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1. Oak Ridge National Labs plans Fermi-powered supercomputer

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 30 September 2009

   Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has announced plans to design a supercomputer powered by Nvidia's next-generation Fermi GPU. The machine - which will be used to research topics such as energy and ...

2. Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Google others sued over patent

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Tuesday, 25 August 2009

   ... Quicklogic, Freescale, Texas Instruments, Google, T Mobile, HTC, Apple, Sony, Ericsson, Sony Ericsson, Philips, LG Electronics, Research in Motion, Motorola, Nokia, Palm, Nvidia, AMD, Dell, AT&T, Verizon, ...

3. Nvidia, Supermicro demo 12x performance hike

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Sunday, 31 May 2009

   Nvidia and Supermicro are showing a new 1U server that delivers 12 times the performance of a traditional quad-core CPU-based 1U server, say the companies.Taipei, Taiwan, Nvidia and Supermicro are showing ...

4. AMD releases Radeon HD 4890 with 1.36 Teraflops

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 02 April 2009

   ... performance in frame rates in various games with traditional high-end settings are showing 23% to 47% greater performance than Nvidia's GeForce GTX 260 216, and performance which is around 10% faster than ...

5. 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 ...

6. 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 ...

7. TSMC sales down 45%, inventory now at 100 day supply

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

   Monday, 19 January 2009

   ... (DOI) supply due to significantly lowered sales. Two of TSMC's major customers, Nvidia and Xilinx, have revised their Q4 revenue down 40% to 50% and 15% to 25%, respectively - which also translates ...

8. Elcomsoft releases GPU accelerated Wi-Fi password cracker, 48x faster

   (Software/Software Brief)

   Thursday, 15 January 2009

   ... Security Auditor 1.0 can operate with or without GPU acceleration, and it supports both Nvidia and ATI graphics cards. To put the power in perspective, a Core 2 Quad Q6600 is capable of trying 1100 ...

9. Macworld 2009: Last-minute rumor round-up

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 06 January 2009

   ... gaming platform and content creation tool. We are sold already.Mac upgrades: Mac minis and iMacs with Nvidia graphics and DisplayPort + HDCPThe Mac mini and the iMac are next in line to receive Nvidia ...

10. Intel increases share in Imagination, counters Apple move

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 22 December 2008

    ... around an ARM processor design and PowerVR or possibly Nvidia graphics. Nvidia also plans to move into the netbook and MID market with its upcoming SoC called Tegra, expected early next year. It will incorporate ...

11. 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 ...

12. Apple expected to refresh its iMac on November 10

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 03 November 2008

      Apple is reportedly planning to update its iMac desktop system on November 10, which may include several hardware upgrades, including Nvidia graphics chips as well as a DisplayPort interface. ...

13. 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 ...

14. 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 ...

15. First USB 3.0 demos at IDF next week?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 13 August 2008

    ... enough that USB 3.0 is off to a good start. We also heard that Nvidia has signed the USB 3.0 agreement. Two weeks ago, the IEEE said that it has approved the IEEE 1394-2008 specification, which increases ...

16. Clearspeed squeezes 96 GFlops out of 12 watts

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 16 June 2008

      Clearspeed has been one of the pioneers in the floating point acceleration arena, a battleground that today also includes Nvidia, AMD and soon Intel as well. Clearspeed’s new CSX700 processor-based ...

17. Intel pitches visual computing power, platform power savings

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 11 June 2008

    ... seamlessly scale from two to eight cores to conduct its accident prevention work without writing additional software code or compilers. At its very core, the programming approach is very similar to Nvidia’s ...

18. Falling dollar, rising energy prices may hit ATI, Nvidia and Sun in Asia

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 29 May 2008

    ... segment - high-end manufacturing. This means that Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Gigabit Ethernet and other controller chips would not see higher prices, but GPUs and processors from AMD (ATI), Nvidia, Sun and Via ...

19. Update: Apple upgrades iMac, gets Intel’s Montevina CPU early, sort of

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 28 April 2008

    ... GB. There are also new graphics card options, including Nvidia’s 8800GS, which is indicated by Apple to transform the iMac into a gaming system. Realistically, this chip has been available in numerous ...

20. 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 ...

21. Nvidia Hybrid SLI on track for a Q1 release

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 18 January 2008

    Nvidia has revealed a few more details about Hybrid SLI, a technology which combines integrated graphics with a discrete graphics card to improve graphics performance and save power. Chicago (IL) – ...

22. 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 ...

23. Sparkle announces GeForce 8600 GT with “Turbo” button

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 15 October 2007

    ... of Nvidia’s reference board with a core clock of 540 MHz, a memory clock of 1440 MHz and a shader clock of 1296 MHz. By pressing a “Turbo” button on the back panel of the card, the core ...

24. Nvidia unveils Tesla, moves into supercomputing

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 20 June 2007

    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 processors ...

25. Analysis: Has Intel found the key to unlock supercomputing powers on the desktop?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Sunday, 17 June 2007

    ... point capability, have been discussed for some time. Most recently, ATI (now AMD) released its stream processor card and Nvidia is leveraging its GeForce 8 to make its graphics cards available to general ...

