Windows 8 Bay Trail tablets may finally hit prices consumers are willing to pay
… Ivy and Sandy Bridge-equipped notebooks with far better hardware were available for significantly less money. …
… Ivy and Sandy Bridge-equipped notebooks with far better hardware were available for significantly less money. …
… Future consumer GPU hardware and software will be collectively branded as "Intel Arc." Intel writes: "The Arc brand will cover hardware, software, and services, and will span multiple hardware generations, with the first generation, based on the X e HPG microarchitecture, code-named Alchemist forme… …
… So now, instead of an HP-built solution with Qualcomm hardware, we have a Samsung-built solution with Qualcomm hardware. Qualcomm, it seems, is quite serious about breaking into the PC market in 2012. The big question is whether or not consumers will jump for Windows RT in the first place. …
… There's a ton of potential for consumers and developers alike. …
… According to Alex Kipman, who heads up the HoloLens project, HoloLens is for "people that have been, in a sense, neglected or haven’t had access to technology in their hands-on jobs because PCs, tablets, phones don’t really lend themselves to those experiences." Speculation that Microsoft would ope… …
… This gives us an opportunity to not only completely reinvent how we co-design graphics hardware and software with these technologies in the driver’s seat, but also to look at a larger picture of a potentially novel graphics ecosystem that can include heterogenous distributed systems and multi-level… …
… VISC attempts to avoid the difficulties of scaling multiple threads in hardware -- and providing support for such in software -- by providing a framework in which workloads that appear sequential to the operating system are then scheduled across a set of virtual cores in hardware. …
… There's an expectation of baked-in, regular fees for per-seat licensing, support contracts, upgrade deals, and a host of other factors that consumers simply don't account for. The other factor to consider, and this is critical, is the companies Microsoft competes with in the consumer space. …
… Zen doesn't have a sub-2W SoC on the horizon, and Microsoft wanted to continue with its own projects now, not wait for a hardware vendor to meet its needs. …
… On the hardware front, Dell might be starting to make Apple a little jealous. …