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Wednesday, 6-January-2016 10:44:51 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Hope you had a great break. Time for some news catchup!
There's a Games Done Quick marathon for charity running at the moment. Games Done Quick is a bi-annual charity gaming marathon. Volunteers play games at incredible speed ("Speedrunning") for entertainment. The event is streamed live online, non-stop, and all donations go directly to the charity.
AMD have unveiled their latest GPU architecture. Codenamed Polaris, this new architecture will be the 4th generation of GCN (Graphics Core Next), and it will be the first AMD GPU that is built on FinFET process technology. These two changes combined promise to offer the biggest improvement in performance per watt, generation to generation, in AMD’s history. Coverage on PC Perspective, Guru3D, Tech Report, Tweaktown, HotHardware and Techgage.
You might be interested to know which large technology companies paid no tax in Australia last year. The ATO data reveals the likes of Acer, Alcatel-Lucent, Amaysim, ASG Group, Citrix, Cubic Transportation Systems, Dimension Data, HP, Ingram Micro, Macquarie Telecom, NEC, the Nokia Group, NTT, Verizon and Vodafone paid zero tax in Australia in the 2013-14 year. Some of this data can be explained by the losses incurred by the companies - Ingram Micro and HP both posted losses for the year. But a zero tax bill can also mean a company had offsets against profits that reduced their tax obligations to zero.
Intel have completed their biggest acquisition ever, inhaling fellow chip maker Altera. As the Wall Street Journal explains, technology giants such as Facebook, Google and Microsoft currently use Intel's Xeon processors for computational work. Some, however, are bolstering them with field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) sold by Altera, which are useful because they can be reprogrammed. Intel will sell the two pieces together starting next year, but its long-term vision is to combine both onto a single chip.
There seems to be a new Google Glass on the way. In general, the case looks smoother and rounder than the previous version of Google Glass. The "Glass" part also seems to be completely independent of the glasses that hold it on your face—the FCC never shows a wearable version with a second side.
TechSpot look into VRAM amounts on video cards. Therefore we have put together a clock-for-clock comparison of the GeForce GTX 960 and Radeon R9 380 using 2GB and 4GB cards. Also along for the ride is the previous-gen Radeon R9 290 4GB and the newer (rebadged) R9 390 8GB, which have again been compared at the same clock speeds.
Origin and AMD are giving away a gaming PC.
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