Innovation, that’s what you need
As promised, below is the next instalment of our televisual round-up of the week's events in the technology business.
The agenda was dominated by announcements of technology innovations from the three big processor companies. Intel unveiled a new optical data transfer technology called Avalanche Photodetector and confirmed that it's on track to move its CPU manufacturing process to 32 nanometres towards the end of next year.
NVIDIA persisted with its argument that it brings more to the table than just increasing frame rates on games with further talk about PhysX and CUDA. It also gave us a preview of a piece of technology it will be unveiling early next year called 3D Vision, which is a modern equivalent of the 3d specs experience some of you may remember from the eighties.
Any assumptions that it's totally lost interest in the discrete graphics performance crown were corrected, however, when details of its forthcoming GeForce GTX295 dual GPU card started to emerge.
One of AMD's big announcements at January's CES will be its affordable thin-and-light platforms, codenamed Yukon and Congo. We provided an early insight into how these will manifest themselves in an exclusive interview with AMD VP Pat Moorhead.
Finally, it looks like AMD has no time to waste in bringing out its sub-notebook offering as it was revealed that the netbook category is the one part of the PC industry to continue to show dramatic growth in these recessed times. A study revealed that Acer is now the biggest player in that segment and that we can expect 16 percent of all notebooks sold to be netbooks by 2011.
