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. …
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Intel's New Arc-Branded GPUs Will Battle Nvidia, AMD in Q1 2022
… 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… …
Microsoft deals with Surface and Windows RT woes
… 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. …
The new Apple TV is a big deal, but it's not a gaming console
… There's a ton of potential for consumers and developers alike. …
Microsoft Launches $3,500 HoloLens 2 Headset
… 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… …
Intel Hires Former Nvidia Researcher Who Helped Develop Ray Tracing Tech
… 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 CPU 'virtual core' design emerges: Could this be the conceptual computing breakthrough we've been waiting for?
… 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. …
Microsoft Unveils Business Subscription Model for Windows, Office
… 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. …
Microsoft announces Windows-on-ARM partnership with Qualcomm, but done right this time
… 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. …
ET deals: 30% off new Dell Venue 11 Pro Haswell convertible tablet
… On the hardware front, Dell might be starting to make Apple a little jealous. …