Couple of up-coming technology to look forward / Project Natal and AMD Fusion
Microsoft getting a step closer to bridge the gap between virtual world and physical world. The Project Natal is going to change the way we use remote controls. Microsoft has set October dead line for the public release of the much waited project natal.
What is project Natal ?
Its a remote control unit where the user doesn’t have to hold any controller rather his/her/their motions are tracked via a motion scening unit to accept command based on the physical movement of the user.
The one of the very first implementations of the technology is going to be on the gaming platform via Microsoft XBOX 360.
Learn more at the official website of natal -> http://www.xbox.com/en-us/live/projectnatal/
AMD Fusion -- The future is here
Back in 2004 / 2005 range, AMD was booming and their solutions were out performing Intel by miles.
In 2005 AMD began to work in process to acquire the GPU giant ATI, which they were able to settle by 2006.
While Intel answered AMD’s advancement with their Core2 range products, AMD in 2006, right after purchase of ATI, gave us a dream called Fusion. It took AMD 5 years, but the dream is now about to be reality.
What is AMD Fusion ?
In basic, its an attempt to put CPU and GPU in same die.
There are certain work which CPU does good like serial processing where as certain tasks like parallel processing is done best by GPU so putting both the CPU and GPU on same die would mean a cheaper product with lot more processing power for multitasking.
AMD is expected to release the first wave of their Fusion based products by the end of this year.
Learn more -> http://fusion.amd.com/
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