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NVIDIA plans to merge CPU and GPU – eventually

By tim, on December 16th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I spoke to Dr Steve Scott, NVIDIA’s CTO for Tesla, at the end of the GPU Technology Conference which has just finished here in Beijing. In the closing session, Scott talked about the future of NVIDIA’s GPU computing chips. NVIDIA releases a new generation of graphics chips every two years:

2008 Tesla 2010 Fermi

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C++ 11 is approved by ISO: a big day for native code development

By tim, on August 13th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Herb Sutter reports that C++ 0x, which will be called C++ 11, has been unanimously approved by the ISO C++ committee. The “11” in the name refers to the year of approval, 2011. The current standard is C++ 98, though amended as C++ 03, so it has taken 8 or 13 years to update

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When will Intel’s Many Integrated Core processors be mainstream?

By tim, on April 13th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I’m at Intel’s software tools conference in Dubrovnik, which I have attended for the last three years, and as usual the big topic is concurrent programming and how to write code that takes advantage of the multiple cores in today’s computers.

Clearly this remains a critical subject, but in some ways the progress over

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Intel disappointed with Nokia’s Microsoft move, still backing MeeGo

By tim, on February 13th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Intel’s Suzy Ramirez has posted about the future of MeeGo Linux following Nokia’s decision to base its smartphone strategy on Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system. Nokia was Intel’s key partner for MeeGo, which was formed by merging Intel’s Moblin with Nokia’s Maemo.

Although Nokia has been an important partner to Intel and MeeGo and

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Ten big tech trends from 2010

By tim, on December 31st, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

This was an amazing year for tech. Here are some of the things that struck me as significant.

Sun Java became Oracle Java

Oracle acquired Sun and set about imposing its authority on Java. Java is still Java, but Oracle lacks Sun’s commitment to open source and community – though even in Sun days

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If Microsoft is serious about Silverlight, it needs to do Linux

By tim, on September 16th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Today was a significant event for the UK broadcasting industry: the announcement of YouView, formerly called Project Canvas, which is backed by partners including the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, and BT. It will provide broadcasts over IP, received by a set top box, include a catch-up service, and be capable of interactive

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Intel AppUp is Up, but underwhelming.

By tim, on September 15th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Intel has launched AppUp, its application store for Windows and Moblin/MeeGo Linux.

Isn’t Moblin obsolete, and now merged into MeeGo? That is the plan, but AppUp still talks about Moblin:

Apparently:

The Intel AppUp developer program will support MeeGo. The current Moblin SDK for the Intel AppUpSM developer program is

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What is happening with Silverlight on Intel Moblin/Meego?

By tim, on May 19th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Last September, Microsoft and Intel announced a port of Silverlight to Moblin Linux. I posted on the subject here, including a quote from Microsoft’s Brian Goldfarb:

Microsoft and Intel announced today that the two companies have agreed to work together to bring support for Silverlight 3 to Intel’s Atom-based Mobile Internet Devices (MID). These

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Silverlight (and AIR) for MeeGo Linux coming in October?

By tim, on April 17th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Back in September 2009, Intel and Microsoft announced an official port of Silverlight for Linux, or at least for what was then Intel’s Moblin project, a Linux distribution tailored for netbooks. It was surprising to learn that this would be an official port using Microsoft’s code, as opposed to something based on Moonlight, the

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Intel’s compiler is best for AMD too says software director

By tim, on April 15th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I attended Intel’s software conference in Barcelona earlier this week, and took the opportunity to talk to Director of Software Products James Reinders. I asked him about the complaint from the FTC, which I reported on here, that Intel deliberately underperforms on non-Intel CPUs, specifically those made by AMD. Was it a valid complaint?

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