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1. Weekly hardware roundup

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Saturday, 21 November 2009

   ... it offers. The 5970 will crush anything else out there. No other GPU can touch the 5970's raw power, nothing even comes close," said Nekechuk. Nvidia showcases Fermi-based Tesla GPUs Nvidia debuted ...

2. Nvidia auctions "ultimate" gaming system on eBay

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... percent" of the auction proceeds will be sent directly to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Additional specs include: Danger Den Double Wide Tower Case Complete Danger Den Water-cooling system Silverstone ...

3. Nvidia remains "committed" to gaming industry

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   ... people might be feeling anxious because we haven't published detailed information about Fermi-based Geforce cards," said Del Rizzo. "But, I can assure you that data is forthcoming. The wait will be well ...

4. Nvidia and Asus tout 3D Vision notebook

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   ... Vision display - will offer a stereoscopic 3D experience for over 400 PC games, including Resident Evil 5, Borderlands, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Batman: Arkham Asylum, and Star Trek D-A-C. ...

5. AMD debuts ATI Radeon 5970 GPU

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   ... gamers to easily unlock the card's full overclocking potential.   "The number one important aspect of this card is the raw performance it offers," Nekechuk told TG Daily. "The 5970 will crush anything ...

6. Nvidia showcases Fermi-based Tesla GPUs

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 17 November 2009

   ... calls and recursive functions. The Tesla C2050 and C2070 GPUs (520GFlops - 630 GFlops) are expected to retail for $2,500 and $4,000, while the Tesla S2050 and S2070 (2.1 TFlops - 2.5 TFlops) will have ...

7. Weekly hardware roundup

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Saturday, 14 November 2009

   Analog joystick mouse and crashing Hackintoshes This past week was a busy one at TG Daily. We covered a number of hardware-related topics, including the very first OpenOffice joystick mouse, crashing ...

8. Nvidia: Fermi production schedule remains on track

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 09 November 2009

   ... "[According to] CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, [Nvidia] will ramp Fermi for three different product lines: GeForce, Quadro and Tesla in the first quarter of fiscal 2011. [This means] that Nvidia will only be able ...

9. Nvidia may be moving into X86 market

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 04 November 2009

   ... processors. In the long term it will be hard for Nvidia to sell chipsets and it can't turn to AMD because that owns ATI. Freedman reasons that if Nvidia can't sell parts to go with Intel or AMD processors ...

10. AMD discovers several Fusion mantras, disses Larrabee

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 03 November 2009

    ... has made a mistake, reckoned Bergman. He’s not even bothered about ARM, which has an office just down the road from the Lone Star AMD campus. He doubts that ARM will go down the X86 path. But then ARM ...

11. Nvidia: Our nForce chipsets are "better" than Intel's

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 30 October 2009

    ... e-mailed statement to TG Daily. "However, it has been widely reported that Nvidia will not be making any new chipsets for the Intel platform until our dispute with Intel is resolved." According to ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 27 October 2009

    ... problems' to be fixed with the design of the device, reports Digitimes. MSI joins Asustek, which has already announced plans for an e-book. Its nine-inch grayscale device will appear 'soon' according ...

13. TG Daily: A readers' Guide

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Monday, 26 October 2009

    ... you leaping for the keyboard and immediately commenting that our mother is a diseased crack ho, or that we are an orang-utan, is probably slightly wide of the mark and will win you few friends. The ...

14. Nvidia: Windows 7 "dramatically improves" GPU performance

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 22 October 2009

    Nvidia has welcomed the official debut of Microsoft Windows 7. A company spokesperson explained that the new operating system will significantly accelerate system performance by using the DirectCompute ...

15. ARM multicore chip challenges Intel's hegemony

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 20 October 2009

    ... profile processors in Flash Player 10.1, will allow users of ARM processor based systems to view the same internet video content previously accessible only to users of X86 based systems." Samsung endorsed ...

