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1. SMIC boss falls on his semiconductor sword

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 10 November 2009

   ... designs from so-called "fabless" companies like Nvidia and ATI, and turns them into silicon.  ...

2. TSMC yield problem to affect Nvidia, ATI

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 30 October 2009

   ... has promised to get the problem fixed during the current quarter.Customers using TSMC's process are AMD-ATI and Nvidia, said Digitimes, and that may well have an impact on shipping products such as the ...

3. Apple takes on Microsoft's Zune with FM Radio iPhone app

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Wednesday, 14 October 2009

   ... networking in its latest iPhone and iPods." The introduction of a native iPhone FM radio app could help lure Microsoft fanbois away from the Zune HD. The upgraded device - powered by Nvidia's Tegra processor ...

4. Nvidia and "Starting the Next Age of Personal Computing"

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Opinion)

   Thursday, 01 October 2009

   Column I’m at the Nvidia GPU Technology conference and it suddenly hit me that we are at the forefront of another massive change in the computer industry.   Column I’m at the Nvidia GPU Technology ...

5. SGI introduces Octane III 'personal' supercomputer

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 21 September 2009

   ... Xeon 5500 workstation with advanced NVIDIA graphics and/or GP-GPU card support Nineteen single-socket, Quad-Core Xeon 3400 Nineteen single-socket, Dual-Core Atom  ...

6. AMD takes lead in discrete mobile graphics

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 17 August 2009

   ... of the market, behind Intel on 51.2 percent and Nvidia with 29.2 percent.  It should also be remembered that the vast majority of notebooks come with integrated graphics rather than discrete.  ...

7. Nvidia launches mysterious new GTX 275

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 02 April 2009

   Nvidia today returned to the famous days of graphics card paper launches with the new GTX 275. Rarely have we seen so much confusion about a new graphics card, which has been positioned as a $250-class rival ...

8. Upscale your DVDs to HD quality with GPU-accelerated software

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 01 April 2009

   ... to the massively parallel GPU and Nvidia's CUDA software engine, allowing for real-time conversion and playback with an 80% lower CPU requirement. Fremont (CA) - A company called ArcSoft Inc. has developed ...

9. Who needs Steve Jobs, anyway?

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Friday, 06 March 2009

   ... Mac desktops did not because, with MacBooks, Apple also announced broad shift to Nvidia GPUs and DisplayPort interfaces across the product matrix in addition to a new unibody manufacturing process. ...

10. First Core i7 notebook announced

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 02 March 2009

    ... this year. The Phantom-i7 comes with only one graphics chip, either a 1 GB Nvidia GeForce Go GTX 280M or Quadro FX3700M, and does not have a separate low-power graphics unit which takes over when high-end ...

11. More new OS X Snow Leopard features emerge

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 11 February 2009

    ... timing its Snow Leopard release with the iMac hardware refresh as it is currently believed, then the all-in-one desktop will put Snow Leopard to real use on its rumored quad-core Intel processor and Nvidia ...

12. Why you will upgrade to OS X Snow Leopard

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 05 February 2009

    ... graphics courtesy of Nvidia. With Intel's fully fledged desktop multi-core processors, Nvidia's multi-core GPU and OS X Snow Leopard preloaded to fully exploit this potential of updated hardware, the ...

13. Nvidia bundles Quadro CX with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 21 January 2009

      Yesterday, Nvidia announced a new professional video editing accelerator bundle based upon their Quadro CX platform. Able to encode H.264 videos 4x faster than dual-core CPU, the combo (Adobe Premiere ...

14. UPDATED: Nvidia takes gaming into full-3D with stereoscopic glasses

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 08 January 2009

      Today, Nvidia unveiled 3D Vision for GeForce. Designed to operate wirelessly with high speed shutters and selected 120 Hz frequency monitors, the gaming, photo and movie industry can now go fully 3D ...

15. Acer launches bargain quad-core notebook

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 29 December 2008

    ... at 2.0 GHz by default, but runs at 2.53 GHz in this notebook, according to Acer), 4 GB memory, Nvidia’s 9700 GT graphics chip, a 500 GB hard drive, a Blu-ray disc drive and Windows Vista 64-bit. HP’s 18-incher ...

16. THQ chooses Nvidia's PhysX technology for better gaming

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 19 December 2008

      THQ and Nvidia announced yesterday they've signed an agreement to bring Nvidia's PhysX technology, "the worlds most pervasive physics solutions for designing real-time, real-world effects into interactive ...

17. Update: ATI graphics cards (almost) streaming

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 03 December 2008

    ... has only been released to reviewers at this time. The final version will be posted for download on Dec. 10. We apologize for this error. Catalyst 8.12 essentially represents what Nvidia has been offering ...

