).
“For a happy, good, fun-time PROOF OF CONCEPT, here’s Maemo running on an Archos 5 IMT using openAOS dualboot,” Spz03737 explained in a YouTube video description.
“This has [...]
Playing catch-up with Intel, AMD has announced its first triple-core and quad-core laptop processors as part of a major brand overhaul.
The lineup includes two triple-core and three quad-core Phenom II chips running at between 1.6GHz and 2.3GHz and drawing between 25 and 45W.
There are also new single-core and dual-core low-voltage http://www.amd.com/us/products/notebook/platforms/home/2010- [...]
Digital Storm has debuted a new vertically cooled gaming rig. The PC – dubbed Black|OPS Assassin – is reportedly capable of minimizing heat buildup from a three-way SLI configuration of Nvidia’s GTX 480s with minimal fan noise.
According to Digital Storm spokesperson Rajeev Kuruppu, the Assassin is the company’s latest system to [...]
Super-fast wireless video could get a touch more straightforward, with the launch of a new chipset from SiBeam which combines both the WirelessHD and WiGig specifications.
SiBeam has been shipping 60GHz chipsets based on the WirelessHD standard since 2008, but its new SB8110 WirelessHD/WiGig RF transceiver and associated SK8100 Development Kit [...]
ARM is currently the undisputed heavyweight champion of the global mobile marketplace. However, the company has recently accelerated development of low-powered server chips in response to what it describes as “customer demand.”
“We’ve been doing some testing over the past year or so,” ARM marketing chief Ian Drew told ZDNet UK.
“People [...]
An ARM spokesperson has blamed Flash and the abrupt emergence of tablets for the lack of smartbooks in the mobile marketplace.
“We thought [smartbooks] would be launched by now, but they’re not. I think one reason is to do with software maturity. We’ve seen things like Adobe slip — we’d originally scheduled for [...]
