www.engadget.com:
In case you missed it, everyone, and we mean everyone is talking multi-touch these days. Few however, can muster a multi-touch panel in sizes of 100-inches and beyond. The panel above is a 120-inch, rear-projection jobbie from DAHAN T&S offering a 10ms repsonse. Sure, it’s running XP at the moment, but with some of the wildest speculation citing a new multi-touch interface as the reason for Leopard’s delay, who knows what that panel might be sporting come October.
www.laptoping.com May 18th, 2007:
AMD today officially unveiled more details of its next-generation notebook computer platform, codenamed “Puma”, which features the “Griffin” processor and “RS780″ mobile chipset. The platform will provide longer battery life, graphics and video processing enhancements, and improvement in overall system performance, the chip maker announced at a press conference in Tokyo, Japan.
www.fudzilla.com:
Microsoft Game Studios, Ensemble Studios and Big Huge Games Inc. announced a new expanison pack for popular Age of Empires III. A new expansion will introduce Asian civilazations, as well as some new gameplay features.
A new expansion pack will provide new content and several new gameplay elements thta include new ways of winning and trading, and 15 new Asian “Wonders”. Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties will also ship as a Games for Windows title with easier installation, improved reliability and support for key Windows Vista features, including the Games Explorer and Parental Controls.
New expansions release date is to be announced and here is the screenshot from the game. You can check out more information on Age of Empires III web site.
www.fudzilla.com:
We already informed you that R700 is a 55 nanometre, multi core unified architecture and we even mentioned that this chip is aiming for DirectX 10.1 support.
The biggest thing about the next generation marchitecture is the second generation tessellation engine. The R600 and Xbox chip, also known as Xeons, already have the fist generation tessellation engine but unfortunately this feature is not supported in DirectX 10.
Microsoft already promised to get the tessellation in DirectX 10.1 or whatever it ends up calling it. You can get much better terrains and high detail characters by using this method.
www.fudzilla.com:
We learned that Sapphire’s eye catching dual R600 water cooled card will first be showcased at Computex. The samples should be ready around that time, while late June sounds about right for availability on the market.
Sapphire is now happy selling the reference boards, but this is about to change in mid to late June when the company plans to be ready with the dual Crossfire water card. We don’t have any idea about the suggested retail price of such a product or will you be able to buy only one card.
www.fudzilla.com:
Western digital just announced a new 250 GB Scorpio 2.5 hard drive and this small baby includes perpendicular magnetic recording technology.
WD claims that the drive is the quietest, coolest and consumes very little power. The new SATA 2.5 inch mobile hard drive is available in sizes from 40 to 250 GB and it rotates at 5400 RPM.
The suggested retail price for the 250 GB version is $199.99 USD and the drive is available now at the companies web site, just try to find the model number WD2500BEVS.
AMD WILL STAY in DDR2 land with upcoming generation of chipsets, but this does not mean their everlasting competitor will have a performance advantage. Even though AMD will use dual-channel DDR2-1066, the company still expects to beat DDR3 in performance numbers at least until DDR3-1600 becomes a reality. This is much to the fact that memory controller inside the AMD processors always worked at very high efficiency, such as 90+ percentage, while Intel is currently stuck with a frontside bus that cannot eat up more than a single DDR2-1066 channel, yet alone two (Intel and Nvidia chipsets with dual-channel memory controllers make up in write arena, since write speed is almost the same as the read speed - something that single-channel memory cannot do).
AMD will support members of 10h family (Barcelona/Agena/Griffin) with two chipsets: RD790 and RS790. RD790 is a high-peforming chipset, while RS790 features next step in integrated graphics for AMD.
On a recently held CTO Technology Summit in Monterey, AMD’s execs were happy to show Agena FX (rebranded Barcelona) and Agena happily running in motherboards based on RD790 chipset. As it goes, motherboards that were shown carried names of fishes. These are engineering motherboards, so do not expect that this layout will come to life, unless some AMD’s partner such as Sapphire comes on board.
