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1. TG Daily: A readers' Guide

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

   Monday, 26 October 2009

   ... and against Linux, or even slavering supporters of Nvidia against ATI. So here's a tip: If we run a story that praises a company currently on your List Of Death, we're not getting at you personally and ...

2. LucidLogix boosts GPU gaming with Hydra 200 parallel processor

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 28 September 2009

   ... LucidLogix representative Nir Cohen told TG Daily. "But we are like the United Nations when it comes to GPUs. The Hyrda 200 creates neutral territory for Nvidia and ATI, enabling the cards to peacefully ...

3. What's at the heart of HP’s Laptops and Lenovo’s Best Student Tablet

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

   Tuesday, 15 September 2009

   ... This will ship with Windows 7 starter edition and cost a hair under $400.   The HP Mini 311  has the larger 11.6” screen and NVIDIA Ion graphics with HDMI and VGA out.   This is for ...

4. The death of the netbook

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

   Wednesday, 01 July 2009

   ... with the introduction of technologies like Nvidia Ion, that performance disadvantage has started to flip into a performance advantage.   If you haven’t tried one of these puppies, check them out. ...

5. Lenovo and NVIDIA announce ION optimized netbook

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 26 May 2009

   Lenovo has introduced a netbook that reportedly delivers "up to 10 times faster graphics performance than today's small laptops." The IdeaPad S12 features NVIDIA's ION graphics processor, along with ...

6. Nvidia releases CUDA 2.2 with Windows 7 support

   (Software/Software Features)

   Friday, 08 May 2009

   Nvidia today released version 2.2 of its CUDA software development platform, which allows programmers to create multithreaded GPGPU applications that run on GeForce and Tesla cards.Santa Clara (CA) ...

7. Acer Revo: The perfect desktop for an imperfect world

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

   Wednesday, 08 April 2009

   ... at the same time. In addition, the best performance parts for a product for this mixed up market comes from Intel which has the Atom platform, and Nvidia, which has Ion. The problem is that Intel hates ...

8. Couple sues over their slow Vista PC

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 30 March 2009

   ... constantly freeze or crash when they tried to run Vista Home Premium. The Aspire 4520-5458 notebook, which the Wolphs purchased for $586 from Wal-Mart, included 1GB of RAM and an Nvidia GeForce 610M integrated ...

9. Apple tax on the latest Mac gear: 40 percent

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 05 March 2009

   ... other important factors such as increased default memory, better disk speeds and new Nvidia GPUs that deliver up to five times better graphics performance. All these factors combined positively affect ...

10. Updated Mac desktops arrive March 24, as does a "pleasant surprise"

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 02 March 2009

    ... and Nvidia'sGPUs, along with the DisplayPort interconnect with HDCP copy-protection technology. This doesn't mean Apple doesn't have a wildcard up its sleeve. On the contrary, sources mention a "pleasant ...

11. Nvidia is dead serious about low-cost PCs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 11 February 2009

    Nvidia took another important step to play an important part in the sub-$400 and sub-$300 PC game: The company announced that it received Windows Vista certification for its ION platform and promises ...

12. 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 ...

13. Review: Internet Explorer 8 improves with age

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 28 January 2009

    ... the test in IE 8 RC1 seem to include some of those most often used by popular websites. The following Benchmarks were run on an HP Satellite P-25 Laptop, P4 2.8 GHz (dual-core), Nvidia GeForce ...

14. CES 2009: HP to launch series of low cost computers

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 06 January 2009

    ... state of the art gaming specifications among which are a quad-core Intel Core 2 processor of up to 2.83 GHz, 4GB of DDR2-800 memory, and dual Nvidia GeForce 9800S video cards each packing 1GB of GDDR3 ...

15. It's time to dump soft limitations

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Friday, 02 January 2009

    ... which prevent us from getting really exciting machines. Recently, Nvidia developed its Ion platform. It works with Intel's Atom CPU and is based on Nvidia's MCP79 chipset. This powerhouse solution ...

16. 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 ...

17. Nvidia updates CUDA, adds Tesla support for Windows Vista

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 21 December 2008

      Nvidia has released a new version of its CUDA platform that exploits the GPGPU capabilities of its graphics processors. There are no new features, but the SDK now supports added support for Windows ...

18. Computers: Changing from power to experience

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Sunday, 23 November 2008

    ... smoking triple-card Nvidia-based system running Core I7 and while I missed the flash drives I was blown away by all of the performance. But is technology really all about performance? Analyst Opinion ...

19. Dell refreshes iMac clone XPS One

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 30 October 2008

    ... 320 and 750 GB, 4 GB of memory and an Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT graphics chip. The system is available in midnight gray or pure white, which represents the XPS One 24 (PRODUCT) RED version. Prices start ...

20. AMD rolls out sub-$150 Radeon HD 4830

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 23 October 2008

    AMD announced today a sub-$150 ATI Radeon HD 4830 card positioned against Nvidia's GeForce 9800 GT. It has 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 memory, full support for DirectX 10.1, CrossFire, and claims better gaming ...

21. Apple cashes in on iPhone, leaves ‘junk’ to others

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 21 October 2008

    ... when Sun has a current market cap of $3.6 billion, Nvidia $4.0 billion and AMD $2.4 billion. Adobe could also be an enticing idea at $14.7 billion.  ...

22. 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 ...

23. Acer rolls out $680 triple-core Blu-ray PC

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 13 October 2008

    ... CPU for less than $100.            The major downside of the AX3200-U3630A is its graphics engine, which is based on Nvidia’s GeForce 8200 IGC. To complement ...

