"It's the most wonderful time of the year..." OK, aside from the Polar Vortex as of late, for all us tech junkies it's a special time of year because CES is upon us! This year AMD has unveiled their new chip, Kaveri, and though there was not a lot of new info (no benchmarks publicly available yet), there are a few particularly interesting details.
A while back AMD joined The Document Foundation, offering to help refactor the code for LibreOffice Calc. Essentially what the folks at LibreOffice have accomplished since then is to leverage the hardware found in AMD systems (in particular, the GPU, or in the case of Kaveri, the APU) to do some very heavy lifting. Exactly how much the new hardware and code improved performance was revealed at CES:
