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NVIDIA and Intel haven’t been shy about their differing respective visions of the future of computing in the past year or so, but it looks like Team GPU just upped the rhetoric a little — a Forbes column by NVIDIA VP Bill Dally argues that “Moore’s law is dead.” Given that Moore’s law is arguably the foundation of Intel’s entire business, such a statement is a huge shot across the bow; though other companies like AMD are guided by the doctrine, Intel’s relentless pursuit of Gordon Moore’s vision has become a focal point and rallying cry for the world’s largest chipmaker.

So what’s Dally’s solution to the death of Moore’s law? For everyone to buy into parallel computing, where — surprise, surprise — NVIDIA’s GPUs thrive. Dally says that dual, quad- and hex-core solutions are inefficient — he likens multi-core chips to “trying to build an airplane by putting wings on a train,” and says that only ground-up parallel solutions designed for energy efficiency will bring back the golden age of doubling performance every two years. That sounds fantastic, but as far as power consumption is concerned, well, perhaps NVIDIA had best lead by example.

NVIDIA VP says ‘Moore’s law is dead’ originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 May 2010 01:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Considering the almost complete absence of love in the commercial marketplace for Moorestown and Moblin — and the fact that there’s no sign of MeeGo building serious momentum just yet — we’re sure that Intel would’ve just loved for the drop-dead-sexy GW990 to serve as the platform’s crown jewel for 2010. Unfortunately, that’s not going to happen, because we’ve just been able to confirm that the 4.8-inch beast (and potential Dell Mini 5 foil) has been wiped off the product roadmap. Though we don’t know exactly what happened, the fact that Moblin is effectively dead and MeeGo isn’t ready for prime time might be part of LG’s justification for killing it off; if you might recall, the GW990 was introduced before MeeGo was official, and the original plan was to have it on the market in the second half of this year. Then again, this might be just as well — we weren’t impressed by the fact that LG was positioning the phone as a closed device back at CES, and there are still plenty of open questions as to how Intel and Nokia plan to offer apps on MeeGo — so let’s just hope this form factor reemerges from LG’s labs soon enough, yeah?

Confirmed: LG’s Moorestown-based GW990 won’t be made originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sony, Intel, and Google are teaming up to produce a line of Internet-connected televisions that will run on a new version of Google’s Android operating system, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.

Intel is contributing a
customized version of its Atom chip that will run a new version
of Google’s Android operating system called Dragonpoint, Bloomberg reported. The TVs will be announced at the Google I/O conference in May.

The Bloomberg story apparently confirms an earlier report by The New York Times that says essentially the same thing. What’s new is that Bloomberg has unearthed a name for the Android TV derivative. Logitech, as both the Times and Bloomberg reported, is working to develop a remote control/keyboard combo device to control the new TVs.

Google declined to comment on rumors and speculation.

There’s already been some rumors circulating that Intel would be rolling out a 1.33GHz Core i7 ULV processor this summer, and it now looks like that will be followed by an even faster low-voltage processor later in the Fall. That’s when, according to Fudzilla, Intel will be launching a 1.46GHz Core i7 680UM processor, which reportedly has the same 18W TDP rating and 4MB of cache as its slower counterpart, and can clock all the way up to 2.53GHz in Turbo Boost mode. Unfortunately, there’s not so much as a hint of pricing or any actual laptops that will use the processor, and Intel itself is of course keeping quiet on the matter for the time being.

Intel said to be prepping 1.46GHz Core i7 ULV processor for this Fall originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A little bit of Euroland investigation this morning has revealed signs that Intel’s upcoming 1.66GHz N455 and 1.83GHz N475 Atom processors are close to making their official debut. Netbook Italia spotted the official Toshiba website posting up an NB305-10F model a little prematurely — a page that was promptly yanked, but not before our amici were able to note the inclusion of the DDR3-compatible N455 CPU, a gigabyte of RAM, 250GB hard disk and otherwise unchanged specs. The expected price for that netbook is noted at €350 ($467), which is also the price at which the upgraded HP Mini 210 — spotted by German outfit nDevil — is listed on Amazon.de. Shipping dates are predictably not yet ascertained, though it’s looking like things are about to get moving nice and swiftly from here on out.

Toshiba NB305 and HP Mini 210 to be upgraded with Atom N455 CPUs and DDR3 memory originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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