March 18, 2007 by Brad.

At GDC today, AMD announced a suite of tools for developing handheld gaming content for the company’s next-generation mobile graphics chips. These chips support the same Unified Shader Architecture as the Xbox 360’s ATI-designed GPU. Are phones the last stop here, or could the “Xboy” be on its way?

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March 18, 2007 by Brad.

Why not spend some money on the computer part you interact with the most, your keyboard? Keyboards ranging from $250-$4400 USD.

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March 18, 2007 by Brad.

Ars analyzes the mysterious PhysX PPU from Ageia and reveals that it’s really a multicore architecture like IBM’s Cell. In the course of the article, Ars also explains how companies like Ageia, IBM, NVIDIA, and ATI would like to use economies of scale from the gaming market to break into the supercomputer market.

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March 18, 2007 by Brad.

Draft 2.0 of the 802.11n spec has been approved by the 802.11 Working Group, moving the increasingly popular wireless networking technology a step closer to its final form.

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March 18, 2007 by Brad.

TheTechZone has a review of Samsung’s long-awaited XL20 20″ LCD monitor. Rather than using a CCFL as a backlight the XL20 uses an array LEDs. This unit uses an RGB LED that produces a very true white as well as a perfectly even backlight and 114% of the NTSC colour gamut!

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