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.
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The first Fermi graphics cards from Nvidia will bear the names GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 470. All preliminary hearsay indicates they will be ornery beasts. And cost as much as dragons. [Nvidia]
Last week Intel blabbed to us that its high-end Larrabee card would never debut as a “standalone discrete product,” and now its demise has been made official. Can you hear Nvidia and AMD crowing from where you are too? [Reuters]
Intel just told us that its first Larrabee graphics card isn’t ever coming out “as standalone discrete product,” because they’re behind where they’d hoped to be in development, meaning you won’t be shoving one inside of your PC anytime soon.