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Stories about: Grand Central

Apple Open-Sources Grand Central Dispatch Recent reports reveal that Apple has chosen to open-source its multiprocessor task-management technology – Grand Central Dispatch. Grand Central Dispatch takes full advantage of new, powerful hardware by making all the components of Mac OS X multicore-aware. Thus, the technology optimizes resources for allocati... 28 September 2009 02:51 GMT Snow Leopard Improvements Announced and That Should Be Added by Apple Apple has already told everyone that it does not intend to deliver any new features in the Snow Leopard package, and although the new OS will focus mainly on performance enhancements, one should still wait for its launch. That is the thing to do if you are already using Leopard and you want to see how its bigger brot... 31 January 2009 05:01 GMT Apple Seeks Trademark for Grand Central Apple has filed a new application with the US Patent & Trademark Office for Grand Central, Apple's new technology used by Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) to handle multiple processing cores. Snow Leopard is the latest iteration of the Mac OS, slated for release in the first half of 2009. Thanks to the eagle-eyed f... 11 December 2008 09:38 GMT