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BLOXORS! so far on 5 people have completed the game up to level 35, challenging and fun.

http://www.miniclip.com/games/bloxorz/en/

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http://img2.pconline.com.cn/pconline/0708/28/1091170_28turningsqure.swf

Fake ID rocks!

You havn't been paying attention. Go sit in the corner!

Seriously, the G965 has terrible performance compared to the G945 (GMA 950), even when you take into account the new DirectX9/10 hardware vertex shaders.

Even in 3dmark 05 the "software vertex shader" GMA 950 beats the much beefier GMA 3000, and in the test with Quake 3 you can see how much the switch back to TWO ROPs (GMA 950 had four) hurts overall performance. GMA 900 is a flop under DX9, and it will continue to be a flop under DX10.

And, as always, never forget that the latest onboard graphics chipsets from ATI and Nvidia kick the crap out of GMA 950. Intel has a LONG way to go to produce a good performance embedded graphics solution.

Intel bought up Real3D years ago after fielding the i740 in 1998. They then proceeded to sit on the technology while every other graphics maker developed more impressive improvements and optimizations with each generation.

During this time, Intel has sat on their hands. For example, even though the GMA 900/950 had impressive specs, it was plagued by bad performance decisions (intended to cut costs). The chipset contained 4 hardware pixel shaders, but vertext shaders and T&L were done in hardware. Additionally, Intel declined to offer OpenGL support, instead performing OpenGL acceleration through a Direct3D wrapper (like Windows Vista plans to do).

You must also not forget that, while Intel sat on their laurels, video card manufacturers came up with all soorts of hardware and software optimizations to stay on-top. It was the lack of such optimizations that ultimately killed 'big release' cards like the Savage 2000 and the Matrox Parhelia, both cards with beefy hardware specs. Rewaly, how can you expect anything less from Intel?

While X3000 on G865 looks impressive on-paper, the reality is it performs worse than the GMA 950. How can anyone respect a hardware chipset that performs WORSE than a software solution with half the pipes? While it is true that we won't see the TOP performance of X3000 until DirectX 10 is released, it is pretty telling that in fixed mode the device can't even pull off a win over the GMA 950.

* Do keep im mind that both the ATI and Nvidia's current embedded solutions kick the crap out of GMA 950, and they do so with only two pipelines!

The reality is that Intel sucks at graphics, and they always have. The i740 would have been a mediocre seller, had not Intel sold the chipset for nothing (you could pick up 8MB i740 video boards for 40 bucks back in summer 1998). I wasn't honestly expecting the world, but this is really disappointing.

For the near-term, Intel may improve performance with the G865 once DirectX 10 is released, but I'm not holding my breath. Over the long term, well, that's up to Intel. I hear they recently picked up some old 3dlabs engineers who jumped ship from Creative Labs. So long as Intel doesn't squander them like they did with Real3D, they'll have a future in performance graphics, but that's 3 years down the road at the very least.

A brief description with picture of the chip:
http://www.pconline.com.cn/pchardware/foreline/cpu /0312/258718.html/

A 13-page write-up documenting the tough work and challenges faced by one of the chip scientists (e.g. pipelines/branch-prediction/cache design, packaging, etc...):
http://www.pconline.com.cn/pchardware/foreline/cpu /0312/258719.html/

Interesting bits from those Chinese sites:
- (back in 2003) they're already running Linux on it, with applications such as MP3 audio/mpeg movie playing, Mozilla, OpenOffice, games...
- (back in 2003) Max clock 300MHz, 1-2W power consumption, 1% CPU load for playing MP3, 23% for mpeg movie, SPEC_CPU2000 score of 300
- will reach 1GHz by early 2006
- it will be used in low-cost PC with price RMB1,000
- the 3rd gen of the chip will incorporate multi-core design

A brief description with picture of the chip:
http://www.pconline.com.cn/pchardware/foreline/cpu /0312/258718.html/

A 13-page write-up documenting the tough work and challenges faced by one of the chip scientists (e.g. pipelines/branch-prediction/cache design, packaging, etc...):
http://www.pconline.com.cn/pchardware/foreline/cpu /0312/258719.html/

Interesting bits from those Chinese sites:
- (back in 2003) they're already running Linux on it, with applications such as MP3 audio/mpeg movie playing, Mozilla, OpenOffice, games...
- (back in 2003) Max clock 300MHz, 1-2W power consumption, 1% CPU load for playing MP3, 23% for mpeg movie, SPEC_CPU2000 score of 300
- will reach 1GHz by early 2006
- it will be used in low-cost PC with price RMB1,000
- the 3rd gen of the chip will incorporate multi-core design

Courtesy of Google (loads of hits on WPS Office):

http://www.pconline.com.cn/pcedu/soft/office/wps/1 0307/199035.html

I have the Samsung I300 Smartphone - color palm + phone. Like the Kyocera 6035, it's already obsolete. But, I love it.

Interesting enough, while Samsung is about to release a new smartphone (the I330) that is much like the I300, they have an even newer palm/phone coming out later that is a flip phone like the new Kyocera. Pics here
http://www.pconline.com.cn/digital/textlib/mobile/ m01/10206/69730_1.html
and here
http://www.mobilmania.cz/Mobilnitelefony/Ar.asp?AR I=102483&CAI=2107