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1. Nvidia and Asus tout 3D Vision notebook

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   A stereoscopic experience at 120Hz Nvidia and Asus have announced plans to launch a high-definition 3D Vision notebook in December.  

 The G51J 3D - which is expected to feature an advanced 120Hz 3D ...

2. Nvidia CEO says he is "all" Apple

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 13 November 2009

   The "best" technology Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has claimed that Apple uses the "best" technology to manufacture its Mac product line. "Apple says to their customers: if you buy a computer from us you ...

3. MSI plans Tegra e-book, talks up notebook shipments

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 27 October 2009

   MSI chairman Joseph Hsu let slip that the company is currently working on an Nvidia Tegra-based e-book reader, but details won't be released until sometime in the first half of next year. MSI chairman ...

4. Rumor: Nintendo selects Tegra processor for new DS

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Wednesday, 14 October 2009

   Nintendo has reportedly selected Nvidia's Tegra processor to power its next-generation DS/DSi console. According to Theo Valich, Nintendo has already started work on the new device and plans to debut ...

5. Nvidia accuses Intel of 'improper claims,' pulls out of chipset development

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 08 October 2009

   Nvidia says it is "postponing" further chipset investments for Intel DMI CPUs. However, the GPU company will continue to "innovate integrated solutions" for Intel's FSB architecture. Nvidia says it is ...

6. Mental Image debuts iRay rendering technology

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 30 September 2009

   ... power of Nvidia's GPU. Mental Image has debuted its iRay rendering technology. According to industry veteran Michael Kaplan, the iRay platform allows life-like graphics to become "interactive" by exploiting ...

7. 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 ...

8. Nvidia showcases next-generation Fermi GPU

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 30 September 2009

   Nvidia has finally unveiled its next-generation Fermi GPU. According to Jen-Hsun Huang, Fermi architecture represents the "foundation" of the world's first computational graphics processing units. Nvidia ...

9. AMD talks up graphics as Nvidia kicks off GPU conference

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 30 September 2009

   ... off the street in San Francisco last week to bend their ears. This week it’s Nvidia’s turn in the spotlight and Sunnyvale- based AMD has quite coincidentally banged out a couple of releases pushing its ...

10. 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 ...

11. Next-gen Mac mini spyshots and specs leak online

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 20 February 2009

    ... the built-in slot-loading SuperDrive will rely on SATA interface. On top of these specs, you can add the same Nvidia graphics subsystem found in unibody MacBooks and upcoming line of iMacs that Apple Insider ...

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. Apple remains a money-making machine, thanks to iPod touch and Macbooks

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 21 January 2009

    ... Mac desktops are long overdue for refresh - especially the iMac. Rumored upgrades should include Core i7 processors, Nvidia graphics, DisplayPort interconnect and better storage and memory. iPod ruled ...

14. Report: NAND, DDR2 memory prices heading back up

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 19 January 2009

    ... use Nvidia's processors in some of its phones. And currently, mobile phone chip orders are up ahead of the Lunar New Year for Chinese markets. China Mobile plans to spend $8.6 billion to build/update ...

15. 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 ...

16. HP to unveil green gaming PCs at CES

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 31 December 2008

    ... are equipped with quad-core Intel processors with a clock speed of up to 2.83 GHz, 4 GB of DDR2-800 memory and dual Nvidia GeForce 9800S video cards with 1 GB of memory.   Also included are twin hard ...

17. Nvidia to add more members to 40nm GT200 family

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 29 December 2008

    In addition to the high-end GT212, Nvidia plans to launch 40nm GT214 and GT216 GPUs to replace the current G94 and G96 chips for the mainstream market in the third quarter of 2009, accord to sources ...

18. 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 ...

19. Steve Jobs' Macworld 2009 keynote uncertain

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 16 December 2008

    ... will be exhibiting. Google will also either downsize its booth or maybe even drop out of the event completely. Wired expects Apple to launch the new 2009 Mac Mini at Macworld with Nvidia graphics and DisplayPort, ...

20. 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 ...

21. VIA Nvidia netbook platform plans suspended

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 04 November 2008

    Nvidia and VIA Technologies' cooperation over a platform for netbooks and Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) was recently suspended, according to sources at VIA. Nvidia and VIA signed a cooperation agreement ...

22. Nvidia denies planning more job cuts

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Monday, 27 October 2008

    Amid media reports that Nvidia plans to cut another 1000 more jobs in the near future, Nvidia has responded by stating that the story is false. Nvidia announced in September that it expects to eliminate ...

