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1. 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 ...

2. ATI introduces Radeon HD 5800 GPU for DirectX 11 gaming

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 22 September 2009

   ... DirectCompute 11 opens our eyes to a multitude of new possibilities." See Also We will be faster than ATI, claims Nvidia Slideshow: AMD previews next-gen gaming     AMD showcases Eyefinity ...

3. Apple Snow Leopard sales hit record numbers

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 17 September 2009

   ... Leopard Nvidia touts CUDA-enabled GPUs for Snow Leopard Gray screen of death hits Snow Leopard AMD touts benefits of OpenCL and Snow Leopard Apple Snow Leopard screws OS X apps Snow Leopard security ...

4. Humbled Psystar hopes to 'coexist' with Apple

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 28 August 2009

   ... 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 ...

5. Khronos Group releases OpenGL 3.2

   (Software/Software Features)

   Monday, 03 August 2009

   ... helping to push new functionality in MID's (mobile Internet devices)," Neil Trevett, president of the Khronos Group and VP at NVIDIA, told TG Daily. "For example, the new iPhone 3GS offers advanced support ...

6. Apple releases OSX 10.5.7 Update

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 13 May 2009

   ... movement for recent Macs with Nvidia graphics, adds RAW image support for multiple third-party digital cameras, improvements to network performance with Flow Control enabled Ethernet switches are in use, ...

7. 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) ...

8. Microsoft releases third anti-Apple ad: It’s Blu-ray!

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 10 April 2009

   ... 13” Macbook, a 250 GB hard drive, 2 GB of memory and Nvidia 9400 graphics – that’s about it.    Jackson and his mom try finding the perfect notebook for about $1500, it needs “speed for gaming” ...

9. 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 ...

10. Will Apple lose its power to drive market trends?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Tuesday, 24 March 2009

    ... efforts from Nvidia and AMD's ATI group. Each of these efforts, while impressive in terms of potential, wasn't making any headway with mainstream applications, because they were incompatible with each ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 10 March 2009

    ... 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 ...

12. 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. ...

13. 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 ...

14. Adobe: The GPU is not a universal app accelerator

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 19 February 2009

    ... the good news was that we saw GPGPU acceleration in a commercial application, giving it more horsepower to deal with huge images. Both AMD/ATI and Nvidia graphic cards provide Adobe with acceleration through ...

15. 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 ...

16. Where are the WOW! products?

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Sunday, 18 January 2009

    ... be seeing any WOW! products - quite possibly ever again. Not from Intel, Samsung, Microsoft, IBM, AMD, VIA, Nvidia, or even the the John Kanziuss of the world - at least not those that weren‘t fully ...

17. 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 ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 08 January 2009

      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 ...

19. 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 ...

20. Asus releases Ares desktop PCs, G50 gaming notebook

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 22 October 2008

    ... ports, up to 8 GB of DDR3 memory, up to three Nvidia GeForce GTX280 graphics cards as well as a liquid cooling system. The power supply supports of to 2 KW. Pricing has not been released, but do not expect ...

21. Rumor round-up: New Apple laptops

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 10 October 2008

    ... and 2.8 GHz and Nvidia graphics processor. Cult of Mac's Leander Kahney predicts 2.4 GHz, 2.66 GHz, 2.8 GHz, and 3.06 GHz models, 2 GB of RAM for MB and 4 GB for MBP, and hard drive sizes between 160 ...

22. AMD launches $40 graphics cards assault against Nvidia

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 29 September 2008

    ... graphics chip systems to discrete graphics cards. AMD’s new 4500/4300 series goes head-to head with Nvidia’s entry-level 9400-series, but promises to undercut its rival’s price point while offering ...

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. Nvidia asked to pay up for defective chips

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 10 September 2008

      Shalov Stone Bonner & Rocco said it has filed a securities fraud class action against Nvidia, selflessly representing all investors who purchased or otherwise acquired the common stock of ...

25. Dell releases BIOS updates for failing Nvidia GPUs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 28 July 2008

      Dell is offering BIOS updates to mitigate the effects of faulty GPUs shipped by Nvidia. The BIOS upgrade will not “repair” the GPU, but Dell hopes that the update will alleviate problems caused ...

26. 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 ...

27. 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 ...

28. Nvidia releases 9800GTX+ graphics processor for the mainstream

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 19 June 2008

      With the new GTX200 series out the gate, Nvidia is ready to transition its 9800 GPU family into more affordable price regions. Nvidia claims that the new card will beat its direct competitor, ...

29. 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 ...

30. Photoshop to get GPU and physics acceleration

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 23 May 2008

    ... a demonstration at Nvidia’s headquarters in Santa Clara, we got a glimpse of Adobe’s  "Creative Suite Next" (or CS4), code-named “Stonehenge”, which adds GPU and physics support to its existing multi-core ...

31. 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 ...

