Latest AMD OpenCL drivers tease new high-end Radeons
Yesterday, AMD released its first batch of fully OpenCL-compliant drivers alongside a new beta of its ATI Stream v2.0 developer toolkit. The drivers work with existing Radeon HD 4000- and 5000-series graphics cards, but as the guys at Fudzilla discovered, they also support some still-unreleased products. Fudzilla writes that...
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Next-gen Nintendo DS could be Tegra-powered
Perhaps AMD's graphics technology will have a place in the next Xbox, as we heard yesterday. What about Nvidia, though? According to PC Perspective, evidence points to Nintendo using the rival firm's Tegra system-on-a-chip in its next-gen DS handheld console. The site quotes two separate reports: one from
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Intel posts 'strongest second-to-third-quarter growth in over 30 years'
Looks like Intel wasn't kidding when it raised its revenue forecast for last quarter—the actual results surpass even the revised expectations. The chip maker has posted third-quarter revenue of $9.4 billion with $1.9 billion of net income and a 58% gross margin, marking its "strongest second-to-third-quarter growth in...
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New AMD Stream SDK beta is fully OpenCL compliant
OpenCL developers, rejoice. AMD has released a new beta of its ATI Stream SDK v2.0 developer toolkit, this time bringing complete support for the new GPU-computing application programming interface. The Khronos Group has blessed the release as "fully compliant" with the OpenCL 1.0 specification. Best of all, this toolkit is...
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World of Goo sale lets customers name their price
You can always count on indie game developers to price and distribute their creations inventively. This time, Shacknews writes that 2D Boy is letting folks purchase World of Goo for as much as they want to commemorate the casual puzzle game's first birthday. The promotion is running until October 16...
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AMD may have snatched next Xbox deal
Could the Xbox 360's successor feature a Radeon-derived graphics chip? Quite possibly, judging from a Fudzilla report that quotes "industry sources" as saying Microsoft has picked AMD to develop its next-gen console GPU. The existing Xbox 360 already has AMD (or, rather, ATI) graphics inside: Xenos, a custom GPU...
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Firefox 3.6 includes page orientation code
Next time you tilt your laptop, the web page on your screen might just move accordingly. Well, maybe not, but Mozilla developers will definitely let web developers access laptop orientation information in the upcoming Firefox 3.6 release. According to a blog post by Mozilla evangelist Christopher Blizzard, the simple orientation...
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Radeon HD 5750, 5770 cards go up for sale
After its launch two weeks ago, the Radeon HD 5850 took a little while to appear in online listings, and stocks depleted quickly. Our first search for available 5850s bore no fruit, and the situation hadn't improved much when we looked again last week. So far, things seem...
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