Sunday, January 30, 2011

IT News HeadLines (Rage3D) 29/01/2011


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Anon claim DDoS is 21st Century Civil Unrest and Demonstration - New Picket Line
In an open letter to the UK government following the levying of charges against anon participants in the DDoS attack supporting Wikileaks, the nameless faceless legion claim that DDoS attacks are 21st Century civil unrest demonstrations: Dear UK government, We are Anonymous. It has come to our...
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NVIDIA Researching Subpixel Reconstruction AntiAliasing - Answer to AMD's MLAA?
AMD have received lots of praise for their new implementation of the Morphological Anti-Aliasing technique, introduced in October with the AMD Radeon HD 6800 series and now due to to be available on the AMD ATI Radeon HD 5800, 5900 as well as the AMD Radeon HD 6800/6900 series in Catalyst...
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AMD Fusions APU's reduce Carbon Footprint from Manufacture through Use Lifecycle
The savings of using an AMD Fusion APU equipped product don't start when the consumer plugs it in - the processor itself is more environmentally friendly to make than previous generation AMD products: AMD today announced its AMD E-350 APU demonstrated a significant reduction in the overall product...
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AMD Boosts Application Development for AMD Fusion APU
AMD has released and update to it's AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing SDK, adding support for Fusion APUs, OpenCL 1.1 and Radeon HD 6990 GPUs and bumping the version to v2.3. AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing SDK v2.3, previously known as the ATI Stream SDK, empowers software developers to...
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Geforce GTX 590 to directly challenge Radeon HD 6990
According to Nordichardware, Nvidia isn't pulling any punches for it's dual GPU answer to Radeon HD 6990 by throwing 2 fully enabled GF110's at the problem. With 512 CUDA cores per chip and no mention of clock speeds, I'm guessing something had to get axed a bit to get all 1024 cores for this...
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AMD Brazos review, Anandtech style!
Low power consumption? Check! Performance to chomp on Atom+Ion? Check! Little-bitty form factor? Check! Brazos hits the right check marks for Anandtech and they give it high marks for the Radeon HD6310 that comes standard in the E-350. AMD has been curiously absent from the value netbook and...
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ASRock Considers Getting Out of Notebooks as Atom beatdown by AMD Fusion begins
Apparently unable to migrate to AMD Fusion APU's, ASRock is considering abandoning the market for Atom based Netbooks and low-end Notebooks altogether: ASRock is planning to gradually phase out from the notebook segment, while concentrating on its core motherboard and small-form-factor PC...
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AMD Asia Pacific Press Tech Day - Pictures of Fusion, HD 6990 and More
Hardwarezone.com has pictures from the recent AMD Press Tech Day for their Asia Pacific region. Included are some great shots of Antilles, the new AMD Radeon HD 6990 due this quarter to replace the AMD ATI Radeon HD 5970. Playing host to AMD's Fusion world tour was Singapore's Shangri-La hotel,...
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Rage3D Exclusive - Catalyst Application Profile 11.1
A brand new Catalyst Application Profile to go with the new drivers! This week's new Catalyst Application Profile, exclusively at Rage3D before anywhere else, includes updates for two titles: Image: http://www.rage3d.com/cap/amdcatalystsw.png * Need for Speed: Shift 2: Improves CrossFire...
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AMD Catalyst 11.2 To Add Official Support for MLAA on HD 5800 & 5900 Series
Yesterday's release of Catalyst 11.1a hotfix (http://www.rage3d.com/index.php?cat=75#newsid33973287) enabled AMD's new Anti-Aliasing feature, Morphological AA (MLAA) to be used on AMD ATI Radeon HD 5800 and 5900 series graphics cards. Image: http://www.rage3d.com/cap/amdcatalystsw.png With...
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