24. 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.         ...

25. Nvidia CUDA 2.0 delivers Photoshop plug-in acceleration

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 22 August 2008

      Nvidia today released the second generation of CUDA, the company’s C-based programming environment that enables developers to tap into GPUs to accelerate their applications. There are several ...

26. Matrox stretches TripleHead2Go to 5040x1050 pixels

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 05 August 2008

    ... is compatible with select (DX10) Nvidia and ATI GPUs running under Windows XP or Windows Vista. According to the manufacturer, more than 250 games currently support the TripleHead2Go screen combination ...

27. Nvidia readies driver ‘Big Bang’ September, brings OpenGL 3.0 and SLI multi-monitor support

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 04 August 2008

    Nvidia is prepping a major driver release that the company is calling “Big Bang II”.  As one can expect from such a lofty name, the drivers bring several improvements including the latest OpenGL ...

28. 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) ...

29. Would you pay $600 for a Matrox graphics card?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 30 June 2008

      Let’s be realistic, the glory days of Matrox and blockbuster graphics cards such as the legendary Millennium are over. But despite the rise of Nvidia and ATI, Matrox is still around and is catering ...

30. Nvidia releases public beta of PhysX driver

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 25 June 2008

    Nvidia just posted a public beta of a driver that sparked quite some controversy in recent days. Version 177.39 is currently the only version to support GeForce PhysX. Nvidia also mentioned that it ...

31. Outrage over physics drivers: Is Nvidia guilty?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Wednesday, 25 June 2008

    Opinion - When we published an article detailing Nvidia's advantage in 3DMark Vantage, we had a good feeling that data might spark some controversy. Using GPU for physics calculation in a CPU benchmark highly ...

32. First ATI Radeon HD 4850 reviews surface

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 19 June 2008

    ... watts. In terms of performance, the 4850 goes head to head with Nvidia’s 9800 GTX (which was dropped to $199 today). Reviews published today indicated that the two GPUs deliver a close race in terms of ...

33. Who needs D-SUB, DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort? USB rocks!

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 20 May 2008

    ... processors and Nvidia/ATI graphics cards) served as PCs. Next Page: Samsung monitors, Sewell USB External Video Card and Conclusion Samsung SyncMaster 940ux SyncMaster 940ux does not differ from ...

34. Ubisoft removes DX10.1 support from Assassin's Creed

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 15 May 2008

    ... concerns of a possible bias against Nvidia, which actually prompts me to reveal that I am running both platforms and this game on Core 2 machines with Nvidia hardware under 64-bit Vista. I do have to ...

35. Gateway ships retail PCs with 64-bit Windows Vista

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 05 May 2008

    ...   The FX7026 comes with a Core 2 Quad Q9300 processor, an “over-clocked” Nvidia 8800 GT graphics card, 4 GB of memory and 640 GB of hard disk space. The system sells for $1099.99 and is positioned ...

36. Nvidia to replace dated GeForce 6/7/8 WHQL drivers next week

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 01 May 2008

    A reader recently contacted us asking about 3DMarkVantage and Nvidia WHQL drivers for his GeForce 8800 GTS 640 MB. He told us that he wanted to run 3DMarkVantage with WHQL drivers, because he did not ...

37. Windows data copy limits exposed, sort of

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 25 April 2008

    ... (Nvidia chipset) processors were passing the tests with flying colors, while machines using an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 or Intel Xeon 3070 processors failed at 760.000 files. A Server 2003R3, Xeon-based ...

38. Nvidia and AMD vs. Intel: A new graphics war that should have been avoided

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Thursday, 17 April 2008

    ... off the table it potentially opened the firm to an incredibly lucrative additional opportunity.   Last week Nvidia’s CEO made clear what many of us had known for some time. There was a war brewing ...

39. The visual computing clash: Nvidia CEO opens a can of whoop-ass for Intel

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 10 April 2008

      Nvidia and Intel are on a crash course: With Nvidia moving its GPUs into potential CPU territory and Intel tuning CPUs to take over GPU territory, you have a classic scenario for a confrontation ...

40. 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 ...

41. 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 ...

42. Tim Sweeney, Part 3: Unreal Engine 4.0 aims at next-gen console war

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 12 March 2008

    ... trends these days? Sweeney: When it comes to the PC, Intel will implement lots of extensions into the CPU and Nvidia will integrate many extensions into the GPU by the time next-gen consoles begin to ...

43. 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 ...

44. 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 ...

45. 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, ...

46. 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 ...

47. More than half a million people sign up for Age of Conan beta

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 06 February 2008

    ... other initiatives, for example Nvidia’s “The way its meant to be played” campaign.   The reception of Windows Vista and DirectX 10.0 in the gaming market has been lackluster at ...

48. Update: Blu-ray and HD DVD support demystified

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 31 January 2008

    ... and, as a result, are often much more tangled up in this HD opinion battle than we’d prefer to. Just as is the case with Apple-Windows PC, Nvidia-ATI/AMD or Intel/AMD, one day you are being accused ...

49. Desktop Lust Update: Looking at the new AMD 4x4 Quadzilla and Intel V8

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Wednesday, 30 January 2008

    ... used two. In addition, I’ve been in production on Windows Vista since launch and my 8800 Nvidia card, despite being one of the first DirectX 10 cards, didn’t like the MMOG I played most often ...

50. 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 ...