AMD intros massively parallel tiddler

Profit-making AMD today introduced the ATI Radeon E4690 Mobile PCI Express module (MXM) aimed at graphics-intensive embedded systems. The chippery features a massively parallel programmable architecture on a tiny scale. AMD said the MXM features more than three times the 3D graphics performance of anything before it. The chip designer said it worked with ALT Software to offer an alternative to custom programming by developing a standards-based parallel processing API....