Dean Pullen the Inquirer, Tuesday 19 August 2008. 15:47:00

Nvidia gains further support

EMERGENT HAS announced plans to further partner with Nvidia on the company's Gamebryo development platform. In an announcement which can be seen as a sizeable win for Nvidia, Emergent will integrate Physx technology into all upcoming versions of the 'industry-leading' Gamebryo....

Nebojsa Novakovic the Inquirer, Tuesday 19 August 2008. 15:05:00

IDF San Francisco Intel gives full house demo

ASIDE FROM Nehalem and Larrabee talks, the star of the Day 1 show at IDF was the new lineup of Intel SSD SATA-2 drives. The slim black units, initially available in 32 GB SLC and 80 GB MLC flavours, claim record-breaking read and write speeds....

Paul Taylor the Inquirer, Tuesday 19 August 2008. 18:34:00

Daily Wibblery Watt for watt analysis

POWER CONSUMPTION and heat dumps in our systems have leapfrogged their way with the launch of the GTX 200-series and RV770s. Well, Planet X64 has gone off and rounded up several graphics cards from the green and red teams, testing their power efficiency versus overall performance....

Tony Dennis the Inquirer, Tuesday 19 August 2008. 19:11:00

Is it a phone? Is it a Skype terminal? Is it a 3G dongle?

WHILST NEWS of 3's updated Skype handset had already leaked out, the company has just released the full specs for this handset. Known as the 3 Skypephone S2, its major feature is an ability to act just like a USB dongle....

Sylvie Barak the Inquirer, Tuesday 19 August 2008. 20:57:00

IDF San Francisco Runs out of steam

LURED BY THE PROMISE of a truly stimulating debate on what the press pack called the "hot topic of Green IT", tech journos from far and wide queued excitedly for Intel's five hour extravaganza dubbed the 'Eco Technology Great Debate' event....

Nebojsa Novakovic the Inquirer, Tuesday 19 August 2008. 15:47:00

IDF San Francisco DDR4 confirmed for 2012 - Voltages dropping further...

THE DDR3 TALK here by Qimonda (yeah, a seemingly vulgar word in some Latin lingos) was filled to the capacity. It showed a couple of interesting points, starting with the 1Gb dies becoming mainstream by early next year....

Sylvie Barak the Inquirer, Tuesday 19 August 2008. 20:57:00

IDF San Francisco Albeit a bit ramblingly

SLAGGING OFF THE US government's policies on healthcare and education, Intel Chairman Craig Barrett used his opening keynote at the company's Developer Forum today to wax lyrical about the importance of technological innovation for the state of humanity....

Emma Hughes the Inquirer, Tuesday 19 August 2008. 15:10:00

No more corpse characters, says Image Metrics

EXTREMELY LIFELIKE CHARACTERS are expected to make a huge hit in films and games as the latest technology hits a peak. A new modelling technology is able to capture and recreate the minutest details of a facial expression, making it the first of its kind to break down the barrier...

Aharon Etengoff the Inquirer, Tuesday 19 August 2008. 14:46:00

Shatters traditional scaling barriers

BIG BLUE has announced the first working static random access memory (SRAM) cell for the 22 nanometer (nm) technology node. The new SRAM utilises a conventional six-transistor blueprint and has an area of 0.1um2 – a measurement that reportedly shatters previous SRAM scaling barriers....

Fernando Cassia the Inquirer, Tuesday 19 August 2008. 12:30:00

Unboxing OSD 2.0 has plenty of room for expansion

THE FOLKS at Neuros Technology have introduced a 'developer version' of its upcoming next-generation Linux-based Digital Video Recorder and Media Centre, the OSD 2.0. And here we have our first look at this device which just arrived at our LatAm review lab....