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  To get full profile OpenCL 1.1 conformance ARM has submitted its Mali-T604 GPU to Khronos in order to get Full Profile OpenCL 1.1 conformance, bringing desktop GPU computing features to the mobile, embedded and smart-TV markets. ARM is actually the first GPU supplier to submit its GPU for Full Profile OpenCL conformance with Khronos, an organization that handles Full Profile and embedded profile OpenCL 1.1 certification. According to ARM, GPU computing is a growing trend that uses the performance of the GPU in order to augment the CPU for certain applications where the GPU is more effective thus providing...

Gigahertz wars in sight Tegra 2 is the only Cortex A9 based dual-core chip that is actually shipping and you can even buy some products based on it. Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 Cortex A9 based dual-core chip clocked at 1GHz is also supposed to ship in Q1 2011 in USA, inside the RIM Playbook Blackberry tablet. It gets more interesting as Texas instrument already announced a faster iteration of the Cortex A9 based dual-core chip, this time clocked at 1.5GHz. The company calls it the OMAP 4440 and it is again a 45nm chip. Just as TI 4430 it...

Microsoft's Ashley Highfield shows Rory Cellan-Jones the mobile operating system's features. Microsoft has launched Windows Phone 7, its latest attempt to break into the lucrative smartphone market. Until now the company has failed to provide a credible challenge to rival operating systems from Apple, Google, Research in Motion and Nokia. Mobile phone operators predict smartphones will have a 70% market share in just three years.Microsoft says it has made Windows Phone 7 more user-friendly, rebuilding the operating system from bottom up.The phone system's experience is built around so-called hubs that aggregate content like contacts, pictures, documents, and music and video....

Product Round-up Unless you spend serious time behind the wheel of your car and regularly need to drive to places you have never been before and couldn't locate on a map if your life depended on it, a satnav application for your mobile phone may well be all the guidance assistance you will ever need. Apart from being cheaper than a standalone PND - Personal Navigation Device, natch - a GPS-equipped phone has the benefit of always being with you when you need it rather than sat in a box at home. I've regularly set off into the wide blue...