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Rumor: The iPhone's next GPU

by Steven Sande (Jan 11th, 2010)

The Graphics Processing Unit, or GPU, of any modern computing device is an important piece of hardware that offloads 3D graphics rendering from the main processor. At CES 2010 last week, chip manufacturer Imagination Technologies may have spilled the beans on the GPU for the next generation of ...

What Snow Leopard feature are you anticipating the most?

by Steven Sande (Aug 24th, 2009)

Now that we have the actual ship date for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (August 28th for those who haven't yet had a cup of coffee to wake them up), it's time to start thinking about what benefits you can gain from the newest member of Apple's cat family. Apple has told us from the start that Snow ...

Mac mini, Apple TV to use new Ion platform?

by Robert Palmer (Jan 16th, 2009)

Tom's Hardware says that Apple will use NVIDIA's Ion platform in an updated Mac mini, and AppleInsider says it could also be used in an updated Apple TV. NVIDIA's Ion platform is a low-cost, small-form-factor logic board that includes both an NVIDIA graphics processor and Intel CPU (among other ...

Apple turns next operating system's 3D prowess up to 11

by Aron Trimble (Dec 11th, 2008)

Apple, not shy of shaking things up in the interface department, has been sitting on its laurels since the release of OS X earlier this decade. Sure, iPod changed the way we think about music and iPhone has completely turned the mobile phone industry around, but the Mac OS has been relatively ...

OpenCL 1.0 ratified; is Snow Leopard now ready for launch?

by Steven Sande (Dec 10th, 2008)

There's been quiet anticipation for the last 6 months for OpenCL (Open Computing Language), which is an Application Programming Interface standard allowing developers to take advantage of the power of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) in parallel with multi-core processors. The result? Applications ...