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Saturday Afternoon
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Saturday, 8-December-2007 17:52:24 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Digital_Monkey sent all these:
Michael Bay has apparently accused Microsoft of sabotaging HD DVD and Blu-Ray. Responding to a question posted on Michael Bay’s official web forums asking once again why Transformers was released only on HD DVD and not Blu-ray Disc, Bay expressed his believe that Microsoft is behind a scheme to sabotage both high-definition disc formats. Mind you, Microsoft is one of the pioneers and largest backers of HD DVD.
IBM have a supercomputer-on-a-chip under research. The technology, called silicon nanophotonics, replaces some of the wires on a chip with pulses of light on tiny optical fibers for quicker and more power-efficient data transfers between cores on a chip, said Will Green, research scientist at IBM.
Here's a video of a Pac-Man Xmas Tree. Spanish language site but you can see it all in the video. And there's a chick speaking with a spanish accent which is never a bad thing.
There'll be a public test of Vista SP1 very soon. It is releasing the test code this week to the 15,000 or so people who have been beta testing SP1 already, and will also make it available on Thursday to those in the MSDN and TechNet developer programs. Office 2007 SP1 is coming soon too.
Xbit reckon AMD may be considering multi-die GPUs. It is little known about products code-named ATI R700 today, but, according to an article at PC Watch web-site, the next generation of graphics solutions from AMD may utilize multi-chip module (MCM) concept instead of multi-GPU concept, at least, in the high-end. Even though both approaches have drawbacks compared to single-chip solutions, in case of homogeneous MCM some issues are easier to solve.
Meanwhile Barcelona's ramp-up has been pushed back to Q1 2008. A chip-level bug, or errata, that affected both the quad-core Opterons and AMD's recently released quad-core Phenom desktop processors was "part of the reason" for the sluggish ramp-up, said Phil Hughes of AMD Global Communications.
In fact AMD has released a statement about the Quad-Core issues. However we did say during that call that we would ship "hundreds of thousands of quad-core processors" into the server and desktop segments during Q4. AMD is tracking to this guidance. Quad Core AMD Opteron processor is the most advanced x86 processor ever introduced to the market and as such there are design and process tuning steps that have taken longer than expected.
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