23. Nvidia says no truth to rumors it plans to cut off GPU supply to second-tier makers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Thursday, 23 October 2008

    With rumors circulating recently that Nvidia is planning to cut off supply of graphics processing units (GPU) to second-tier makers, Nvidia has officially refuted the rumor saying the relationship ...

24. 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.  ...

25. Timeline: How AMD changed over the past 39 years

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 07 October 2008

    ... HyperTransport is adopted by Agilent, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco Systems, IBM, nVidia, Sun, and Texas Instruments. 2002: AMD acquires Alchemy Semiconductor and its low-power, embedded processor technology. ...

26. Nvidia Tegra is based on GeForce 6

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 08 September 2008

      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 the ...

27. Badaboom’s GPU-accelerated video encoding promises a lot, not yet ready for prime time

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 26 August 2008

    ... by Elemental 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 faster ...

28. Can AMD survive another Core 2 Duo?

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Friday, 15 August 2008

    ... 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 to journalists. ...

29. Larrabee, CUDA and the quest for the free lunch

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 05 August 2008

    ... 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 successful. ...

30. Apple rumored to be ignoring Centrino 2 chipset

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 30 July 2008

    ...  Moving towards an Nvidia or AMD/ATI chipset solution certainly could improve Apple’s negotiation position to drive Intel prices lower. The validation advantage is somewhat minor for Apple, since the ...

31. Does AMD block PhysX on Radeon development?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 14 July 2008

      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 cheating. ...

32. Nvidia expected to offer DirectX 10.1 GPU in Q1 2009

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 03 July 2008

      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 time ...

33. Gainward to launch AMD Radeon products

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 01 July 2008

    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. Initially ...

34. Nvidia: Graphics is dead? Yeah right.

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Tuesday, 17 June 2008

      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. There ...

35. Nvidia has more than 70 million GPGPUs in the market

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 23 May 2008

    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-enabled ...

36. Intel will move Larrabee quickly into desktops, notebooks

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 22 May 2008

    ... head-to-head with Nvidia/AMD in the graphics arena. Larrabee is currently scheduled to debut in the second half of 2009 at IDF Fall in San Francisco, which means that we should expect this card in the ...

37. 65 nm GPUs for Xbox 360 now in production, Xbox ‘540’ coming in 2009

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 09 May 2008

    ... Nvidia: Wait for a manufacturing process to mature and then run the initial wafer order. Apparently, the transition was simulated in detail by ATI and the tapeout happened without problems, at least according ...

38. AMD announces 6-core and 12-core Opteron processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 07 May 2008

    ... 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 RD890S and RD870S northbridges as well as the SB700S ...

39. Inside Intel's ray tracing research

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 24 March 2008

      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 ...

40. Larrabee and Dunnington to star at IDF

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 17 March 2008

    ... be Larrabee, Intel’s first many-core product that will be released as a discrete graphics card in the 2009/2010 timeframe. The simple message is that Intel will be taking on AMD and Nvidia in the high-end ...

41. 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 ...

42. Exclusive: Dell set to introduce AMD Tri-Core Phenom

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Saturday, 16 February 2008

    ... not use an integrated graphics subsystem.   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 ...

43. Nvidia talks smartphone plans: Q&A with Michael Rayfield

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    Friday, 15 February 2008

    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 competition ...

44. PhysX to become a CUDA extension, PS4 developers rejoice

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 14 February 2008

    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 compliant ...

45. Future of the Mark – Futuremark’s President talks to TG Daily

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 11 February 2008

    ... Semiconductor, Vadem, SMSC, NVIDIA, Netcell and Chartered Semiconductor Corporation.  Over the last few years, he's been helping benchmark maker Futuremark reinvent itself from a small enthusiast ...

46. Analysis: Nvidia’s Ageia purchase – a brilliant move?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 05 February 2008

    ... company was trying to devalue Ageia. It didn’t take much to find that Ageia in fact was serious about selling the company and since yesterday we know that the buyer is Nvidia. The question is: Does ...

47. Nvidia snaps up Ageia

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 04 February 2008

    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 ...

48. Wrap-up: All stories and slideshows from CES 2008

    (Event Coverage/Event Coverage Features)

    Friday, 11 January 2008

    ... graphics/mobo company you’ve never heard of HD DVD vs. Blu-ray: The battle of the CES booths Hybrid SLI to promote motherboard/graphics card bundling in new Nvidia Additive ...

49. UPDATE: Who wants to buy AMD?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 14 December 2007

    ... 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 with AMD seems to be one firmly ...

50. Nvidia to launch GeForce 9 series in February

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 30 November 2007

    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 ...