Nvidia boss: Windows 8 will run Windows Phone 7 apps
Nvidia has been outlining a future that sees a Qualcomm/Nvidia duopoly providing processors for every computing platform, which will share apps as well as chips.
Nvidia's CEO has been briefing journalists, including C-Net's Roger Cheng, pointing out that the company's Tegra chipsets are already powering half of the Android smartphones, and 70 per cent of tablets, and are looking forward to getting radio signal processing integrated too. But the CEO also made clear his belief that applications developed for Windows Phone 7 would find themselves happy running on Windows Desktop 8. Read more...
AMD pledges sharper graphics with new Fusion chips
Advanced Micro Devices has promised a boost in video and graphics performance from its first Fusion processor aimed at the mainstream PC segment, which will go on sale in laptops later this month and desktops soon after, AMD announced Tuesday.
The new A-Series Fusion chip combines a quad-core CPU on the same silicon die as a DirectX 11-capable GPU and a dedicated chip for video encoding and decoding. That makes it well suited to tasks like video playback, gaming, and video and photo editing, AMD said. Read more...