Essential linkage: There's interesting stuff afoot at Intel's Developer Forum in San Francisco - keep up with it!
Sadly, we don't have our own dude-on-the-ground at the latest if Intel's Developer Conferences, but we know a publication that does... and thankfully, it's our sister mag PC Authority!
Zara Baxter, who is no stranger to Atomican audiences, is over there and posting her news updates on the PCA site. So if you want to keep abreast of everything new and Intel, you know what to do. Need any more reason? Here's a teaser:
As an evolution from SSE graphics instruction sets, Intel now has AVX (Advanced Vector Extensions), that perform better with floating point operations - meaning that digital photo editing and similar tasks should get faster. In the demo we saw at the keynote, it seemed that for advanced photo processing and video rendering a 2-5x speed up should be expected. A games demo highlighting some of the power of the new integrated graphics showed off Starcraft running on integrated versus discrete graphics.
As an evolution from SSE graphics instruction sets, Intel now has AVX (Advanced Vector Extensions), that perform better with floating point operations - meaning that digital photo editing and similar tasks should get faster.
In the demo we saw at the keynote, it seemed that for advanced photo processing and video rendering a 2-5x speed up should be expected.
A games demo highlighting some of the power of the new integrated graphics showed off Starcraft running on integrated versus discrete graphics.
And there's much more, up to the minute stuff where that came from. So make your way over to PCA to keep right up to date.
Issue: 137 | June, 2012