3月28日
AMD's Imageon Graphics Processor Demonstration

AMD's Imageon chip is a graphics processor (GPU) designed for mobile devices. While the high-end version is not shipping in any Windows Mobile devices at this point, the demonstration I saw was quite impressive. It's challenging to design high-performance GPUs that don't require a lot of power - performance isn't the issue, making your smartphone last longer than 30 minutes while playing a game is the challenge. In researching this product I found that several Windows Mobile Pocket PCs - most notably the Hitachi G1000, the Toshiba E740, and the Pocket PC XDAII - have had one version or another of the Imageon GPU over the years. I was unable to find the model number of the GPU running the demo below, but I suspect it was the Imageon 2298,
announced last month. The hope here, of course, is that technology like this will make it into Windows Mobile smartphones so we can have gaming experiences this fluid and impressive - check out the video for more.