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Video purports to show HTC Sense for Windows Phone 7
Sep 16th
A YouTube video (embedded below) shows what is believed to be a custom HTC Sense interface overlaid atop the upcoming Windows Phone 7 OS. The product fits into the tile inteface for the WP7 home screen and appears very well polished, with fast speeds and overall execution, suggesting the smartphone it’s preloaded on may be very near a release. Revealed in the video are new apps, including a 3D notes program that can be made as a sticky on the home screen.
The execution is original and reveals some unique gesture-control touches and 3D animations. A weather app is also More >
AMD ships 4GB ATI FirePro V9800 graphics card
Sep 10th
AMD has revealed its newest workstation-class graphics card, the ATI FirePro V9800. It flaunts 4GB of GDDR5 RAM and 1,600 stream processors, while supporting maximum resolutions of 2,560×1,600 at 60Hz. The design is an evolution of the FirePro V8800, with double the RAM and improvements in power and efficiency.
There are otherwise six Mini DisplayPort outputs, with the connected displays driven by ATI EyeFinity. Support for DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.0 and ATI CrossFire Pro is ensured, and the card gets a 256-bit memory interface. The same Cyprus GPU is used as in the V8800, but it’s faster in this application More >
NVIDIA unwraps mid-range GeForce 400M notebook graphics
Sep 5th
NVIDIA kicked off the IFA show in earnest by unveiling the rest of the GeForce 400M lineup. Like the GTX 480M, the series is built on the Fermi architecture and supports full DirectX 11 (and OpenGL 4) features, but now in thin-and-light notebooks. The designs should be much faster for general-purpose computing like CUDA and OpenCL, and NVIDIA claims five times better performance for the relatively basic GT 420M versus Intel’s current Core iX integrated video.
The line includes two particularly high-end chips destined for desktop replacement notebooks and other larger models. The GTX 470M runs 288 visual processing cores, More >