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Khronos Group announced today that have already been approved and posted a modern processor of cross-platform, parallel computing programming standards “OpenCL 1.2″, of course, continue to open, royalty-free license. OpenCL release 1.1 eighteen months later, in more than 30 home industry leading enterprise’s efforts, the new version for parallel programming brought more strong performance and function, and realized the backward compatibility.

Khronos also has been updated and expanded the OpenCL comprehensive conformance test program group, to ensure that the implementation of the new rules for cross-platform application development to provide a complete and reliable platform.

Through the following the update and additional items, OpenCL 1.2 significantly increased parallel programming flexibility, function and performance:

Equipment division: make the application may put a equipment to the son of equipment division, direct control special unit task allocation, calculation of storage equipment for high priority/sensitive incubation period of task, or effectively use Shared hardware resources, such as cache.

The link editor and independent objects, and promote the traditional editor of the performance and flexibility to create OpenCL library, used to link with other programs.

Stronger image support: including the 1 D image and 1 D & 2 D image array of extra support. At the same time, the sharing of OpenGL extended now realizes from OpenGL 1 D texture and 1 D & 2 D texture array of images to create OpenCL function.

The built-in kernel represents a special or not programming hardware and linked to the firmware, such as video encoder/decoder and digital information processor, realized these customized by OpenCL framework drive or equipment and tight integration.

DX9 media surface sharing: to achieve the OpenCL and DirectX 9 or DXVA media sharing between the surface high efficiency.

DX11 surface Shared: OpenCL and DirectX 11 surface for the seamless sharing.

OpenCL working Group chairman, Khronos Group chairman, NVIDIA mobile content vice President Neil Trevett said: “OpenCL working Group very carefully to listen to the developers and users among the feedback information software, and offer for its timely and effective, heterogeneous computing functions across the suppliers to open standards. OpenCL working Group also expanded its members in size, and from mobile industry development to embedded industry, have pushed forward like FPGAs such innovation equipment using OpenCL”.

Khronos Groups as members, AMD Fusion experience programs global vice President Manju Hegde, ARM and the processor department calculated subsystem vice President James McNiven, Intel software and services group vice President and general manager of developers products division Bill Savage, Fixstars company founder and CEO Satoshi Miki also represent respectively their companies expressed OpenCL 1.2 support, including AMD, ARM were clear expression Fusion APU Radeon HD graphics processor, and Mali GPU core, Cortex processor will graphics to join the OpenCL 1.2 support.

China unicom and China mobile said that they plan to offer consumers a SIM card based on the NFC (near field communication) technology. Be responsible for making global NFC standard GSM association said on Tuesday, China unicom and China mobile will support the NFC. Before this, the global has been 43 home mobile operators promise will support based on the SIM card NFC services and products.

Because of China’s mobile registered users as high as 940 million, more than the sum of Europe and the United States, so the popularity of the NFC is very important. China mobile and China mobile has 800 million users in.

The mobile industry in the asia-pacific region is in the lead. GSM association and A.T. Kearney consulting company jointly issued Tuesday report showed that the global mobile registered users at the end of the year will reach to 6 billion, of which half will be located at the Asia Pacific region. The movement of the asia-pacific region registered users to 2015, in the global mobile flow of the than will be as high as 40%. China mobile in the Asia Pacific region registered users, followed by India and Indonesia.

NFC technology can phones into mobile wallet, only need to cellular phone in a special card reader sway once before, can complete the payment.

China mobile has 633 million registered users, is the world’s first big mobile operators. The company said in a statement, capable of large user groups to promote the popularity of the NFC.

China unicom is has 188 million registered users. The company also said in a statement, want to ensure that NFC technology in different between operators interoperate, user-friendly roaming to any place.

Although NFC technology is generally recognized as a safe way to pay, but this technology can increase the users and the car safety, and at the same time help users keep electronic notes and coupons. Operators hope will NFC technology into the SIM card, rather than only install on your phone.

Google has just announced that it is now able to crawl content loaded by asynchronous requests in many situations.

Love it or hate it, JavaScript is rapidly being adopted by developers to improve the usability of the websites that they build. Many high profile websites are using it to perform acynchronous requests after the page has loaded. Google realised that simply reading static content is no longer adequate for providing the most relevant search results for users.

Google has added a post on the Webmaster Central Blog explaining the new functionality and how to take advantage of it. In order to generate an accurate instant previews in search results and to correctly index all content on the page, Googlebot will execute any JavaScript code blocks which send an XMLHttpRequest. While previous workarounds (such as the hashbang hack used by Twitter and Facebook) worked with carefully-crafted GET requests to provide a non-AJAX snapshot of a page to search engines, Googlebot is now able to perform both GET and POST AJAX requests itself. According to the blog post, only automatic requests are currently being executed and not those which are performed as a result of user action.

Just before the announcement, Digital Inspiration noticed that Facebook comments on TechCrunch were being indexed. Prior to Googlebot’s new functionality, searching Google for the content of these comments wouldn’t have returned the article that they were attached to. These changes should also allow other third party commenting platforms such as Disqus to be properly indexed as well.

Note that restricting search engines’ access to any of the files needed to perform the request, such as an external JavaScript file or the file that is actually being opened by the request, will break Googlebot’s ability to index the content. Developers and website owners will need to ensure that their robots.txt is configured correctly and they haven’t left a stray robots meta tag in any required files that is blocking search engines.

Intel has revealed particulars about its DX79SI Extreme Series Sandy Bridge-E motherboard on its website a bit earlier than anyone expected.

According to the product brief, the board will be supporting both AMD Crossfire and Nvidia SLI configurations via three PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots, include eight DIMM slots, two Firewire and 14 USB 2.0 ports, as well as two SATA 6.0 Gb/s and four SATA 3.0 Gb/s connectors. There is no native USB 3.0 support, however, as Intel takes that route via a separate NEC controller to support this feature in two available ports. Also, there are two PCI Express 2.0 x1 slots and still one remaining PCI interface.

Intel will be marketing this board toward “champion gamers” and enthusiasts “who live to push their systems way beyond the limits.” The DX79SI will come Intel’s Extreme Tuning Utility, an Express Installer as well as ESET Smart Security 5 Antivirus.