IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 23/09/2010

Programming gurus debate future of graphics hardware
At the Game Developers Conference earlier this year, SemiAccurate's Charlie Demerjian sat down with Epic programming guru Tim Sweeney and Codeplay's Andrew Richards to discuss the future of graphics hardware. The debate started with differing opinions on whether Larrabee, the Intel desktop GPU turned HPC parallel processor, would...
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IE Platform Architect defects to Google
Here's a bit of browser war gossip for you. Right after Microsoft gloated about seeing two million people download the Internet Explorer 9 beta in just two days, the company's IE Platform Architect announced that he was departing Microsoft to take on a fancy new position... at Google. Chris...
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New AMD processors start showing up at Newegg
You know those desktop processors AMD announced on Monday? They're already available; at least, some of them are. Newegg currently stocks all of the newly introduced Phenom IIs and the quickest two Athlon II processors, but prices are a little bit higher than what AMD quoted—even though the chipmaker...
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Checkers Day Shortbread
Eight is Enough X-bit labs: Intel reportedly slashed prices on Atom and Core processors and Intel launches software research program for Many-Core Architectures Ars Technica on Intel's upgradable processor: Good sense or utter catastrophe? AMD: Customers are preferring chips with higher core count Fudzilla reports Zacate Fusion
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DisplaySearch: 3D laptops aren't selling well
Stereoscopic 3D seems to be the latest industry buzzword, with everyone from movie studios to Nvidia hyping up the technology as the next frontier in digital entertainment. Are consumers really buying it? At least when it comes to laptops, DisplaySearch figures quoted by ComputerWorld hint at a general lack...
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RIM could show a BlackBerry slate next week
The iPad and the oncoming slew of Android slates might be grabbing all the headlines, but other contestants are gearing up to participate in the showdown, as well. Quoting anonymous sources, the Wall Street Journal reports that BlackBerry maker RIM may unveil a slate device "as early as next...
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Poll: Do you play FPS games on consoles or the PC?
In this week's installment of Executives Say the Darndest Things, Xbox Kinect creator Kudo Tsunoda surprisingly claimed that "hardly anyone plays first person shooters on the PC anymore." Say what? I could understand if Tsunoda was talking about games in general or even about other genres, but...
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Expect a new Tegra system-on-chip every year
At Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference yesterday, company CEO Jen-Hsun Huang revealed an aggressive development schedule for next-generation Tegra system-on-chips. Tegra 3 is "almost done," according to Engadget, and work on its successor is already under way. Huang also promised a new Tegra design "every single year" and...
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Nine-minute trailer shows BioShock Infinite gameplay
Irrational Games may have only unveiled BioShock Infinite a little over a month ago, but it's already shown a somewhat lengthy gameplay session. The trailer has landed at Shacknews and some other sites, but you can watch it over on YouTube, as well—which conveniently lets us embed it...
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