ATI today is announcing its new Stream transcoding paradigm, and unlike some others, it makes quite a bit of sense. Stream now parses workloads between the CPU and the GPU, and does things much more intelligently.

There's a lot of fake news going around about the upcoming GPUish chip called the GT300. Let's clear some air on this Larrabee-lite architecture.

AMD and ATI are now one, officially. Word is that there will be a sweeping reorg to be announced later today, and the two organizations will be merged.

It looks like Nvidia engineering is getting right back into its old fighting form once again. The GT300 chip is delayed until 2010, and the GT21x parts seem to be MIA.

It looks like Ubuntu for Linux release 9.04 is out. Best of all, it's free, stable, and contains no forced malware.

Western digital has launched a 2TB enterprise HD. If you think that's big, it has a 64M cache to back it all up too.

The HDMI licensing body just certified a rather nifty HDMI cable by the unfortunately named Torrent, Inc. It has a built in diagnostic light and locking connectors.

AMD has updated its laptop roadmap, but don't expect major changes in what you see until the end of 2010.

At GDC a few days ago, AMD dropped a bomb on the GPGPU world by announcing a GPU-accelerated Havok implementation.

CEBIT always has odd but cool things to show off, and this year one of them was a multi-rotor stable RC camera platform. There were three of them, think military drones but smaller and without the missiles.

Last August, we said that Nvidia would not introduce an x86 part at the spectacularly successful Nvision show. We also said they would have to be mighty stupid to try to make one, and guess what, we were right again.

They repainted the globe too

In its latest report on netbooks entitled 'Intel Atom: Netbook, Opportunity or threat?', UBS has some interesting information on the IALP/Atom roadmap. The outfit also does not think netbooks will be a net win for Intel.

Nvidia was responsible for almost half the Vista crashes reported to Microsoft in in a graphics-related crash report.

The AMD platform gets a big boost in the form of external GPUs, and a stunning Cinema 2.0 demo that had us impressed.

Bigger is better when it comes to screens, and now this 56in monster is claiming the crown for most impressive monitor on show.

The new mobile chip has been named, and it's looking impressive, though non-Intel users will still probably forgo battery life.

It's called the FunFab, and it's a digital photo frame with a printer inside. Your friends like what they see? Just print them off a photo.

ATI has a new weapon in the battle for the title of kingpin-of-all-game-graphics - it's the 7xx series.