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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. Eh. Audio innovation is dead, baby by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The last truly inovative audio chipset was the Aureal au88x0 series, and what happened to them? Creative sucked them up and did nothing with their technology; even their "top end" Audigy 2 doesn't do positional 3D audio.

    As far as the consumer is concerned, audio technology is at a plateu and it's good enough for what they're using it for. The only thing that changes in the audio hardware world are the damn hardware programatic interfaces; there are more audio chipsets than modern video cards and NIC's combined.

  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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