18. Microsoft’s Zune phone rumor back again, this time with Tegra

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 24 November 2008

      There are some tech rumors that just won’t go away, one of them being Microsoft’s iPhone killer smartphone. A new report now suggests that Microsoft may be working with Nvidia on a cellphone that ...

19. Five products Apple should build

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Friday, 24 October 2008

    ... computing performance, such as gaming, you won’t buy a Mac. Yes, you may point to the Mac Pro, but this pricey system really appeals to creative professionals, not hard-core gamers. Apple’s recent Nvidia ...

20. OS X Snow Leopard: It’s all about speed

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 20 October 2008

    ... GPU power Snow Leopard will support OpenCL (Open Computing Language) that can unleash all those giga- and teraflops locked up in GPUs and provide them for general-purpose computing. AMD and Nvidia are ...

21. A graphics card just for Photoshop

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 17 October 2008

      Nvidia announced what it describes as “the accelerator for Adobe Creative Suite 4” – a graphics card that is marketed to users that primarily use Adobe applications that support GPGPU acceleration, ...

22. VIDEO – Hands-on with the Fusion-io SSD, 13 World of Warcraft windows in 36 seconds

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 03 October 2008

    ... an Nvidia 8800 series graphics card.  After the folder copy, we doubled-clicked on WoW and it took two to three seconds to open.  Impressive, but opening just one window of WoW is just so boring. ...

23. First Look: Photoshop CS4 with GPU acceleration

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 22 September 2008

    ... 2 Quad Q6600, 3 GB memory, 1 TB HDD, Nvidia GeForce 8500GT) than CS3, which indicates that the program code has been overhauled. Some components, such as image blending, also worked noticeably faster.         ...

24. Overclocking Nehalem “almost as good as having a second graphics card” - Intel

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 20 August 2008

    ... proclaimed that the results from Turbo Boost and traditional will be “almost as good as having a second graphics card.”  Boy I bet AMD and Nvidia will love that comment. Piednoel told us later what ...

25. Nvidia takes a big hit in the second quarter

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 12 August 2008

      The replacement of faulty graphics chips as well as a much stronger than expected AMD/ATI pushed Nvidia deep into the red during the second quarter. The company reported a revenue decline of 23% ...

26. Microsoft to unveil DirectX 11 at XNA Gamefest

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 11 July 2008

    ...   Stay tuned for more details to come. Following the XNA Gamefest, Microsoft, Nvidia and AMD (ATI) are expected to start talking about DirectX 11 at conferences such as Siggraph 2008 (August 11-15) ...

27. ATI readies OEM special: SuperRV770 to challenge GeForce GTX 260, 280

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 30 June 2008

    ... for users. The new boards are actually running at well below the clock speed they can support and there is every reason to believe that these cards will be challenging Nvidia’s very best. Mountain House ...

28. ATI/Nvidia price war takes its toll, Intel seen as savior

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 04 June 2008

      Taiwanese companies are growing increasingly concerned over Nvidia’s and ATI’s market strategies. Both companies seemed to be more interested in making their partners stamp Nvidia ...

29. GPUs deliver mammogram-like breast scans in 20 minutes

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 28 May 2008

      Taking annual mammograms is generally recommended for women with an age of 35 years and above. But these radiology procedures are inconvenient and can actually be painful, since the breast needs ...

30. Adobe: The story of making up a story

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Tuesday, 27 May 2008

      Opinion - Last week, we ran a story on a GPGPU-accelerated version of Photoshop. We were a bit surprised to see the company backtracking over the weekend from the demonstration it gave at Nvidia’s ...

31. Nvidia takes cautious first step into graphics-accelerated mainstream programming

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 19 May 2008

      Back when we first saw the capabilities of Nvidia’s CUDA technology and Tesla acceleration cards, it was clear to us that the company had all the tools necessary to change the way we use computers ...

32. ATI Radeon 4800 launch details: Meet (Terry) Makedon and Trojan (Horse)

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 14 May 2008

    ... after Nvidia’s GT200. TG Daily Exclusive – We previously published several details about AMD’s next-generation graphics card lineup and as we get closer to the launch we are getting more details about ...

33. What it takes to beat the speed of an 8-core Mac Pro by 50%

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 14 May 2008

    ... drive and a DVD burner. Add 12 GB of memory, three 1 TB hard drives and a high-end Nvidia graphics card and you end up with about twice that (display not included). This machine is 49.4% faster than ...

