Sony announces PSP 2, aka NGP

Sony has unveiled a new addition to the PlayStation franchise. Coupled with the Xperia Play it looks as though they really want to push mobile gaming still.

The new PSP (codenamed NGP - Next Generation Portable - although as above, branded PlayStation) will not feature a UMD drive - but unlike the PSP Go which relies purely upon downloaded games, the NGP will use micro SD cards, preloaded with games, and space reserved for save game data.

Sony are calling it out as having great integration with the PS Suite for Android, which is flying along nicely with the Xperia Play - allowing non PS branded phones to get in on the action.

It features a quad core ARM CPU - the Cortex A9, along with a new and improved GPU: SGX543MP4+. Attracting most attention will be a 5" 960x544 multitouch OLED and dual analogue nubs, without the Go's silly slide out mechanism.

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Nvidia entering desktop CPU market

At CES this year, nVidia announced their "Project Denver" plans to move in to the desktop and server CPU business.

They already have the Tegra line of mobile device CPU/GPUs - but in this latest stunt, nVidia will be launching Cortex-A15 based CPUs for the desktop market, with their ARM license.


This plays nicely in time with Microsoft's CES announcement to extend Windows compatibility into ARM architectures.


The A15 will be combined with a GeForce GPU to directly take on Intel's GMA enabled processors (H series chipsets), and AMD's "APU".

Droid Does Rubix Cube. In 24secs - on a Lego rig.

Wow. In a word, just wow.


Not only have they created a pretty sweet Lego rig to actually carry out the mechanics of the operation, they've also done all the programming stuff to get the Droid running the algorithms, and combined the two for a pretty nifty time of 24.02 seconds to solve a Rubix Cube.


Watch the awesome video after the break.