32. Stanford releases new GPU client for Folding@Home project

    (Software/Software Features)

    Sunday, 13 April 2008

    ...  At this time, there is no information when Folding@Home could be supported by Nvidia GPUs. Back at the launch of G80, or the original GeForce 8800, Adam Foat, Nvidia's PR representative for Northern ...

33. PNY releases Quadro FX 5600 SDI card with 1.5 GB of video memory

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 11 April 2008

    ... for the broadcasting industry. And yes, Nvidia, AMD and Intel are there, but we have to acknowledge that AMD and Intel take the  second and the third spot in visualization technologies for the broadcasting ...

34. 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 ...

35. AMD releases dual-GPU graphics card

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 28 January 2008

    ... been a while since we have seen a high-end graphics card from AMD/ATI in the $450 and higher market. And some felt that Nvidia has held the title of graphics performance leader for far too long and has ...

36. AMD touts upcoming AMD LIVE! Ultra, releases Explorer - UPDATE

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 09 January 2008

    ... Nvidia cards (provided some other AMD components are still on the motherboard).  ...

37. TG Daily Special: Leaving Redmond, WA in 24 hours

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 18 July 2007

    ... without any special drivers on almost every video card.  I had to do this on one of my computers (with a brand new NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX, by the way - the card was too new for the build's Nvidia ...

38. GP GPUs unleashed: Nvidia releases CUDA 1.0

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 12 July 2007

    Programmers can now unlock the general processing power of their Nvidia graphics cards with a new SDK. Santa Clara (CA) – Programmers can now unlock the general processing power of their Nvidia ...

39. PNY releases factory-overclocked GeForce 8800 GTX

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 08 May 2007

    PNY Technologies has released a new Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX graphics card that is factory overclocked by approximately 10%. PARSIPPANY (NY) - PNY Technologies has released a new GeForce 8800 GTX graphics ...

40. Nvidia releases DX10 game developer kit

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 07 March 2007

    Nvidia is demonstrating at GDC 2007 a newly released toolkit for the development of DirectX 10 games running on its Geforce 8-series graphics chips. Santa Clara (CA) – Nvidia is demonstrating at ...

41. Game Developers Conference 2007

    (Event Coverage/Event Coverage Features)

    Sunday, 04 March 2007

    ...  3D user community for PS3 GDC kicks off with low expectations Nvidia releases DX10 game developer kit Original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles races to Xbox Live DiamondWare's  ...

42. Velocity Micro releases Blu-ray Media Center PC box

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 30 January 2007

    ... to play with, you can opt for a Core 2 Duo equipped system, which starts at about $2820 for the basic Blu-ray system and extends to an enthusiast PC with a quad-core CPU, an Nvidia 8800 GTS graphics card, ...

43. AMD releases Windows Vista graphics driver for ATI cards

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 29 January 2007

    ... PRO and X1950 XTX include such a chip, while it was up to the add-in card vendor to include such a chip in older X1000 versions, such as the initial X1300 and X1600 series. Competitor Nvidia is preparing ...

44. XFX releases 630 MHz, triple-x Geforce 8800 graphics card

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 15 December 2006

    ... the company offers a 8800 GTX card that comes with a 630 MHz GPU and 2.0 GHz memory. The reference design provided by Nvidia runs on a 575 MHz GPU and 1.8 MHz memory clock. There is also a 8800 GTS XXX ...

45. Dell ships $3700 Blu-ray notebook

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 11 December 2006

    ... hi-def resolutions up to 1080p and offers surround sound output up to 7.1 channels. It also comes packed with an Intel Core 2 Duo T7600 (2.33 GHz) processors, along with a 512 MB Nvidia GeForce Go 7950 ...

46. Nvidia scores dramatic gain in graphics chip market share

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 06 December 2006

    Despite its recent accounting woes, Nvidia may have just completed one of the most successful quarters in the firm's history. According to a report released by Jon Peddie Research (JPR) today, the company ...

47. Sony launches Playstation 3 in the U.S.

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 17 November 2006

    ... $600, integrates the first Cell processor that consumers actually can buy, Nvidia "Reality Synthesizer" graphics engine, Toshiba's Emotion Engine, 256 MB GDDR3 graphics memory, 256 MB XDR memory, a 60 ...

48. Nvidia releases WHQL HD driver, ATI first to offer Vista RTM driver

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 03 November 2006

    Nvidia and ATI have updated their graphics drivers with two distinct features: Nvidia is now offering HD DVD and Blu-ray playback capability with Purevideo HD and ATI is first to get a certified driver ...

49. New Catalyst driver accelerates Intel 965 Crossfire configurations

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 31 October 2006

    ... Nvidia announces SLI-accelerated physics ATI releases first GDDR4 memory graphics card  ...

50. Firefox 2.0 bug hunt getting into gear

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 26 October 2006

    Microsoft had to deal with the first security issues of Internet Explorer 7.0 on the first day of the browser's release. Firefox appears to be ok as of now, but Italian website Pianeta PC, claims that ...