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Grand Central and OpenCL bring some significant speed improvements to the Mac
Hardmac reports on some testing done by Christophe Ducommun, developer of DVD creation software Moviegate. When optimizing his app to take advantage of Grand Central and OpenCL, the speed improvements were remarkable. For what its worth, the following test was done on 2007 quad core 2.66 Ghz Mac Pro with a GeForce 8800 GT. Snow […]
Continue reading...Apple releases source code to Grand Central Dispatch under open source license
Saturday, September 12, 2009
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The recent release of Snow Leopard marks Apple’s first attempt since the initial release of OS X to focus almost exclusively on under the hood system performance and take a breather from a rapid infusion of marketable features. One of the more significant under the hood improvements in Snow Leopard is Grand Central Dispatch, a […]
Continue reading...Tuesday Afternoon Link Bonanza
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Rolando 2 gets another great review – TouchArcade Apple to pass Nokia in smartphone marketshare by 2013 – Electronista Apple officially chooses North Carolina for site of Data Center – Charlotte Observer Snow Leopard in Depth: Grand Central Dispatch – The Apple Blog Why Apple could kill your Camera – Forbes AT&T wireless trails others […]
Continue reading...Next iPhone likely to support dual-core processor
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
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ARM has provided a little bit of information which suggests that the next iPhone model will sport a dual-core processor. The current iPhone 3G S uses a single-core Cortex A8, whereas the upcoming Cortex A9 will “shrink the manufacturing process” from 65 nanometers to 45 nanometers. This extra space will allow room for another core, […]
Continue reading...Report: Snow Leopard won’t be ready before September, will support Blu-ray?
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Hardmac is reporting that Snow Leopard will most likely see a release date sometime in September at the earliest. They note that Apple still has a considerable amount of fine tuning left to do on underlying core technologies such as Quicktime X, Open CL, and Grand Central. The public at large will most likely get […]
Continue reading...Is Apple working on an iPhone with multi-core chips?
Thursday, February 5, 2009
IntoMobile has an interesting article detailing a few reasons why it thinks Apple’s next gen iPhone will include customized multi-core chips. The next major overhaul of the iPhone platform might just see the iPhone coming into its own as a graphics-savvy gaming platform. Apple has been confirmed to have licensed PowerVR graphics technologies from Imagination […]
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
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