The Radeon 7970 is packing some serious firsts: a brand new core design, and the world’s first GPU using cool, efficient 28 nm transistors. But it’s also designed, of course, to be fast as hell. Gamers, you’re gonna want one. More »
The magic of the muppets is that they’re ‘real’, or as real as puppetry gets. Still, even when the Muppets could have easily gone CGI, they stuck to their roots. That doesn’t mean everything in the new Muppets movie was old school though. Even muppets need the magic of the movies. More »
Chip company ARM has announced its latest processor evolution, in the form of its Mali-T658 GPU. ARM says this’ll provide “desktop-class performance” with “10 times” the power of the 400 series found in the Galaxy S II. More »
Sure, today’s tablets and smartphones are pretty darned powerful beasts. In just a few short years, we’ve gone from devices that could barely play Snake well to, well, Infinity Blade 2. But the next generation of ARM GPUs? They might make Infinity Blade 2 look like Pong. More »
Not a troll, that’s for sure. Well, maybe a super-fast 22nm high troll. Intel’s announced Ivy Bridge processors look like they’ll be extremely neat, even though the chip manufacturer is on the ‘tick’ side of its schedule, more concerned with manufacturing processes than massive architectural changes. More »
AndroidAndMe has rewatched the Samsung Galaxy S keynote from earlier in the week (barrel of laughs ’round their way!) and realised that the 1GHz chip they mentioned – which can “process a staggering 90 million triangles per second” actually works out to three times faster than the Snapdragon processor. More »
