AMD Introduced SSE5 Instruction Set Extensions
Friday, August 31st, 2007
AMD has just announced the new X86 SSE5 (Streaming SIMD Extensions Version 5) instruction-set extensions yesterday for its future product lines. Although the implementation will only take place in year 2009 in its next generation core, codenamed as Bulldozer, but the specification has been released to developer community now. This has marked a meaningful milestone for AMD in the evolution for its processor architecture ahead of its competitor, Intel when defining a new standard for the community. If you recall, Intel has came out with SSE-SSE4 extensions instruction standard for the market since Pentium III to tackle AMD’s 3D Now! capability and now AMD seems to go to release the latest version of SSE5 ahead of Intel.
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10 years ago this day, Princess Diana aka Lady Di was killed in a car crash. At her funeral in Westminster Abbey on 6 September 1997, Elton John, a English pop singer, composer and pianist, sang Candle in the Wind 1997 edition or Goodbye England’s Rose to pay tribute to Diana, remembered by many as Poeple’s Princess. It turns out that the performance by Elton John in Diana’s funeral, where he sang “Candle In The Wind 1997″ in public, was for the first and also the only time in history, and likely to be the final time to hear it sang by Elton John in any public concert, as John swore he would never play that version of the song live again due to the emotion envolved.
Windows Vista has some new security and functional features with superior, elegant and beautiful visual experience, such as Windows Aero Glass Transparency effect, Flip 3D and etc. But to have and enable all these features, there is price to be paid, as there is limitation to the capability of computer on how fast it can run. However, if you feel that your Vista performance is below par and slow, there is some tricks that can help Vista to run faster, other than applying various updates such as 
Sony has confirmed on the discontinuity of its famous 60GB PS3 after the recent price reduction of the SKU (Stock Keeping Unit) early last months. The price cut of $100 has able to boost up the sales for the series significantly. With the announcement, it also means that the PS3 SKU will only left with 80GB series, filling up previous 60GB series’ selling price at $599.
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