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1. AMD discovers several Fusion mantras, disses Larrabee

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... The GPU gives the best performance per watt per dollar, he said. “We’re totally focused on the platform now and we have all the essentials.” Intel and Nvidia don’t give Bergman any nightmares, or if they ...

2. Apple refreshes iMac lineup with 21.5 and 27-inch displays

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... while the 27-inch iMac boasts a 2560-by-1440 pixel display. Both iMacs offer improved graphics capabilities, with Nvidia GeForce 9400M or ATI Radeon HD 4670 in the 21.5-inch model, and ATI Radeon HD ...

3. Slideshow: Nvidia showcases next-generation GPU architecture

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   As TG Daily previously reported, Nvidia showcased its next-generation Fermi architecture during the 2009 GPU Conference in San Jose, California.As TG Daily previously reported, Nvidia showcased its ...

4. Nvidia says Fermi speculation is "insane"

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Nvidia has rebuffed speculation that its next-generation Fermi GPU is targeted primarily at the high-performance computing market (HPC) market. Nvidia has rebuffed speculation that its next-generation ...

5. Nvidia showcases next-generation Fermi GPU

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   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 ...

6. SGI introduces Octane III 'personal' supercomputer

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... 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  ...

7. Nvidia touts CUDA-enabled GPUs for Snow Leopard

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Nvidia has told TG Daily that all CUDA-enabled GPUs shipped by Apple support the Snow Leopard operating system. San Francisco, Calif. Nvidia has told TG Daily that all CUDA-enabled GPUs shipped by Apple ...

8. Humbled Psystar hopes to 'coexist' with Apple

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... a 3.0 GHz Intel Quad Core processor, 4 GB DDR2, 1000 GB HD and an NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT. See also Apple slams Psystar for destroying crucial evidence Apple's Schiller agrees ...

9. World + Dog licenses Nvidia SLI

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Intel has licensed Nvidia's SLI technology for inclusion in its P55 Express motherboards designed for the Core i7 and the upcoming Core i5 chips. Santa Clara (CA) - Intel has licensed Nvidia's SLI technology ...

10. Nvidia claims first with ray tracing engine

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Fabless chip company Nvidia said it has introduced the OptiX ray tracing engine, which it says is part of a collection of application acceleration engines aimed at software developers. Fabless chip ...

11. Is it time for Nvidia to ditch CUDA?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Nvidia had some interesting news today and announced the first Open CL 1.0 drivers for its GPUs today. For now, however, the drivers are only available to registered Nvidia developers, but Nvidia’s ...

12. Nvidia, Supermicro demo 12x performance hike

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    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 ...

13. Nvidia releases CUDA 2.2 with Windows 7 support

    (Software/Software Features)

    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) ...

14. Rethinking benchmarks for a new consumer

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    ... the delta benchmark can’t exceed the delta cost. In a recent evaluation by Tom’s Hardware (April 8, 2009) on an Intel and an Nvidia motherboard: “G45 And GeForce 9400: Integrated Chipsets For Core 2 : ...

15. Sun rolls out Intel Nehalem servers

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... one full Sun Blade 6048 chassis can hit a peak performance of 9 TFlops, Sun said. Also new is the Ultra 27 workstation, which is equipped with (single) Xeon 3500-series CPUs and is available with Nvidia’s ...

16. Evolved Machines fires up Nvidia Tesla supercomputer

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Evolved Machines said that it has powered on a new GPU-focused supercomputer, which runs on 42 Tesla C1060 cards as well as 14 quad-core AMD Phenom processors, which has a theoretical maximum performance ...

17. Nvidia launches five Quadro cards, relaunches two

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Nvidia is taking advantage of Intel’s Nehalem buzz today and reminded us that the company has the “most powerful professional graphics card lineup”. There are seven new cards, if we forget that two ...

18. AMD ready to demo Havok physics on its graphics cards

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... 2009, which starts today. No matter how you look at it, physics on graphics cards is still one big mess. Nvidia has PhysX, Microsoft is working on Direct Physics and Intel acquired Havok to jump on the ...

