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Future iPhones to wield OpenCL acceleration
Imagination Technologies has posted a series of job openings for OpenCL engineers, indicating that the open, general purpose GPU parallelism technology Apple spearheaded for use in Mac OS X Snow Leopard is destined to also play a significant role in boosting embedded graphics and video ...
Google, Apple, Microsoft sued over file preview
macworld.com — by Robert McMillan , IDG News Service A small Indiana company has sued tech heavyweights Microsoft, Apple,... and Google, claiming that it holds the patent on a common file preview feature used by browsers and operating systems to show users small ... (more) Google, Apple, Microsoft sued over file preview
Notebook PC Sales Outpace Desktops: Good News For Apple (AAPL)
Notebook PC Sales Outpace Desktops: Good News For Apple (AAPL)
alleyinsider.com — Notebook computer sales outpaced desktop PC sales for the first time last quarter, according to research firm... iSuppli. Worldwide, PC companies shipped 38.6 million notebook computers in Q3, up almost 40% year-over-year. Desktop PC shipments grew ... (more) Notebook PC Sales Outpace Desktops: Good News For Apple ...
Google, Apple, Microsoft Sued Over File Preview
pcworld.com — A small Indiana company has sued tech heavyweights Microsoft, Apple, and Google, claiming that it holds the... patent on a common file preview feature used by browsers and operating systems to show users small snapshots of the files before they are ... (more) Google, Apple, Microsoft Sued Over File Preview
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OpenCL May Be Coming To an iPhone Near You
Mac|Life all RSS Feed — [image] With all the hype surrounding OpenCL, it’s no wonder that the buzz has moved on to the integration of the new technology for the iPhone. Imagination Technologies has advertised a multitude of job openings for OpenCL engineers and programmers, which only leads us to believe that the technology used in the new Snow Leopard will be a part of Apple’s future handheld devices. Imagination’s interest in hiring OpenCL developers means that the product is incredibly relevant to mobile developers, especially since the company has worked on graphics acceleration before. Not ...

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