Tuesday, February 15, 2011

IT News HeadLines (Rage3D) 14/02/2011



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Why You Should Love APUs This Valentine's Day
Leslie Sobon, AMD's Corporate Vice President, product and outbound marketing, has posted a fun blog about why you should love AMD's Accelerated Processing Unit this Valentines Day: Image: http://blogs.amd.com/home/files/2011/02/IHEARAPU-237x70.png It began at CES in Las Vegas, then to Taipei and...
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Reverse Engineering PowerVR (SGX) Is Now A High Priority
This refers to the latest PowerVR IP based on SGX series and other modern architectures. The Free Software Foundation has now determined that reverse-engineering the PowerVR Linux drivers in order to create a free software driver capable of 3D hardware acceleration is a high priority action item....
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How Old ATI GPUs Can Be Faster On Open Drivers
Here's some fruits of AMD's labor. A few days ago when publishing the results of benchmarking a lot of graphics cards on their Gallium3D drivers (about a dozen graphics cards) this left a number of people surprised. A number of these results from the open-source Gallium3D drivers illustrated the...
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Sony "PlayStation Phone" is the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play
This news post is to clarify for the readers of Rage3D that the Playstation Phone is otherwise known as the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play and it comes in three different models that we know of. The Neo, the Arc, and the Pro. Here is some direct links to some hands-on previews of each individual model...
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The Source Engine On Postal III Is Still Coming To Linux
Linux gaming might not be as dead as you think. While it was announced previously by the Running With Scissors Game company that Postal III would be released for Linux like had been done with previous Postal games, there has been some speculation in recent months that Postal III would not make it...
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Intel's slipup not so beneficial for AMD
While it may seem like common sense that AMD would pickup some slack from Intel's chipset blunder, its not as clear cut as that. Since Intel announced its massive chipset recall, notebook manufacturers have put all orders on hold. This affects most of Nvidia and ATI graphics parts that were...
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Battle of the tiny chips!
Dynamite comes in small packages, or so they tell us. Liliputing takes a gander at the lower power offerings from AMD and Intel and put them under "Gulliver's microscope" to watch the cage match. The AMD C-50 is for all intents and purposes AMDÂ’s answer to the Intel Atom. ItÂ’s a 1 GHz dual core...
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Phenom II X6 1100 BE reviewed
The Phenom II X6 1100 Black Edition gets the spot light in this review over at Tech Radar. Coming in significantly cheaper then Intel hexacore alternatives, AMD is still driving more cores to the masses. For the most part, the AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition is not a new processor. It's...
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A Closer Look at The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Improving on Oblivion. Many might associate Bethesda Game Studios with the irradiated wastes of Fallout, but slightly older video game fans know the company established itself on swords-and-sorcery fantasy. Without the success of The Elder Scrolls role-playing series, there likely would be no...
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AMD, Nvidia gained on Intel in graphics in Q4
AMD is making some gains even though it lost a lot of its executives. Strange times. SAN FRANCISCO—Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) each gained market share in graphics chips during the fourth quarter of 2010 at Intel Corp.'s expense, according to Jon Peddie Research (JPR)....
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The death of Guitar Hero
Are some of you glad or sad that Activision has put an end to the Guitar Hero division? The Life and Death of Guitar Hero A visual history of your cluttered closet. (please visit the source link for the visual history)... Source: IGN (http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/114/1149263p1.html)
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