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  • Apple A4 processor really stripped-down Cortex A8? | Electronista

    Following further articles published on the Apple iPad cpu, new reports are surfacing the custom CPU Apple created called the A4 may be an ARM Cortex A8 single core cpu with integrated graphics GPU and controller logic.

  • AppleInsider | Custom Apple A4 iPad chip estimated to be $1 billion investment

    What’s the point of licensing computer chip designs from another company if it costs about the 1/3 the price of building it yourself? That seems like a rhetorical question, but I always assumed that people who licensed technology from ARM holdings were aiming to save tons of money compared to fabricating the chips themselves. So…

  • Next Flash Version Will Support Private Browsing

    Adobe Flash as a web browser plug-in may see it’s dominance wane. Time to ditch the plug-in and make a Multimedia Web Browser once and for all time.

  • Google Chrome bookmark sync

    Anyone who downloaded and installed the old Google Browser sync plug-in for Mozilla back in the day enjoyed a wonderful cross-platform way of keeping bookmarks up to date on all the computers they use. I have seen Browser Sync come, then go. Now Google has a web browser, Chrome which has at long last restored…

  • links for 2010-02-04

    http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/02/02/canon.intros.mpeg.2.full.hd.codec.ahead.of.camera/ Canon is mucking up the works by creating yet another digital video format for people to adopt. AVHDC, HDV and now this lone MPEG-2 based format. It's getting real confusing to keep up with these attempts to corner the market (tags: video canon digital)

  • Apple A4 SOC unveiled – It’s an ARM CPU and the GPU! – Bright Side Of News*

    “iPad is powered by our own custom silicon. We have an incredible group that does custom silicon at Apple,” company co-founder Steve Jobs said during Wednesday’s keynote. “We have a chip called A4, which is our most advanced chip we’ve ever done that powers the iPad. It’s got the processor, the graphics, the I/O, the…

  • Some people are finding Google Wave useful

    I’m not hating on Google Wave, far from it. But I’m curious how much people are adopting it for the day-to-day communications they are doing at work. What about YOU?

  • links for 2010-01-28

    Video on the Web – Dive Into HTML5 This is a great description of containers versus codecs when it comes to video files on the web. There are many types of containers and many types of codecs. You can have an AVI file that is encoded in Xvid/DivX. Or you can have a Quicktime file…

  • Intel linked with HPC boost buy • The Register

    Larabee is the code name for an Intel graphics card/chipset that was designed to compete against nVidia and AMD. One side benefit would be it could be used as a co-processor to accelerate software algorithms on desktop computers like nVidia’s CUDA architecture or Apple’s OpenCL. Sadly the only market left for Larabee might be High…

  • Buzz Bombs in the News – Or the Wheel Reinvented

    Is it the buzz bomb or a shock cannon, you be the judge.