34. Ubisoft caught in a little Assassin’s Creed scandal

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 07 May 2008

    ... for ATI’s Radeon cards over to Nvidia. Did Nvidia have its hands in this one? We looked a bit closer to find out. TG Daily investigates – Amidst talk that the PC’s days as a major gaming platform could ...

35. AMD Puma will not be able to compete with Core 2 Duo, industry sources claim

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 24 April 2008

    ... AMD does not care that much about CPU performance anymore, but rather about the platform performance. This goes in line with Nvidia's efforts, but the reason for this shifted message at AMD might lie somewhere ...

36. Microsoft releases download of Vista SP1

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 18 March 2008

    ... interface was upgraded to DirectX 10.1, which means that you can expect ATI to drum this feature all the way to the bank, especially since Nvidia is launching its GeForce 9800 line-up without the support ...

37. AMD takes a new shot a workstation graphics

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 12 March 2008

    ... about 14.1%, according to iSuppli.    ATI and Nvidia have been fighting over the workstation market, which allows them to sell their (2D tuned) graphics cards for prices of well over $2000 on ...

38. Tim Sweeney, Part 2: “DirectX 10 is the last relevant graphics API”

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 11 March 2008

    ... of writing a rendering engine that runs directly on the GPU and bypasses DirectX as well as the graphics pipeline. For example, you can write a render in CUDA and run it on Nvidia hardware, bypassing all ...

39. Unreal creator Tim Sweeney: "PCs are good for anything, just not games”

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Sunday, 09 March 2008

    ... this would be a really good idea. We always joked that there will come a day when you won't be plugging a graphics card into a computer, but you would connect the computer into an Nvidia box, because they ...

40. Aircraft simulators get multi-GPU graphics horsepower

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 06 March 2008

    When read about Nvidia’s SLI and ATI’s Crossfire technologies these days, we often get the impression that multi-GPU solutions don't make a lot of sense yet. But they aren’t just useful in some games ...

41. Can Singularity heal Microsoft’s Windows Vista wounds?

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 04 March 2008

    ... of exploiting the massive floating point horsepower of graphics chips. AMD and Nvidia have begun pitching their Tesla and FireStream stream processor cards as integral parts of deskside supercomputers, ...

42. Update: AMD's chipset game: Rien ne vas plus

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 04 March 2008

    AMD’s has raised its bet and placed its chips in a cutthroat chipset market: To gain ground on Nvidia and Intel, the manufacturer decided to put a fully-fledged GPU into its next mainstream integrated ...

43. AMD’s Markham labs: Flushing out graphics bugs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 17 February 2008

    ... of motherboards with chipsets and graphics cards. This stage in the developing is, by the way, also vastly different from Nvidia’s fab-less approach, which in fact does not produce physical prototypes. ...

44. AMD's RV670 does double-precision at half the speed

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 01 February 2008

    ... processors and Nvidia's G80 and G90 all 256 units. When AMD launched its most recent GPGPU part, the FireStream 9170, there were a few of questions floating around, especially the one about its capability ...

45. Hybrid SLI to promote motherboard/graphics card bundling in new Nvidia Additive Brand strategy

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 09 January 2008

    Nvidia recently informed its hardware partners of its "Additive Brand" strategy, a new marketing move which takes advantage of the company's recently announced Hybrid SLI technology to help ...

46. Does AMD’s Spider catch Intel’s Penryn in its Web?

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Tuesday, 20 November 2007

    ... out of a good chunk of the market. Advantages to quad-core This doesn’t mean there aren’t reasons to use a quad-core in a desktop computer.  I use an 8-core Intel machine with an Nvidia ...

47. AMD goes against Nvidia’s Tesla with new stream processor card

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 08 November 2007

    AMD has unveiled a new supercomputing-targeted stream processor card that not only is the first of its kind to deliver double-precision capability, but also is tied to new low-level and high-level SDKs ...

48. Nvidia pitches “ESA” to monitor chassis, power supplies, water cooling

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 05 November 2007

    Nvidia takes the lead in a new industry initiative that aims to bring control over the performance of the overall PC chassis, power supplies and water cooling systems to high-end PCs. Santa Clara (CA) ...

49. Scientists use public vacation pictures to create 3D model of an entire city

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 02 November 2007

    Earlier this week, Nvidia introduced the GeForce 8800GT targeting the mid-range enthusiast segment. The performance and the relatively moderate price tag are enticing. However, the problem is that these ...

50. Intel's Skulltrail enthusiast platform running at 5.0 GHz

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 31 October 2007

    ... Interestingly, Intel chose to use Nvidia nForce 100 chips (highlighted in red) for the motherboard.  These provide bandwidth to drive four graphics cards.  Skulltrail will not be limited to Nvidia ...