Mobile

Samsung Galaxy S Has 3x Faster GPU Than Snapdragon

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.


March 12, 2010
Gaming

Unreal Engine 3 Got Ported To Palm’s WebOS, Too

Unreal Engine 3? The graphics engine that powers many, many games (Gears of War, Mass Effect, Arkham Asylum) on consoles today? Ported on to Palm’s webOS? Neat, but not as neat as you’d think.


March 11, 2010

You Will Have A PS3 In Your Pocket In Three Years

I spoke to Imagination Technologies – maker of the PowerVR chip that powers smartphones like the iPhone, Droid and many others – and they said, definitively, that you’ll have graphics comparable to the PlayStation 3 in three years.


February 24, 2010

iPad Will Use Same Type Of PowerVR SGX Graphics Chip As iPhone

The iPhone 3.2 Beta 3 SDK documentation confirmed that developing OpenGL ES on the iPad is the same as developing OpenGL ES on other iPhone devices, using the “same basic capabilities as other SGX devices.”


January 9, 2010

This Might Be The Next iPhone’s Graphics Chip

Imagination Technologies, which was responsible for the PowerVR SGX GPU chip in the iPhone 3GS, just announced the next version in the same line. Hence, this might be the next-gen iPhone GPU. And it’s a nice chip.


July 7, 2009
Gaming

Rumour: PSP2 Already In The Works, As Powerful As First-Gen Xbox

Eurogamer’s Spanish outpost is claiming to have “insider sources” that know all manner of stuff about a forthcoming PSP2, which is alleged to have Xbox-like graphics capabilities. Too soon? Probably. Hard to believe? Quite. Intriguing anyway? Well, sure.