More on Next Gen iPhone PowerVR and OpenCL
The iPhone can play 3D games and pump out high quality video like almost no other handset on the market, but when you’re not gaming or watching video, when you’re just using apps or doing old-school computing, all that power goes to waste, right?
Well, maybe not for much longer.
PowerVR from Imagination is the graphics and video processor core inside the iPhone (and other mobile devices), and we mentioned earlier in the week that it’s now confirmed Apple is a mega-licensee of the technology moving forward.
Now Apple Insider reports that Imagination is looking for OpenCL engineers.
While OpenGL is the open source competitor to Microsoft’s proprietary DirectX graphics technology (the stuff that drives all those 3D games), OpenCL (Wikipedia link) has recently been open sourced by Apple for leveraging that power for mainstream computing tasks. And Imagination integrating OpenCL means Apple’s desktop OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard might not be their only OS to benefit…
Hello GPU accelerated general iPhone processing! Hopefully this means regular old applications, from data bases to web code processing will soon be snappier, and more powerful.
Um… now please?
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Weee, next iphone is gonna rock
this will really boost the speed of the iPhone significantly, I don’t play that many games on my iPhone and just mostly web surf and watch videos and listen to music so with this all that will be so much faster!
fuck that i want flash and multimedia text messaging first . i don’t get on the Internet because it is 50% flash