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SoundStorm 2: SoundStorm Strikes Back?

Posted by Hemos on from the the-battle-of-the-battles dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Phoronix, a popular Linux-based hardware review site, has posted their beliefs on what they feel is the returning of NVIDIA's SoundStorm Technology. Even though sites have said SoundStorm is dead, Phoronix continues to believe otherwise about this long-discussed situation. They contend NVIDIA is currently working on a new generation of APUs for its upcoming Chipsets and they feel one of the audio technologies may be SoundStorm! The article can be read here, but it looks like only time will reveal if new audio features are being brought fourth in the new Chipsets."

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  1. "Dead"? Did you read the link? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    "While we have chosen to not include the SoundStorm APU in our current nForce4 MCP, we look forward to including our audio technology in future NVIDIA products."

    That's hardly dead, especially when that article if from nearly a year ago. A year is a huge timespan in computing.

  2. SoundStorm isn't a technology! by MarcoPon · · Score: 5, Informative
    SoundStorm isn't a technology, or a piece of hardware.

    It's a "certification", a label that attest that the hardware follow certain specs and offer certain features (number and type of I/O connections, for example).

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  3. Re:Eh. Audio innovation is dead, baby by Taladar · · Score: 4, Informative

    I believe what he meant was that the card manufacturer was cheap and used one physical input for both mic and one of the speaker channels.

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  4. Re:Eh. Audio innovation is dead, baby by Quarters · · Score: 4, Informative
    The Audigy 2 hasn't been Creative's "top end" card for a while now. The Audigy 4 was introduced quite some time ago.

    The Audigy 4 has recently been surpased by the X-Fi. It's an entirely new architecture, both hardware and software.

    Creative's EAX has been doing positional 3D audio with occlusion and reverberation for quite a while now. The Aureal was nice, sure, but Creative has had, and has, tech that accomplishes the same thing.