26. Nvidia unveils $830 GeForce 8800 Ultra graphics card

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 02 May 2007

    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 version ...

27. Sun announces 1.2 TFlop rack server

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 14 November 2006

    ... up to two dual-core Rev F AMD Opteron processors, DDR2-667 memory devices and can carry up to 4 TB in storage capacity and four Nvidia graphics cards. Pricings tarts at about $2300 for a base model with ...

28. Price/Performance Charts: U.S. retail still waiting for effect of AMD price cut

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 27 October 2006

    As we are heading into the Christmas season, AMD this week adjusted the prices of some of its processors. So far, most of the price cuts have not made it into etail/retail and some of the processors impacted ...

29. Nvidia announces new high-end mobile GPU

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 12 October 2006

30. The hidden potential in your graphics card: A supercomputer?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 18 September 2006

    ... said that its current high-end X1950 XTX processor brings in 375 GFLOPs, in dual-graphics mode even up to 750 GFLOPs - the equivalent of 31 Xeon 5100 processors. Nvidia's Geforce 7950 GX2 dual-GPU card ...

31. ATI releases first GDDR4 memory graphics card

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 23 August 2006

    ... dual-GPU solutions by using just one processor. Tom's Hardware had the chance to send an initial X1950 XTX card through our test parcours and found that the ATI card prevailed over Nvidia's cards in six ...

32. Could 10 - 20% yields for Cell processors lead to problems for Sony PS3?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 14 July 2006

    ... then be processed independently in a processor geared to handle scalar code. A GPU accomplishes this by implementing multiple pipelines - Nvidia's 7900 GTX utilizes 24 pixel pipelines and 8 vertex pipelines. ...

33. Nvidia rolls out nForce 590 SLI chipset

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 23 May 2006

    In a day of dueling chipset announcements, Nvidia has rolled out its new nForce 590 SLI MCP chipset. The chipset comes with built-in QoS for gaming traffic and Nvidia's "LinkBoost" which increases PCIe ...

34. Nvidia offers Gelato GPU-accelerated renderer for free

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 02 May 2006

    Nvidia has released a free version of its Gelato GPU assisted rendering software. Gelato 2.0 will be available for both Windows and Linux operating systems for free, though users requiring more features ...

35. Intel increases lead in semiconductor market

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 17 March 2006

    ... 2005, iSuppli said. Among fabless companies, Broadcom joined Qualcomm in the top 20 for the first time in 2005. Also, both Nvidia and ATI moved into the top 25 suppliers for the first time. The rankings ...

36. Nvidia acquires ULI - increases pressure on ATI

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 14 December 2005

    Nvidia today announced that it will acquire chipset company ULI, which will allow the company to compete more effectively against ATI in the chipset arena. It may also force ATI to rethink its own product ...

37. Via signs up for the dual-graphics game

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 22 November 2005

    ... Nvidia SLI or ATI Crossfire systems. Instead, the company says that it will provide a performance-per-watt optimized solution for multimedia desktops, workstations and professional applications that require ...

38. CE products driving IC industry, but CE challenges remain

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Friday, 04 November 2005

    ... manufacture them cheaply, according to executives from Nvidia and Flextronics, speaking at the FSA (Fabless Semiconductor Association) Suppliers Expo Taiwan. The fast growing consumer electronics (CE) ...

39. Corsair gets Nvidia SLI-Ready certification for memory

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 04 November 2005

      Corsair Memory, a leading company in high-end memory and cooling products, today announced that it has become the first company in the memory category to receive the Nvidia SLI-Ready certification. ...

40. Neurok Optics has a 3D monitor for World of Warcraft players

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 03 November 2005

    ... for converting the image from 2D to 3D is done by a "game adapter", which is a small box with two DVI inputs and two outputs, that sits between the video card and the monitor. The system requires an Nvidia ...

41. ATI launches x1000 family of graphics cards, sort of

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 05 October 2005

    ... and strategy that will challenge Nvidia. But, unfortunately only few of the X1000 models are available today. Some versions of the lineup will follow with at least one month delay.   Markham (ON) ...

42. Nvidia increases the pace in high-performance mobile graphics

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 29 September 2005

      Today there is a new face in the high performance mobile graphics market as nVidia launched a new flagship mobile graphics processor, the GeForce Go 7800 GTX. Unlike the launch of the Go 6800 Ultra ...

43. Nvidia increases wafer production for entry-level AGP8X chips

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 09 May 2005

      Nvidia recently placed additional orders for wafer starts at 0.14-micron for its AGP8x-based NV34 (FX5200) graphics chips at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), as demand in the entry-level ...

44. DFI launches SLI and dual-display motherboards

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 04 January 2005

    ... for the AMD Athlon 64 (socket 939) processors. Both boards are based on Nvidia's nForce4 chipset. The LANParty NF4 SLI-DR motherboard is DFI's first product to support Nvidia's SLI technology and run two ...

45. Transmeta Astro TM8000 Details Announced

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 10 March 2003

    ... interfaces. The TM8000 includes an on-chip AGP-4X graphics interface for industry standard, high performance graphics solutions, which of course opens the possibility of both ATI and Nvidia mobile GPU ...