19. AMD releases extreme low-power FirePro 2450 quad-display graphics

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... in financial services and process control." Competitor Nvidia recently offered the Quadro NVS 420 video card which also supports four displays, though using DVI-D or DisplayPort connectors. Nvidia's ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

21. First Core i7 notebook announced

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... 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 ...

22. More new OS X Snow Leopard features emerge

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... 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 ...

23. Why you will upgrade to OS X Snow Leopard

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... 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 ...

24. Review: Internet Explorer 8 improves with age

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... 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 ...

25. Nvidia launches Quadro NVS 420, 4x 2560x1600 video card

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      Nvidia's Quadro NVS 420, a small form factor (SFF) video card which supports up to four 30" displays at 2560 x 1600 resolutions, was announced on Tuesday. This offering brings below $500 a physically ...

26. Nvidia bundles Quadro CX with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      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 ...

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

    (Software/Software Brief)

    ... 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 ...

28. CES 2009: Nvidia releases GeForce GTX 285 and GTX 295 for high-end

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      Nvidia announced the immediate availability of the GeForce GTX 295 for $499. The GeForce GTX 285 will be available on January 15, 2009, and comes with a $399 suggested MSRP. They deliver best-in-class ...

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

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

      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 ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

32. Lenovo announces dual-screen Thinkpad

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... drive. The measurements are 16.1”x12.2”x2.1”. The core hardware components of the W700ds include Intel Core 2 processors (quad-core available), Nvidia workstation graphics (Quadro FX 3760M), 4 – 8 GB ...

33. HP to unveil green gaming PCs at CES

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

34. Acer launches bargain quad-core notebook

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... 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 ...

35. Nvidia's Tesla deskside supercomputer returns as a PC

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      PC vendors such as Dell will soon begin selling desktop supercomputer built around Nvidia’s Tesla floating point accelerators. Priced around $10,000, these PCs may look innocent, but they pack ...

36. Intel unleashes Core i7, beats itself

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... – which refers to the combination of the CPU and a GPU. That argument is substantially weakend with the arrival of Core i7, since the platform supports dual-graphics solutions from Nvidia and AMD/ATI. ...

37. Nvidia announces a $3500 graphics card

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      Nvidia today announced what the company calls “most powerful professional graphics card in graphics history”, which may be true if 4 GB of memory is any indication of the capabilities of the device. ...

38. Nvidia launches entry-level professional GPUs for small and integrated form factors

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Nvidia has announced the Quadro FX 470, the first integrated professional motherboard GPU, and Quadro FX 370 Low Profile, an entry-level Quadro graphics boards for small form factor (SFF) systems. ...

39. Apple expected to refresh its iMac on November 10

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      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. ...

40. Dell refreshes iMac clone XPS One

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

41. Toshiba launches quad-core gaming laptop

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... as an SLI graphics configuration consisting of the Nvidia 9400M IGC and a discrete 9800M GTS graphics chip with 1 GB of memory. The package, which comes in the same bright red colors as previous X305 models, ...

42. A graphics card just for Photoshop

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      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, ...

43. Asus announces quad-core gaming laptop

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... and an Nvidia GeForce 9700M GT card with 512 MB of GDDR3 video RAM. Taipei (Taiwan) – Gamers and video editing gurus rejoice because the age of the quad-core laptop will soon be upon us.  I’m not ...

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

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... 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. ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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. ...

46. First Look: Photoshop CS4 with GPU acceleration

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... 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.         ...

47. High-end coprocessors: An overview

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... would products from ATI or Nvidia simply do better graphics faster, but now it would provide real compute abilities and speedups not possible previously without extremely expensive high-end cards. In ...

48. Abe Lincoln and Tesla to reside at NCSA in October

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... processors and 16 GB of memory.  In addition there will be 96 Nvidia Tesla S1070 accelerator units in the cluster.  Each Tesla unit itself is capable of providing up to 500 GFlops of double-precision ...

49. Nvidia GPU failures caused by material problem, sources claim

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      When Nvidia announced in early July that it has noticed a higher than normal failure rate in some of its notebook chips, investors reacted concerned, sending the company stock down 22%. The stock ...

50. Intel G45 motherboards get quad-display support

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... there is a new convenient solution coming your way very soon. The number of monitors supported by one system is typically limited by the number of graphics card outputs, which is a nice for Nvidia and ...