Apple Watch starts at $349, ships April 24
Apple first revealed its smart watch way back in September. We didn't get too many details at the time, ahem, but Apple revealed much more during its "Spring Forward" event in San Francisco today, including information on pricing, availability, and battery life.
Amusingly, CEO Tim Cook kicked off the discussion by confirming that yes, the Apple Watch can tell time. The ...
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Apple introduces new, ultra-thin MacBook
At Apple's press event today, the company returned its mid-line MacBook to its product lineup. And yes, it's the thinnest Apple notebook ever. But there's much more to the new wafer-thin MacBook than meets the eye.
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Mantle melded with PowerVR in real-time Vulkan demo
The wraps came off of Vulkan, the next-generation rebuild of OpenGL, at the Game Developers Conference last week. Although the graphics API is still in development, we learned quite a bit about it in a conference session devoted to the topic. That session started with a fundamental truth: Vulkan is based on AMD's Mantle API, only it's been adapted and extended to work properly with a range of different modern GPU architectures.
This adaptation work is particularly crucial for makers of mobile GPUs, since many mobile graphics cores simply work differently than big desktop chips like AMD's GCN-based Radeons. The folks at Imagination Technologies ship tons of PowerVR graphics cores in Apple's iOS devices, among other things, and Imagination's GPUs are tile-based deferred renderers, not immediate-mode renderers like most desktop GPUs. Tilers can be more efficient ...
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Star Citizen's new damage system is beautifully destructive
Plenty of games have realistic-looking graphics, but the visuals don't always hold up when damage is added to the equation. That doesn't appear to be a problem for Star Citizen, whose revamped damage system produces some pretty impressive results. Check this promo video showing one of the game's ships being picked apart by a bunch of different weapons:
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Intel's Xeon D brings Broadwell to cloud, web services
Although Intel's Xeon processors currently have an overwhelmingly dominant share of the market in servers and data-center applications, they stand to face competition from a host of new players in the coming months and years. Everyone from Applied Micro to Qualcomm has been making noise about providing ARM-based SoCs for servers, and most of them look to win business away from Intel by being more cost-effective and power-efficient—or by tailoring a product for a specific niche.
Intel has become very aware of this threat, and it has countered by releasing products like its Atom-based Avoton processors for low-cost and low-power ...
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Report: MediaTek SoCs could adopt Radeon graphics
MediaTek is one of the biggest SoC providers around. It currently offers a deep lineup of smartphone and tablets chips that pair ARM CPU cores with graphics based on either ARM's Mali tech or Imagination Technologies' PowerVR hardware. Now, the rumor mill suggests future MediaTek processors could incorporate Radeon graphics from AMD.
"Industry sources" cited by Fudzilla claim that AMD and MediaTek "have been working on an SoC graphics solution for a while." The site says the two companies are in "continuous contact," ...
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Synaptics wants to make mice, keyboards do more in games
This past week at GDC, Synaptics unveiled several touch- and fingerprint-sensing solutions that could make mice and keyboards more versatile—and potentially better for gamers.
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