News tagged with graphics

results timeline


Hardware-accelerated global illumination by image space photon mapping

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Research presented in a paper by Morgan McGuire, assistant professor of computer science at Williams College, and co-author Dr. David Luebke of NVIDIA, introduces a new algorithm to improve computer graphics for video games.


New Intel products to be launched in January

Next-generation Intel products to be launched in January; Include first 32-nm Core i3, i5 processors

Electronics / Hardware

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (13) | comments 1 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- Intel has announced it will launch over two dozen new products next month, including new processors, chipsets, and a number of wireless components.


GSM

GSM system about to be compromised

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (21) | comments 12 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research scientists in California and elsewhere are deliberately setting out to compromise the mobile phone system used by around three billion people. The system uses Global System for Mobile ...


Nvidia, AMD shares jump after Intel scraps chip

Technology / Business

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Shares of Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. jumped Monday after rival Intel Corp. scrapped plans to make a new graphics chip that would have challenged both companies.


Gift Guide: Touch and Windows 7 in fresh PC lineup (AP)

Gift Guide: Touch and Windows 7 in fresh PC lineup

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- This holiday season is a great time to buy a PC. There's a nice new version of Windows out, and computer manufacturers are adding interesting new technologies. Here's a guide to what's fresh in PCs, ...


Building real security with virtual worlds

Building real security with virtual worlds

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Advances in computerized modeling and prediction of group behavior, together with improvements in video game graphics, are making possible virtual worlds in which defense analysts can explore ...


New computer cluster gets its grunt from games

New computer cluster gets its grunt from games

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Technology designed to blast aliens in computer games is part of a new GPU (Graphics Processing Units) computer cluster that will process CSIRO research data thousands of times faster and more efficiently ...


Elpida Completes Development of 1-Gigabit GDDR5

Elpida Completes Development of 1-Gigabit GDDR5

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Elpida Memory, Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory, today announced that it had developed a 1-gigabit GDDR5 (product name: EDW1032BABG) that operates at a world-class high speed ...


History in 3D

History in 3D

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Three-dimensional computer graphics is moving into museums. Works of art are being digitally archived in 3D, simplifying research into related artifacts and providing the public with fascinating ...


STMicroelectronics and ARM Team Up to Power Next-Generation Home Entertainment

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

STMicroelectronics, one of the world’s leading set-top-box chip makers, and ARM, announced today that ST has adopted the ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor, in addition to the Mali-400 graphics processor, for its upcoming set-top-box ...


Study examines how much is too much visual information when it comes to learning

Study examines how much is too much visual information when it comes to learning

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It’s been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. But with advances in computer graphics capabilities, more recent cognitive theory related to multimedia learning suggests that very ...


Acer goes deep with 3-D laptop for gaming, movies (AP)

Acer goes deep with 3-D laptop for gaming, movies

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(AP) -- With the launch of Windows 7 this week, PC makers are trying some new things, including laptops with touch screens. Acer Inc. is going further - introducing a laptop with a 3-D screen.


NVIDIA Unveils Next Generation CUDA GPU Architecture -- Codenamed 'Fermi'

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

NVIDIA Corp. today introduced its next generation CUDA GPU architecture, codenamed "Fermi". An entirely new ground-up design, the "Fermi" architecture is the foundation for the world’s first computational graphics processing ...


Intel's Atom CE4100 SoC

Intel's Atom CE 4100 SoC Will Transform Internet TV (w/ Video)

Electronics / Hardware

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (12) | comments 0 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- At the IDF event, in Santa Clara, California, Intel announced the debut of their newest System-on-Chip (SoC), the Intel Atom processor CE4100. The CE4100 SoC is designed exclusively to facilitate ...


Superior 3D Graphics for the Web a Step Closer

Superior 3D Graphics for the Web a Step Closer

Technology / Software

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (17) | comments 1 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- The development of improved three-dimensional graphics in Web-based applications took a step forward recently, when programmers began building WebGL into the Mozilla Firefox nightly builds, ...