At Siggraph Johan Andersson, Rendering Architect at DICE, talked about the latest version of the Frostbite engine used for Battlefield games. In his presentation Andersson also talks about Compute Shader in DirectX 11 and how Deferred Shading is done using Compute Shader. However, the implementation in Frostbite 2 has only been experimental so far.

There will be two versions of the Frostbite Engine: Version 1.x is used for Battlefield: Bad Company 1, Battlefield 1943 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2. It supports Xbox 360, PS3 and DirectX 10. DICE is working on the Frostbite 2 engine at the moment that will support DirectX 10.1 and DirectX 11 as well. DICE is very proud of the parallelized engine since 2-8 parallel threads are supported for using full capacity of a Core i7 e.g..

Japanese researchers say they can crack the second generation of Wi-Fi security within a minute, according to an article on yahoo.com. WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) was thought to be secure, and has been used since the first generation of Wi-Fi security, WEP, was found to be crackable. This means that you should use the third generation of wireless security standards – WPA2.

The previous method of attacking WPA devices took up to 15 minutes to be successful, and didn't always work. The new method is said to work on far more devices and, obviously, much more quickly. However, as with the old attack, the new one only works on WPA devices that use the TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol) algorithm, which is a setting in your router and device setup. WPA devices that use the newer AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) algorithm, plus devices that use WPA2 — the third generation of wireless security standards — are still safe for now.

Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) has posted consolidated revenues of NT$36.72 billion (US$1.12 billion) for the first half of 2009, a drop of 7% on year, while net profits grew 88% on year to NT$690 million, translating into an EPS of NT$0.57.

For the first half of 2009, the company's notebook shipments were flat at 1.6 million units compared to the same period last year, whereas motherboard shipments declined 22.06% on year to 8.4 million units, the company said. ECS pointed out that inventory was digested smoothly in the first half helping to significantly increase net profits despite unsatisfactory performance in both notebook and motherboard shipments. Currently, ECS's motherboard and graphics cards business accounts for around 30% of the company's revenues, while desktops contribute around 30% and notebooks 40%.

Microsoft Corp plans to slash the price of its high-end Xbox 360 video game console by $100, or 25 percent, stepping up the price war in the video game console market. Effective Friday, Microsoft will drop the price of the Xbox 360 Elite to $299.99 in the United States, just days after Sony Corp cut the rival PlayStation 3 to $299 from $399.

Analysts have said the cuts will pressure Nintendo Co Ltd to lower the price of its best-selling Wii console, which retails for $249, but for now the company is standing firm. “We don't have such a plan,” Nintendo spokesman Yasuhiro Minagawa said when asked about a price cut. Among this generation of game consoles, the Xbox is No. 2 in the United States behind the Wii. But U.S. sales of the Xbox are up 17 percent this year, the only console to show growth.

It’s not the first time an e-tailer has outed a product early. It won’t be the last. It appears that Amazon.com’s German site has listed a 250GB version of the Xbox 360 Elite. It’s a good time to be a gamer, eh? First the PS3 “Slim” and a $100 price reduction, then the corresponding $100 price drop for the Xbox 360 Elite, and now a 250GB Xbox Elite version? The listing is a package deal, including Forza Motorsport 3 for EUR 279.99 or about $402. Since Microsoft’s announcement of the Xbox 360 price cut includes

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The Question: Why using water-cooling? Isnt air-cooling not as well as water? These and other fundamental questions to these two cooling principles, tried our partner tech-review.de to work out. Where are the pros and where are the cons? The answere is in the following review.

NVIDIA has built its brand and reputation as a GPU designer since the company was founded in 1993, but recent comments by the company have implied that it believes platforms like Tegra and ION will be key revenue generators in the future. We’ve previously discussed NVIDIA’s ongoing emphasis on the GPU as a massively parallel processor capable of handling workloads and programs far outside the realm of video games, but to date, reviewers and analysts alike have treated Tegra as more of a side project than a future

One could say the pico projector boom is over, and now we’re seeing a slow trickle of second-gen devices from companies that bothered to stick with the niche. Without a doubt, these expensive, tiny devices never really took off in the mainstream market, but ViewSonic is hoping to catch some eyes with two new ones in its increasingly small range. First we’ve got the PJD2121, which goes down as the company’s smallest DLP projector to date. Weighing just 2.2 lbs., this device packs a DLP engine with BrilliantColor

When a company spells “Extreme” as “Xtreme,” it generally means that whatever product has said label is underwhelming and over-hyped. Not so with Runco’s latest, which deserve every bit of “Xtremeness” given to them. The new VX-33i and VX-33d projectors are less like AV toys and more like investments, with prices so high that you’ll probably not even believe us. Designed for the most affluent of home theater owners, these new beamers promise extraordinary brightness and are specially designed to work with “cinema-sized

Corsair announced a new set of high density products for Intel's Core i5 and Core i7 processors. These DIMMs are available in dual and triple channel configurations and are specifically tuned for Intel CPUs. There was also a “white paper” released with this announcement basically showing that the more memory you have in your system, the faster your system will perform.

Windows 7 early adopters and other power users have recently been demanding 8GB and 12GB performance memory solutions to optimize their computing experience, stated John Beekley, Vice President of Technical Marketing at Corsair. These 8GB and 12GB configurations will allow these advanced users to get the most out of their high performance rigs, particularly if they often switch between demanding tasks like gaming and video production.