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Submission + - AMD Launches Llano Fusion APU For The Desktop (hothardware.com)

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MojoKid
MojoKid writes: "AMD just launched their first Llano-based Fusion processor for the desktop and the company thinks they have struck the right balance between CPU and GPU performance, at budget-friendly price points. Pairing an A-Series APU and A75-series chipset results in what AMD is calling their "Lynx" platform. The first AMD Llano-based desktop APU, the A8-3850 is tested and benchmarked, complete with a quartet of A75-chipset based motherboards, at HotHardware. Not surprisingly, AMD's new Fusion Desktop chip does very well, versus Intel's Sandy Bridge chips, in gaming and multimedia tests but can't keep pace under general computing workloads."
AMD

Submission + - AMD Llano APU Review - Slow CPU, Fast GPU (pcper.com)

Submitted by Vigile
Vigile writes: Though we did see the fruits of AMD's Fusion labor in the form of the Brazos platform late in 2010, Llano is the first mainstream part to be released that combines traditional x86 CPU cores with Radeon-based SIMD arrays for a heterogeneous computing environment. The A-series of APUs reviewed over at PC Perspective starts with the A8-3850 that is a combination of a true quad-core processor and 400 shader processors similar to those found in AMD's Radeon HD 5000 series of GPUs. The good news for the first desktop APU is that the integrated graphics blows past the best Intel has to offer on the Sandy Bridge platform by a factor of 2-4x in terms of gaming. The bad news is the CPU performance: running at only 2.9 GHz the Phenom-based x86 portion often finds itself behind even the dual-core Intel Core i3-2100. On the bright side you can pick one up next month for only $135.
Microsoft

Submission + - OpenCL has a competitor: Microsoft C++ AMP (pcper.com)

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Phopojijo
Phopojijo writes: "Microsoft was at AMD's Fusion Developer Summit with a keynote this morning outlining Microsoft's part in the unified computing initiative. Currently your options for easily utilizing all your computing power are limited to Apple-founded OpenCL maintained by the Khronos Group. Microsoft's alternative is called C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism (or C++ AMP). Microsoft was clear to announce that C++ AMP would be an open specification. Any interested compiler developer would be allowed to support this specification."
AMD

Submission + - AMD A-Series Llano APU Platform Review (pcper.com)

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Phopojijo
Phopojijo writes: "AMD kicked off their AMD Fusion Developer Summit 2011 today and reviews of their new Llano APU are starting to trickle out. The thought is that combining a GPU on the CPU decreases the barrier to entry to having a decent GPU in your system. While the CPU performance seemed to be a bit behind Intel's offering the GPU performance is definitely a step or more above Intel's offering."

Submission + - Fermi Lab May Have Not Discovered New Particle (newscientist.com)

Submitted by Dainutehvs
Dainutehvs writes: Do You remember article in slashdot "Fermi Lab May Have Discovered New Particle or Force" and quite a few slashdotters being skeptical aout it. They might be right. Another team has analysed data from the collider and come to the exact opposite conclusion about whether it hints at a new particle. Read more in NewScientist's website http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20564
Apple

Submission + - Mac OS X Lion Has A Browser-Only Mode (digitizor.com)

Submitted by dkd903
dkd903 writes: It turns out that there is a feature in OS X Lion which no one expected and was never announced at WWDC. The feature we are talking about is “Restart to Safari”. As you might have guessed from the name, this feature makes it possible to restart the Mac into just the Safari browser and nothing else.

Comment Re:Am I reading this correctly? (Score 1) 417

by Phopojijo (#35344820) Attached to: Apple Asks Security Experts To Examine OS X Lion
So... if Apple has a list of publicly known security flaws that can own the machine and they wait 'til they get 1/4 gigabyte patches to bother fixing them... and they don't get infected with a virus... how is it anything BUT lack of interest and obscurity that saved them? You're forgetting that most virus attacks are for Botnets and Spam Email where the goal is to reach tens-to-hundreds of thousands of machines before it's profitable. Spearphishing just isn't popular.

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