The introduction of the A5 chip allowed the iPad (and iPhone) to render graphics seven times faster, according to Apple.

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While there are many advantages to being built around HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, those tools don't excite game developers who need direct access to advanced graphics hardware to render animations smoothly.

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PCs would grind to a halt as they tried to render complicated graphics.

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Your graphics card is required to render the video.

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It can even render 3-D graphics and play video games, not just the dinky ones, either, but the really cool ones with lots of fancy graphics.

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One day, Intel promises, Larrabee will be used to render high-end computer graphics.

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