16. Nvidia RealityServer moves 3D rendering to the Cloud

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 20 October 2009

    ... interactive, photorealistic 3D applications to any web connected device. According to Nvidia's Dan Vivoli, RealityServer will enable developers to create a "new generation" of consumer and enterprise ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 20 October 2009

    ... and the revolutionary Magic Mouse, the new iMac delivers an amazing desktop experience that we think customers will love."   SLIDESHOW: The new iMac, Mac Mini, MacBook and Magic Mouse (30 pictures) ...

18. Apple takes on Microsoft's Zune with FM Radio iPhone app

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 14 October 2009

    Apple is reportedly developing an in-house radio application for the iPhone and iPod touch. According to 9to5mac, the nascent app will be capable of functioning "in the background" and is likely to offer ...

19. 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 ...

20. Nvidia and "Starting the Next Age of Personal Computing"

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Opinion)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

    ... to correct it putting projects weeks or months in the hole.   This did horrible things to creativity because technicians and artists were unwilling to take risks and try new things because it ...

21. GPU-based array processes 20TFLOP with just 20kW of power

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

    ... 32 antenna "tiles" which form a high fidelity imaging array in the 80-300 MHz frequency range. However, the array will eventually feature 8,000 dual-polarization dipole antennas arranged as 512 tiles, ...

22. Nvidia says Fermi speculation is "insane"

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

    ... the "foundation" of the world's first computational GPUs - which will include a range of products, including GeForce, Quadro and Tesla. "GPU computing has reached an important tipping point. GPU computing ...

23. 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 ...

24. Nvidia showcases next-generation Fermi GPU

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 30 September 2009

    ... has finally unveiled its next-generation Fermi GPU. According to Jen-Hsun Huang, Fermi architecture represents the "foundation" of the world's first computational GPUs - which will include GeForce, Quadro ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 30 September 2009

    ... platforms’. “Proprietary physics solutions divide consumers and ISVs, while stifling true innovation; our competitors even develop code that they themselves admit will not work on hardware other than ...

26. Nvidia kicks off 2009 GPU conference

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 29 September 2009

    ... will also heavily concentrate on parallel computing and it will have bit elements on chip adjusted for this task," wrote Fuad Abazovic. "The chip supports GDDR5 memory, has billions of transistors and ...

27. LucidLogix boosts GPU gaming with Hydra 200 parallel processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 28 September 2009

    ... it comes to GPU scaling," said Peddie. "And with multi-core graphics growing at a rate of ten percent year over year, it will be interesting to see what kind of momentum a mass market M GPU can have in ...

28. Nvidia teams up with Microsoft for HPC

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 28 September 2009

    ... programmer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. "As we move toward even larger biomolecular structures, GPUs will become increasingly important as they bring even more computational power ...

29. Toshiba targets high-end gamers with Qosmio X500

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 23 September 2009

    ... speakers, Dolby Home Theater audio and an integrated HDMI-CEC port.  The Qosmio X500 will launch alongside Windows 7 on October 22, 2009. However, pricing is expected to be announced on October 13. ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 22 September 2009

    ... AMD is the undisputed leader in graphics once more." According to Bergman, ATI will initially release two cards: the Radeon HD 5870 and the 5850, each with 1GB GDDR5 memory. The $400 Radeon 5870 is capable ...

31. SGI introduces Octane III 'personal' supercomputer

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 21 September 2009

    SGI has introduced a "personal" supercomputer capable of accommodating up to 80 high-performance cores and nearly 1TB of memory. According to SGI CEO Mark J. Barrenechea, the Octane III will help enable ...

32. Apple Snow Leopard sales hit record numbers

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 17 September 2009

    ... the fall selling season, and the release of another major OS upgrade, it will be instructive to see if that upgrade - currently projected to sell at ASPs much higher than Snow Leopard - can deliver the ...

33. We will be faster than ATI, claims Nvidia

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 16 September 2009

    ... spoilers. It claims that its next series of cards are not going to be based on a redesigned GT200 core, but rather will be based on a completely new core architecture currently codenamed the GT300.  ...

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

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Tuesday, 15 September 2009

    Analyst Opinion This week begins the real wave of the PC refresh cycle for the non-Mac crowd and it will pick up to a major wave on October 22nd when Windows 7 launches. This week begins the real wave ...

