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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 …

ntel ships 2.4 GHz Pentium 4

We know you where worrying about this, but relax, the 2.4 GHz Pentium 4s are shipping. The chips codenamed Northwood are Intel’s first chips to be built using the .13-process and 200mm wafers but next month Intel plans to start releasing chips built using the .13-process and the new …Click here to read this news article

Apple updates DVD Studio Pro 1.5 for Mac OS X

Apple has introduced the latest version of its DVD Studio Pro, the 1.5 version has been optimized for Max OS X. The OS X advantage gives the program the ability to do MPEG encoding and other work in background. Other new features include integration with Final Cut Pro that …Click here to read this news article

AMD gets new endorsements for Opteron

AMD is building an environment for its new Opteron—their first chip to be introduced using the Hammer technology. Obviously, a hunky chip like this needs graphics, and AMD announced that 3DLabs, ATI, Matrox and SiS have committed to developing products for the Opteron chip. The Opteron will support AGP-8X …Click here to read this news article

ATI and PalmSource announce licensing deal

Sometimes, all you have to do is speculate a little and suddenly the answers are handed to you. (It really works when you go out on a limb and speculate in public.) Recently, when writing about the potential of ATI's Imageon chip for handhelds we noted that the first …Click here to read this news article

Toshiba opts for Spatializer in its Edge RD-X2 DVD recorder

Toshiba’s brand new RD-X2 recorder is a DVD-R/RAM product that enables users to record up to six hours of content on a single disk. The way this works out on formats is that users can record to the DVD-Video format on DVD-R disks and be assured their content will …Click here to read this news article