Thursday, April 15, 2010

IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 15/04/2010



Intel teases next embedded Atom
At the Spring Intel Developer Forum in Beijing, China earlier today, Intel took a moment to tease an upcoming Atom system-on-a-chip designed specifically for embedded applications. Most notably, the Tunnel Creek SoC features on-chip PCI Express connectivity intended to help minimize the cost and footprint of embedded designs. Tunnel Creek...
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Free, standalone CryEngine 3 dev platform planned
Late last year, Epic Games released a toolkit allowing developers to make standalone games based on Unreal Engine 3. According to a story by Develop, Crytek is about to follow in those footsteps. Develop says Crytek intends to release a "standalone free engine" that will be "up to speed"...
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Pan American Day Shortbread
Pan American Day Prices of semiconductor components to be raised again in 2Q10, says IC channels TSMC announces move to 20nm process DigiTimes reports Foxconn sees close to 30% growth in March revenues and Asus reveals more spin-off details and Intel unveils more details about new...
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Intel profits climbed to $2.4 billion last quarter
Call the year's first calendar quarter "seasonally down" all you wish, Intel still managed to post higher profits in Q1 2010 than in the final quarter of 2009. The company racked up net income of $2.4 billion on revenue of $10.3 billion in Q1, giving it a small...
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Nvidia releases WHQL-certified OpenGL 4.0 driver
Hot on AMD's heels, Nvidia has released an OpenGL 4.0 driver for its freshly launched (and still hard-to-find) GeForce GTX 400-series graphics cards. Rather than being a "preview driver" like AMD's, this release comes with certification from Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Labs. Nvidia claims the drivers support OpenGL 4.0...
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GeForce GTX 400-series GPUs scarce after retail launch
Last month, Nvidia promised the world that its new GeForce GTX 400-series graphics cards would hit stores on April 12. That date has come and gone, but after perusing the listings of several online retailers in the U.S. and Canada, we get the feeling Nvidia isn't quite meeting demand. We...
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Report: Eric Schmidt teases Google slate
What a surprise: Google's rivalry with Apple will apparently extend to slate devices—and we're not just talking about third-party iPad rivals based on the Android platform. According to the New York Times' Bits blog, Google CEO Eric Schmidt shared details about an upcoming Google slate with friends "at a...
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