...s first workstation processor. HyperTransport is adopted by Agilent, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco Systems, IBM, nVidia , Sun, and Texas Instruments. 2002: AMD acquires Alchemy Semiconductor and its low-powe...
Tuesday, October 07, 2008 10:35
The Tegra chip is shaping up as an important business pillar for Nvidia
as more details are about the system-on-chip (SoC) become available. We
now know that the processing core is based on t
Monday, September 08, 2008 09:18
...lemental Technologies promises to cut that time
dramatically. Using the stream processing power of Nvidia ’s
CUDA-enabled graphics cards, the Badaboom media converter will
transcode video fast...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 18:17
... to keep its traction in the market. 2. Larrabee: Discussing a paper product Nvidia already zeroed in on Larrabee and sent a document questioning Larrabee’s product claims...
Friday, August 15, 2008 17:10
... for Intel if Larrabee would not be competitive with the best of graphics cards at the time of its debut. Nvidia for example, believes that Larrabee needs to be a “killer product” in order to be succe...
Wednesday, August 06, 2008 00:01
...for example, to an AMD mobile platform, which uses components from multiple vendors). Moving towards an Nvidia or AMD/ATI chipset solution certainly could improve Apple’s negotiation position to dri...
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 10:58
Interview - A few weeks ago, we learned how Nvidia is using its PhysX API to
convert PhysX calculations and accelerate them on a GPU. AMD wasn’t
happy and Nvidia was accused of benchmark chea
Monday, July 14, 2008 17:45
Nvidia so far declined to provide any information if and when the
company will consider support the DirectX 10.1 API in its GPUs, a
technology that is integrated AMD’s Radeon cards for some t
Thursday, July 03, 2008 14:18
Graphics card vendor Gainward, previously an exclusive AIB partner of Nvidia , has begun working with AMD and will launch ATI Radeon HD GPU-based products soon, according to market sources. Initi
Tuesday, July 01, 2008 10:03
Analyst Opinion - For the last several weeks, Nvidia has been at war
with Intel over a statement of one of Intel’s engineers made at IDF
suggesting that GPUs could soon be obsolete. The
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 01:00
Nvidia unveiled some interesting data about its progress on CUDA and GPGPU-enabled processors. During the Nvidia Editor's Day Spring 2008, the company’s CTO disclosed that more than 70 million CUDA-e
Friday, May 23, 2008 12:22
...f Intel’s most secretive product developments today that is expected to put the company head-to-head with Nvidia /AMD in the graphics arena. Larrabee is currently scheduled to debut in the second half...
Thursday, May 22, 2008 09:48
...ng the chips. However, our sources at TSMC explained that Microsoft has the same production philosophy as Nvidia : Wait for a manufacturing process to mature and then run the initial wafer order. Appar...
Friday, May 09, 2008 16:00
...12 MB L3 cache. Both processors will be built in 45 nm. At least at this time AMD does not anticipate any Nvidia chipsets to support this platform and says that it will couple the CPU with its own RD8...
Wednesday, May 07, 2008 15:04
Interview - Intel will soon be extending its product portfolio into
visual computing. And while Nvidia isn’t publicly admitting that Intel
is an increasing threat to the company, we know that
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 01:00
...rete graphics card in the 2009/2010 timeframe. The simple message is that Intel will be taking on AMD and Nvidia in the high-end graphics market, but the key difference to its rivals will be the use o...
Monday, March 17, 2008 16:20
...asses DirectX as well as the graphics pipeline. For example, you can write a render in CUDA and run it on Nvidia hardware, bypassing all of their rasterization and everything else. All a software ren...
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 09:18
...bsp; The manufacturer opted to continue to use the old motherboard, while the graphics subsystem will be Nvidia ’s Quadro NVS 210S, a decent entry-level card for the multi-monitor era. One of th...
Saturday, February 16, 2008 13:38
Nvidia 's recent introduction of the APX 2500 applications processor indicates that the company is getting serious about its offerings in the smartphone market. However, the company faces stiff competi
Friday, February 15, 2008 05:56
If you have been wondering how Ageia's PhysX SDK fits into Nvidia ’s product range, the answer is actually very simple: The PhysX SDK will be translated into CUDA and, as a result, PhysX will be com
Thursday, February 14, 2008 16:37
...ion. This engineer earned his spot in the industry while working for National Semiconductor, Vadem, SMSC, NVIDIA , Netcell and Chartered Semiconductor Corporation. Over the last few years, he'...
Monday, February 11, 2008 14:09
...nd that Ageia in fact was serious about selling the company and since yesterday we know that the buyer is Nvidia . The question is: Does this purchase make sense for Nvidia ? Santa Clara (CA) - In Dece...
Tuesday, February 05, 2008 10:20
Nvidia announced that it will acquire Ageia, maker of physics accelerator chips and cards. Santa Clara (CA) – Nvidia announced that it will acquire Ageia, maker of physics accelerator chips and
Monday, February 04, 2008 20:59
...attle of the CES booths Hybrid SLI to promote motherboard/graphics card bundling in new Nvidia Additive Brand strategy Asustek showcasing new notebooks ...
Friday, January 11, 2008 08:00
... this potentially landscape altering buyout idea? Two companies immediately lept to our mind: Nvidia and Samsung. Some people might first think of IBM, but the relationship IBM has w...
