The latest version of Intel's Media SDK open sourced a key component of the QuickSync pipeline that would allow the open source community to begin to integrate QuickSync into their applications (if you're not familiar with QS, it's Intel's hardware accelerated video transcode engine included in most modern Core processors). I mentioned this open source victory back at CES this year, and today the HandBrake team is officially announcing support for QuickSync. The support has been in testing for a while, but the HandBrake folks say that they expect to get comparable speedups to other QuickSync enabled applications. No word on exactly when we'll see an official build of HandBrake with QuickSync support, although I fully expect Intel to want to have something neat to...
VIA Apollo Pro 133A with Dual Processors
For quite a while, Intel was the only manufacturer of mainstream chipsets that also offerred dual processor (SMP) capable chipsets. Well times are changing and after successfully stealing...
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0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/27/2000Intel Celeron 700
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0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/26/2000AMD Duron
The next piece of AMD's processor puzzle is here, the Duron. While intended to be a member of their value line of desktop processors, we confirmed what everyone...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/19/2000AMD Athlon "Thunderbird" 1 GHz / 800 MHz
For the past few months, Intel has enjoyed the advantage of high speed, on-die cache on their fastest CPU's, while AMD suffered with ever decreasing cache speeds as their...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/4/2000Intel Pentium III 933
Two months after the release of the 1GHz Pentium III, Intel is back to fill the gap with the release of their 933MHz part. Read on as we...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/24/2000AMD's 2000 Roadmap - The Facts
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0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/29/2000Intel Pentium III 866, 850
Less than two weeks after the release of their 1GHz Pentium III chip, Intel is playing catch-up with the release of the 866 and 850MHz parts. For an...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/20/2000Intel Pentium III 1GHz
Just two days ago we took a look at AMD's 1GHz Athlon. Today Intel is responding with a Pentium III clocked at 1GHz. Which will be available...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/8/2000AMD Athlon 1GHz, 950MHz, 900MHz
The Magnolia has arrived. Just three months ago we were gawking over a system that cooled the Athlon down to -40C in order to reach the magic frequency...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/6/2000VIA Apollo KX133 Athlon Chipset - Part 2
A few weeks ago we took a look at VIA's recently released KX133 chipset for the Athlon. Now that motherboards are finally shipping with this chipset, we took...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/24/2000AMD Athlon 850
AMD continues the clock speed battle with Intel by releasing their 850MHz Athlon. This time around they are armed with a new weapon, VIA's KX133 chipset, which helps...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/14/2000VIA Apollo KX133 Athlon Chipset - Part 1
Originally slated to be released alongside the Athlon, VIA's KX133 is finally on its way to a motherboard near you. With a handful of advantages over the original...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/7/2000