35. Microsoft's Zune tunes in to HD Radio

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Monday, 14 September 2009

    ... by up to 30 percent and packaging by 50 percent. This will help facilitate increased performance and provide lower cost solutions." See Also Microsoft ditches 'classic' Zune models  ...

36. Nvidia touts CUDA-enabled GPUs for Snow Leopard

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 04 September 2009

    ... the only company that has enabled developers to begin programming with OpenCL on the GPU on all three platforms. When Windows 7 ships later this year, both major OS will include support for GPU Computing," ...

37. AMD touts benefits of OpenCL and Snow Leopard

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 01 September 2009

    ... hardware platforms that deliver the best user experience by balancing software workloads between both multi-core CPUs and GPUs will be attractive options for end-users." Rick Bergman, Senior VP of AMD ...

38. Humbled Psystar hopes to 'coexist' with Apple

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 28 August 2009

    ... machines before we encourage our customers to update their Psystar computer. And we will continue to support our computers through new software releases," added Psystar. Indeed, the ongoing legal battle ...

39. Nvidia touts rapid GPU performance boost

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 24 August 2009

    Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has predicted that GPU computing will experience a rapid performance boost over the next six years. According to Huang, GPU compute is likely to increase its current capabilities ...

40. Chip Wars: NVIDIA and ATI spar over OpenCL GPU support

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 14 August 2009

    ... that their GPUs are taking over general purpose computing, when the fact remains that the CPU will remain a vital element in systems," AMD spokesperson Gary Silcott told TG Daily. "AMD is providing open ...

41. World + Dog licenses Nvidia SLI

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 10 August 2009

    ... this combination will surely be attractive to anyone building or purchasing a brand new PC this fall." As a result of the announcement, Nvidia SLI technology is now available for nearly all consumer ...

42. ARM rules the smartphone roost

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 04 August 2009

    ... to buck the trend, with shipments growing by 23 percent between 2008 and 2009, according to analyst firm Ovum. Despite the overall decline in the total mobile phone market, the smartphone sector will ...

43. Khronos Group details cross-platform WebGL initiative

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 04 August 2009

    ... joined the WebGL working group, including AMD, Ericsson, Google, Mozilla, Nvidia and Opera. Participants are currently working to define a JavaScript binding to OpenGL ES 2.0 that will enable rich 3D graphics ...

44. Nvidia claims first with ray tracing engine

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 04 August 2009

    ... Siggraph graphics expedition starts - earlier today AMD announced its ATI stuff will support OpenGL 3.1, and ultimately OpenGL 3.2. The family of Nvidia engines include the OptiX engine for real time ...

45. Khronos Group releases OpenGL 3.2

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 03 August 2009

    ... that the evolution of OpenGL would help developers design console and PC games with "greater realism." "The industry will see GPU's turning into running physics engines, creating gaming environments that ...

46. EA preps Warhammer MMORPG for the Mac

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 30 July 2009

    ... Engine developed by TransGaming. The engine reportedly acts as "wrapper" around the software, which allows the title to run "seamlessly" on Intel-based Macs. However, Warhammer will not run on PowerPC ...

47. AMD eats into Nvidia, Intel graphics market share

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 27 July 2009

    ... third or fourth quarter of this year and the market won't hit the levels of 2008 until 2010. The PC market will be helped by Apple Snow Leopard and Microsoft Windows 7, plus AMD and Nvidia will bring ...

48. Globalfoundries starts construction of $4.2 billion fab

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 24 July 2009

    ... is expected to take approximately three years to complete, with volume production due in 2012. "Globalfoundries fabs will be optimized for lean operations and maximum efficiency through the use of our ...

49. 3D movie downloads due in Q4, says Sonic

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 21 July 2009

    ...  Taylor added that pricing has yet to be determined. Sonic is working with Nvidia to ensure that 3D movies from Roxio CinemaNow will be optimized for GeForce GPUs and the Roxio CinemaNow player will ...

50. Graphics market has worst ever year

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 16 July 2009

    ... it believes the worst is over and there will be signs of recovery in the third quarter. It bases that hope on its own data, on interviews with suppliers, and on world economic forecast models. Notebooks, ...