18.10.2008 02:06 Uhr, Quelle: 9to5Mac

On MacBooks, Nvidia, OpenCL and Snow Leopard

There appears some fuss and bother over the inability of the MacBook Pro (not pictured, incidentally) to harness the power of both its installed graphics processors simultaneously, but these complaints are missing a crucial point. Inclusion of the Nvidia's powerful GeForce 9400M isn't just a performance enhancing move, but a critical future-proofing step. It is manufactured using the 65-nanometre process - comparison - a human hair is about 100 micrometres thick, over a thousand times thicker than the structure used in the GPU. (There's a nice - but old - description of silicon manufacture right

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