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	Larrabee: A Many Core x86 Architecture for Visual Computing First released at SIGGRAPH 2008, download this 16-page, no-frills technical paper and get a headstart on the model and application possibilities of the new Intel visual computing architecture, code-named Larrabee. [PDF | 2MB]
	Carry Small. Game Large. Do portable games have to be small? Check out this article that answers that very question. Includes free code download so you can test it for yourself. [HTML]
	Better Device Creation for Hardware Acceleration Create the best Direct3D 9 application device possible without long and tedious device ID lists, switching on various SKUs, or other manual and time-consuming tasks. Includes code sample. [HTML]
	Ray Tracing Enters the Spotlight Get the scoop on a 30-year old technique that is currently transforming gaming and animation. [PDF | 900KB]

Videos

	GCDC 08: Optimizing DirectX code for multi-core platforms Intel fellow, Leigh Davies, talks about how today's games still use the CPU quite heavily, forcing developers to exploit and optimize their game code for multi-core systems.
	Ad-Hoc Gaming with Ascaron's Sacred 2: Fallen Angel What is Ad-Hoc Gaming? Heiko Tom Felde of German Gaming Company Ascaron talks the future of mobile gaming with the new Intel Centrino2® processor technology.
	A New Way to Play Multi-Player Games Intel Engineering Manager, Scott Crabtree, demonstrates and discusses a wealth of new technologies that will give MMOGs new life.
	SIGGRAPH: Softimage Presentation of "Ice" at SIGGRAPH Part 1 Mark Schoennagel of Softimage demonstrates XSI's new "ICE" (Interactive Creative Environment), an innovative development environment that lets developers quickly produce the tools that artists need, without the programming burden of writing code.
	SIGGRAPH: Softimage Presentation of "Ice" at SIGGRAPH Part 2 Just like it sounds, here's the 2nd part of Mark Schoennagel's ICE presentation.

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