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Microsoft unveils AMD powered Xbox One

May 22nd 2013

Although little was said about the processors in the new Xbox One, we believe it is a custom version of AMD’s newest APU with an eight Jaguar core CPUs and a big multi core GPU. The GPU will not likely not be a Radeon 7000 or 8000 core, but more similar to the UMA design AMD supplied for the Xbox 360. In addition, AMD’s APU’s encode and decode engines will likely be in the chip.

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EDITORIAL : Technology wins out over all

Techwatch May 23rd 2013

Or creatively bend the truth With the explosion of mobile devices and the SOC’s within them, I am reminded of the early days of the PC and the bragging of design wins (we used to publish every week – “The Winner’s Circle). Most of the current SOC suppliers weren’t around then. What the CPU and graphics AIB suppliers learned was it’s great to announce a design win, it excites your employees, your investors, gets the attention of other potential OEMs. However, today, just as then, a design win is a fleeting thing, just as any “win” is. The thing …

Micron demonstrates home brewed DDR/DDR-II at VIA Technology forum

The memory business is headed towards the latest in a string of inflection points for the industry with the introduction of DDRII, DDR400, and DDR333 systems. At his keynote speech at VTF (VIA Technology Forum) Terry Lee, Micron’s Executive Vice President of Finance and Business development told attendees that …Click here to read this news article

OpenTV buys Wink for $101 million

Two well-established interactive TV companies have become one. OpenTV announced the acquisition of Wink TV from Liberty Broadband Interactive telelvision for approximately $101 million ni cash. This, say the companies, is the same amount paid by Liberty to acquire Wink a short while ago. Wink’s management will join that …Click here to read this news article

TiVo Mutates

TiVo joins the ranks of companies that claims to be a home gateway. At CES the company debuted a system that enables users to share the content downloaded on the machine to be shared throughout the home through a wireless connection. Linksys is providing the connection. In addition, the …Click here to read this news article

DivXNetworks and ATI team up to further the cause of low bitrate video

ATI and DIvX networks have announced new hardware and software optimizations to enable more efficient video DivX video decoding. The companies say that thanks to the work done to optimize video processing performance is increased when Radeon 9500 and Radeon 9700 boards are used. Click here to read this news article

ESS introduces DVD recording at CES.

The DVD chip companies are under pressure to deliver DVD recording and they’re delivering at CES. ESS announced their new digital video recorder platform and says they have locked up several wins with DVD manufacturers in China, Korea, and Japan. In fact, says ESS, they have 10 wins. …Click here to read this news article