AMD announces Open Physics Initiative
Following in the wake of several controversies regarding Nvidia's closed proprietary physics engine, PhysX, AMD have officially announced an initiative to expand the use of game physics using the open source Bullet Physics engine.
Nvidia have used PhysX as an marketing tool since 2008, by making it proprietary. Basically if you want PhysX - buy an Nvidia GPU. As a result, never gained widespread acceptance by game developers, only appearing in a handful of games. Nvidia's recent decision to disable PhysX when a Nvidia GPU was used in association with a ATI Radeon GPU has further angered developers and gamers alike, who went out and bought a mainstream Nvidia GPU just for PhysX. Developers have talked about the need for an open source physics engine that can be used on any GPU - leading to widespread adoption of game physics.
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Intel demonstrates concept notebook with 4 displays
Intel showed off an interesting concept notebook - with three small touchscreen sub-displays right above the keyboard, in addition to the main display.
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Nvidia to demonstrate next-gen DX11 GPU today
Fudzilla reports that Nvidia will demonstrate its next-gen DX11 GPU, known as GT300, Fermi and/or GF100, at a keynote event today.
Nvidia have been very silent about its next-gen products thus far, many having doubted the existence of such a product. Finally, after long last, CEO Jen-Hsun Huang will demonstrate and speak about their next-gen product, and attempt to put all doubts and rumours to rest (Though, yield issue rumours will probably still circulate). As expected, Nvidia is heading towards shader compute processing rather than games - though the GPU is expected to perform very well in DX/OGL applications as well. We will closely follow any information that may be available following the demonstration.
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Samsung introduced 12-megapixel SCH-W880 digital camera with AMOLED
Today, Samsung Korea has announced their new AMOLED 12-megapixel digital camera (model: SCH-W880). It features 3.3-inch WVGA (800 x 480) AMOLED full touchscreen display, 3x optical and 2x digital zoom, and can record 720p high definition video at 30fps.
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(CNET Asia) Sharp's latest LED TVs come with affordable price tags
LED edge-lit TVs offer superb image quality, but the downside is they aren't exactly cheap. But it looks like Sharp has plans to offer an affordable HDTV, which comes in the form of Aquos LC-40LB700M, without compromising on features and performance. It is scheduled to be available in late October or early November at S$2,799 which is lower than most LED TVs of similar size. The Sharp Aquos LC-40LE700M (S$2,299) is currently retailing in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam.
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MP3 Player Volume Restrictions On The Way
MP3 players are among the most popular consumer electronics products on the market today as almost every person you see on the streets or trains will be listening to one. Users who enjoy their music at an ear-shredding 125 decibels will be disappointed to learn that the European Union will be rolling out new legislation to cut the default maximum volume on MP3 players to no louder than 80 decibels by the end of the year. So what does 80 or 125 decibels mean to a layman?
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ATI Radeon HD 5850 arrives, availability update
Exactly a week after the Radeon HD 5870, little sibling HD 5850 is here. The HD 5850 is based on the same Cypress GPU - with 2 SIMD units disabled from the 5870 - leaving 1440 SP / 72 TMU. Furthermore, both core and memory have been downclocked to 720 / 1000 from 850 / 1200, respectively.
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Dell's latest Latitude Z comes with wireless charging
Dell has launched their new Latitude Z which claims to be the world's lightest 16-inch laptop and first to feature wireless docking, inductive charging. Yes, you heard right. This literally means you can charge the laptop by placing it on a special notebook stand without having to connect the power adapter or cable.
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Galaxy GTX260+ Razor Edition is the World's First Single Slot GTX 260+
Galaxy unveils the world's first single slot GeForce GTX260+ graphics card Galaxy GeForce GTX 260+ Razor Edition. It is using a in-house designed cooler that utilizes a technology called Vapor Chamber. At only 14mm thick, Galaxy GeForce GTX 260+ Razor Edition is the slimmest GeForce GTX 260+ in the world. The card features a 576 MHz core, 999 MHz memory and 1242 MHz Shader clock and GPU is specially picked and tuned by Galaxy to further reduce power consumption. According to our sources, this card will be priced some US$15-20 higher than a normal GTX 260+ card.
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Microsoft anti-virus is now free to download
In June, Microsoft announced the launch of their free beta PC security service - the Microsoft Security Essentials (formerly codenamed Morro). Well, good news is that the real-time anti-malware service is now free for download.
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