Friday, December 14, 2007 14:48
Nvidia is ready for its next-generation GPU launch. According to sources at graphics card makers, the company plans to launch its GeForce 9 series GPU after the Lunar New Year in February. More here
Friday, November 30, 2007 08:29
Microsoft is set for its latest acquisition, a mobile music provider called Musiwave. Redmond (WA) - Microsoft is set for its latest acquisition, a mobile music provider called Musiwave. Musiwave is
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 08:09
...ash; 3.0 GHz). The base configuration comes with the E4400, 512 MB of memory, a 250 GB SATA hard drive, Nvidia ’s NVS290 workstation graphics card as well as Solaris 10 as operating system for ...
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 01:01
Nvidia 's G92 mid-range graphics chip is provisionally set to launch on November 12 this year, while the launch date of the entry-level G98 still remains unknown, according to sources at graphics c
Thursday, August 30, 2007 09:01
Nvidia 's first Intel platform IGP (integrated graphics processor) chipset GeForce 7050 nForce 630i (MCP 73) was originally scheduled to launch in May this year, but with the chipset still in the p
Tuesday, June 26, 2007 08:58
Nvidia today announced Tesla, a third product line next to the GeForce and Quadro graphics products. The company aims to use Tesla cards and the massive floating point horsepower of its graphics proc
Wednesday, June 20, 2007 14:20
...op PCs. The new products from Intel would be positioned as direct competitors to AMD's ATI Radeon and Nvidia 's GeForce series of cards. More here at Digitimes. Read all news from Comp...
Thursday, June 07, 2007 00:55
...chipset for the Turion processor. AMD now can offer graphics chipsets through the acquisition of ATI, but Nvidia remains in place as a second chipset supplier. Industry sources indicate that AMD is ...
Thursday, May 03, 2007 07:46
Nvidia isn’t sitting still as AMD is preparing to reclaim the performance crown for graphics cards later this month. The company plans to crash AMD’s R600 party with a new high-end versio
Wednesday, May 02, 2007 09:15
... Pentium D series, while it leverages the superior Core series to rake in the big bucks. On the GPU side, Nvidia currently has a big lead and cashes in on the fact that the R600 GPU is late. According...
Thursday, April 19, 2007 22:46
...MD aim to battle for the lion’s share of the market of the graphics market, what does that mean for Nvidia ? Yes, both AMD and Intel say that there will always be a market for discrete graphics. ...
Friday, March 30, 2007 15:28
...he high-volume mainstream market of desktop PCs and position the chipset as a product that is superior to Nvidia chipsets. Sunnyvale (CA) – AMD today announced its RS690 chipset which is not onl...
Tuesday, February 27, 2007 23:15
Nvidia reported solid financial results for the fiscal fourth quarter 2007 ended on January 28. Fueled by strong sales in the desktop and notebook segment, revenues surged 39%, profits climbed by 68%
Tuesday, February 13, 2007 19:54
...-like floating point engines and AMD will be taking the GPU-based "stream processing" approach. Nvidia will be another competitor in that field: The company is just about ready to release a ...
Sunday, February 11, 2007 14:00
...t is set to introduce its first DirectX10 graphics chip codenamed "R600," which will go head-to-head with Nvidia 's GeForce 8800 series. DirectX 10 will be supported by AMD chipsets later in 2007, the ...
Thursday, December 14, 2006 16:25
This year's hot trend in web hosting is grid computing, which employs server clusters to bring the advantages of enterprise-level infrastructure to affordable web hosting plans . As with any tre
Friday, October 20, 2006 19:12
...mpany has been focusing on enthusiast and high-end motherboards and has maintained close cooperation with Nvidia and ATI Technologies. On that basis, DFI has no plans to withdraw from the motherboard ...
Wednesday, September 27, 2006 14:26
With availability of the GeForce Go 7700 graphics processing unit (GPU), Nvidia has beat ATI Technologies to the punch in the 80 nm manufacturing process. With availability of the GeForce Go 7
Monday, September 18, 2006 14:00
...l right now is focused around availability, referring to his company's "super-strong" lineup of parts for Nvidia chipset-based motherboards as well as Socket AM2. "You can't always say that for Intel,...
Friday, August 18, 2006 19:13
If you wondered about Nvidia 's business options once ATI has been acquired by AMD, here's one idea: High-end graphics. Boston (MA) - If you wondered about Nvidia 's business options once ATI has be
Tuesday, August 01, 2006 17:52
...nd graphic-centric performance," AMD said in an early statement. An interesting twist to the deal is that Nvidia , which has been one of AMD's most important chipset partners in the past, will now beco...
Monday, July 24, 2006 12:01
...sktop PC, which unmistakably targets the high-end. The system not only will be Intel's first to ship with Nvidia 's GeForce 7900, but will be available in an SLI configuration with two 7900s on-board. ...
Tuesday, July 11, 2006 14:41
Nvidia has revised its product roadmap, due to continued strong demand for AGP-based systems and Intel's ongoing shipments of 865 chipsets, sources at Taiwan motherboard makers indicated.
Tuesday, June 20, 2006 14:57
In what will be recorded as a milestone event in the history of AMD, Dell yesterday stated in its quarterly conference call that it will be offering AMD Opteron processors in future high-end server m
Friday, May 19, 2006 15:11
And then there were two...With the introduction today of a new "Get Ready for Windows Vista" Web site, Microsoft pared down its Vista compliance tiers, trimming some of the confusing language, and re
Thursday, May 18, 2006 18:46