ARM gains flashy new media processing instructions
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ARM has developed a suite of media and signal processing instructions that will appear in future ARM processors targeting mobile consumer devices.
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Adobe Integrated Runtime paves the way for Web applications that perform like desktop-bound programs.Images: Building apps on AIR
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Gestures are all the rage these days and a new Synaptics touchpad means that Windows-based laptops should also start responding to a host of touch commands.
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Steve Jobs' keynote address to WWDC 2007 attendees can now be viewed as a video on demand using QuickTime.
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Powerful computer processor will be modified for mobile devices.
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Rewriteable version of the next-gen DVD format moves closer to mass production.
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Blog: CompactFlash Association looks to memory card boost transfer rates and capacity standard with the faster Serial ATA interface.
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Compact kit for the thumb-generation
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LONDON - U.K. semiconductor design company Arm Ltd. is teaming with a division of Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV to develop a self-timed processor that promises low-power consumption and easy integration for use in smart cards and consumer electronics.
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Aimed at enabling new levels of interactive content not previously possible on mobile phones, PDAs and other handheld devices, Nvidia has unveiled its GoForce 3D 4500 3D wireless media processor (WMP), which allows mobile content developers to create 3D
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The new NAND chip design will increase throughput up to 5X
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ARM is showing a mobile phone based on the Android platform at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
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Users running Vista can supposedly use flash memory sticks to improve boot-up times and boost the start-up speed of their most important software.
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(InfoWorld) - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. wants developers to start thinking about how they can speed up their software using new instructions that will appear in the company's processors from 2009. The additions could simplify the way developers code the iterative calculations used to shade graphics, render photos or add spatial effects to audio. Future x86 processors based on AMD's 64-bit Bulldozer core will understand the expanded instruction set, which the company calls SSE5. AMD published a note to developers about the SSE5 specification on Thursday. Each of the new instructions will process several pieces of data with one instruction, a feature called Single Instruction, Multiple Data (SIMD). Intel Corp. added the first Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) instructions to the x86 instruction set in 1999, and has introduced several generations since. It published the programming reference for SSE4 , the most recent, in April. AMD has typically followed Intel's lead by incorporating support for that company's extensions in its processors. With SSE5, AMD hopes to give developers and software buyers an extra reason to choose its processors over those of Intel. SSE5 defines 47 new basic instructions for speeding the execution of single-thread processes. One type, called multiply-add-accumulate, will allow developers to accumulate the results of many iterations of similar operations without a separate intermediate addition, speeding the kind of calculations used to render graphics or create 3D audio effects. Another allows them to multiply the contents of two registers, storing the result in a third -- a so-called three-operand instruction that can save developers juggling data between registers. If software buyers are to benefit from the additional performance of these instructions, though, developers will need software tools such as compilers that optimize their code to use them. By publishing the specifications now, AMD is giving tool builders some of the information necessary to adapt their compilers before the first Bulldozer chips are released in 2009.
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Device features more storage, improved handwriting recognition.
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Here's what's new with the Apple TV device that makes it much more useful.
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Swapping out optical media drives does the trick, hardware hackers report. In Gadget Lab.