When you browse Web pages with extensive use of graphics or moving images, your computer's central processing unit handles all the work in processing and loading the graphics. If you have a high end ...

Gaming on Linux has long been considered one of the most difficult things to do until the addition of Steam Client. As the service progresses, new updates are being released to make the experience ...

We'll make this one short and sweet. Late last week, several outlets reported that Apple had released a new API called the Video Decode Acceleration framework. According to the document: "The Video ...

On Monday, Mozilla will be releasing the latest beta of its new Firefox 4 beta 4, which will bring Windows hardware acceleration and a major interface change called tab sets. The tab sets, formerly ...

Hardware acceleration uses specialized hardware components of your computer to perform certain tasks more efficiently than the system’s main processor (CPU) alone could. This is particularly useful ...

AMD on Wednesday said its Fusion integrated graphics APUs and Radeon discrete GPUs will leverage Internet Explorer 9's built-in hardware acceleration capabilities, which Microsoft showcased on Monday ...