Google's ANGLE project will make WebGL more accessible
While working away on implementing WebGL support into the Chrome browser, Google has through about how to ensure that the open standard for hardware-accelerated online 3D graphics is available to as many people as possible. After some brainstorming the internet titan has come up with Almost Native Graphics Layer Engine or ANGLE for short, an open initiative to take WebGL's subset of the OpenGL ES 2.0 API and 'translate' it into calls that are supported by the DirectX 9.0c API. The idea here is that, while Linux and Macs have OpenGL as their primary API, and thus will work easily with WebGL, Windows PC rely mostly on DirectX/Direct3D and because of that they may not have the required OpenGL drivers installed (but not likely). Not having proper OpenGL support is a problem if you need/want to run WebGL and ANGLE aims to offer a solution for that situation.
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Fermi specifications finally revealed
GeForce GTX 470 and 480 specification have finally been revealed by Nvidia. As reported, the GeForce GTX 470 is set to have a recommended price tag of $349 and feature 448 CUDA Cores, a 320-bit memory interface, a GPU clock of 607 MHz, a shader frequency of 1215 MHz and 1280MB of GDDR5 memory at 1674 MHz (effectively 3348 MHz). The card's TDP is 225 W.
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Gigabyte prepares mini-ITX H55 board with USB 3.0
Gigabyte Technology has just revealed its plans to introduce pretty feature-rich mini-ITX motherboards based on Intel's H55 chipset. Known as H55N-USB3, the upcoming board has support for LGA 1156 processors, two DDR3 memory slots, four SATA ports, a PCI-Express x16 slot for more serious graphics, and, as its name suggests, USB 3.0 connectors, likely powered by NEC's famous controller.
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MSI introducess business laptop with Core i5
MSI announced the addition of its latest business notebook, the 15.6-inch P600. It runs on an unspecified Intel Core i5 processor and so should be relatively fast for the class. As a professional system, it gets a fingerprint reader for security. Its most notable feature its its eight-cell battery, which provides up to eight hours but keeps the PC relatively light at 2.4 kg.
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