Earlier this month, SlashGear columnist Michael Gartenberg pondered whether Moore's Law was still relevant to PCs; obviously NVIDIA chief scientist and vice president Bill Dally has only just got the memo. The engineer has penned a guest column for Forbes on the limitations of current CPU technology, and more specifically the fact that - while processor speed has increased pretty much as Moore predicted - the power scaling part of Moore's Law has ended. "As a result, the CPU scaling predicted by Moore's Law is now dead," Dally suggests, before suggesting that parallel computing will be our saviour.
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Archive for April, 2010
Moore’s Law CPU scaling “is now dead” claims NVIDIA VP; GPU parallel computing is the future
Pandigital Photo Mail DPF with AT&T 3G drops imminently
Remember the Pandigital Photo Mail Digital Photo Frame? We mocked its name and wretched press shots back in January, but also lauded its integrated AT&T 3G for wirelessly receiving new images sent to a dedicated email address. Pandigital have just announced that the $179.99 will go on sale within the next couple of weeks, and they've also confirmed pricing for their pre-pay photo download packages.
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Acer TimelineX 1830T, 3820T, 4820T and 5820T priced
Acer's TimelineX range of notebooks may have had a patchy launch, but the company - or at least their German arm - has finally followed up with some hard release details and pricing. The 13.3-inch Acer Aspire TimelineX 1830T will land in early June for €549 ($731), while the 13.3-inch 3820T will be €699 ($931), and both the 14-inch 4820T and the 15.6-inch 5820T will start from €749 ($997).
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RIM oust Motorola from top 5 phone vendors; Samsung see major growth
Motorola have dropped out of the top five worldwide mobile phone manufacturers ranking, according to analysts IDC, with RIM taking their place. The move - which pegs Nokia in first place, followed by Samsung in second, LG in third and RIM sharing fourth place with Sony Ericsson - is being described as a sign of growing smartphone demand. Motorola, who have been a member of the top five since IDC began tracking worldwide quarterly figures in 2004, shipped 8.5m handsets in the three month period at the start of 2010; in contrast, RIM shipped 10.6m.
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Ainol V8000HDW PMP gets reviewed: slick 1080p from HDMI output
PMPs should have HDMI ports. It's a pretty straightforward - and common-sense - idea, but most big-name portable media player manufacturers would far prefer to fit a proprietary socket and then sell you a pricey adapter cable afterwards. Ainol may not be a brand name you're familiar with, but judging by MP4nation's review their new V8000HDW certainly should be on your shortlist if you're keen on HD playback.
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Microsoft pushing H.264 HTML5 video in IE9; Flash has “reliability, security & performance” issues
Apple and Microsoft might not always agree, but it seems they coincide when it comes to Flash video. After Steve Jobs posted a lengthy critique of Adobe's technology yesterday - followed by a reasonably swift rebuttal from the company themselves - Microsoft's Dean Hachamovitch, general manager for IE9, has waded in to throw some support HTML5 and H.264's way. According to Hachamovitch, "in its HTML5 support, IE9 will support playback of H.264 video only."
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Courier is dead, long live Courier?
Ah, Courier, we hardly knew you. “We have no plans” Microsoft say “to build such a device at this time.” Now, perhaps it’s my tablet-addled, ever-hopeful mind, but that doesn’t sound quite the same thing as “you won’t see a Courier-style device.” In fact, you could easily interpret it as a carefully worded workaround: we’re not going to build a Microsoft Courier, the company says, but other firms might. After all, they’ve already mention that “its technologies will be evaluated for use in future Microsoft offerings.”
iPhone HD prototype finders outed
In the ongoing iPhone HD saga, we've seen the engineer who lost the prototype handset named, various legal strategies played - including an evidence-collecting police raid - and now, finally, the names of the people in the center of all this: the person who took the smartphone from the bar, and his friend who helped him to hawk it around tech blogs. Wired has been chasing down the identity and various details on Brian J. Hogan, the 21 year old who removed the iPhone HD from the bar at which Apple engineer Gray Powell left it, while CNET turned their attention to Sage Robert Wallower, his 27-year-old friend who, they say, acted as "go-between" in negotiating the sale of the prototype.
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QuickSnap ice cube trays make getting ice out easy
My dad was always telling me how bad things were in his day when I was a kid. He had to walk to school in the show, uphill both ways, with bailing wire for shoestrings and so on. I've actually got it pretty easy and the worst thing I can think of to tell my son about how bad I had it when I was a kid was that we had to use ice trays. No stinkin' door dispenser, things were rough.
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Audiophilleo1 USB to SPDIF transport device is very expensive
Audiophiles will spend massive amounts of money on gear to get the best sound possible. For that reason most of the gear that is audiophile grade carries a massive price tag. A new product called the Audiophilleo1 has been unveiled with audiophile grade price tag of $895.
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Volkswagen bik.e fits in the spare tire compartment of a car
VW has unveiled its first ever 2-wheel design at the Auto China 2010 show. The electric bicycle sans pedals is dubbed the bik.e and is powered by batteries. Is it just me, or does this thing look like the design was based on the Kool-Aid man's smile?
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James Cameron helps NASA design 3D camera for Mars rover Curiosity
James Cameron certainly helped give 3D a huge boost in the box office with his record setting film Avatar. Avatar has gone on to break just about every record a film can break. Thanks to Cameron's 3D notoriety, he has been working with NASA to develop a new 3D camera that will be fitted to the next Mars rover.
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