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NVIDIA Tablet Is Tegra-Based but Not Apple

Not too long ago, the media got a picture of NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang sporting a tablet PC which was assumed to be the same thing as the highly-anticipated Apple Tablet. The shot was taken during the CEO's speech at the American University of Dubai, but no details were given about the technology used in the ta...

28 November 2009
04:49 GMT

SPARKLE Computer Co. Launches Low Profile GeForce GTS 250

Although most high-performance cards are large and can only fit into medium to large-sized casings, Sparkle managed to put together an NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250-based graphics adapter, which, although small and able to fit even into Home Theater Personal Computers, still delivers a high-end performance capable of handli...

27 November 2009
06:02 GMT

NVIDIA Graphics Cards Surface, GeForce 310 and GeForce 205

NVIDIA's two 'new' graphics adapters seem to be the GPU manufacturer's way of addressing the issue of low-end users who would still like their old systems to have at least a minimum of graphics capabilities. Ironically, the GeForce 310 is not, as one would expect (and wish), any debut of a new ada...

27 November 2009
03:09 GMT

Download NVIDIA GeForce 195.62 WQHL Drivers

Sunnyvale, California-based NVIDIA, one of the world's leading vendors of high-performance graphics solutions, has just released its new GeForce/ION drivers, version 195.62. The new drivers, which are WHQL-certified, deliver support for the company's latest products, while also providing a couple of extra f...

26 November 2009
07:06 GMT

NVIDIA Wins Legal Dispute Against Rambus

Yesterday, the U.S. Patent Office decided that Rambus' accusations against NVIDIA, according to which the latter had manufactured products that violated its patents, were groundless. Although, predictably, Rambus responded to this dismissal of accusations by stating that the patents were still “enforceable...

25 November 2009
04:28 GMT

Zotac's GeForce GT 220 Doesn't Need Fans to Be Cool

The latest graphics card from Zotac is, as the name implies, NVIDIA-based, and boasts 48 CUDA cores. The adapter has a core clock of 625MHz, a shader clock of 1360MHz, has 1GB of high-speed DDR2 memory and functions on a 129-bit memory interface. With these resources (including a memory clock of 800MHz), the device i...

25 November 2009
03:56 GMT

NVIDIA CEO Says Intel Will Lose in Court

Although it finished up some of its bigger legal issues when it settled the antitrust lawsuit with AMD, Intel is still far from getting out of all its other legal disputes. One of the more heated litigations that are taking place between it and NVIDIA, the entire quarrel between the two enterprises revolves around wh...

24 November 2009
09:00 GMT

XStriker3 Includes Inno3D's GT 240 into the i-Chill Line

Inno3D's i-Chill series of products is determined by the special cooling mechanisms employed in the temperature management. The product series has its own custom-designed cooler, namely the XStriker3. This cooler is especially designed with top-notch passive and active cooling mechanisms, which makes it especial...

24 November 2009
05:31 GMT

NVIDIA-Powered Aussie Supercomputer Will Boast over 200 TFLOPS

With the advent of graphics processing units that can take upon themselves part of the CPU's computing tasks, developers are slowly researching how GPUs might be used in complicated computations instead of just graphics-rendering tasks. While supercomputers based on this principle are just beginning to appear, C...

24 November 2009
03:13 GMT

More Affordable than the HD 5970, the GT 240 Is Released by Axle As Well

Just after finally releasing its own Radeon HD 5970 ultra-high-end graphics card, Axle came out with its release of the NVIDIA-powered GT 240. Although not as powerful as the HD 5970 and with no overclocking possibilities to speak of, the card is a cheaper alternative to the heavy-weight ATI-powered beast while still...

23 November 2009
06:35 GMT

NVIDIA Patent Optimizes GPU Processing Speed

"Previously, when a large texture needed to be read, one instruction would be issued, and one shader circuit would need to make several passes while other circuits sat idle," NVIDIA spokesman Hector Marinez said. "But [NVIDIA] patent authors Emmett Kilgariff and Rui Bastos figured out a way to allow for a partial tex...

23 November 2009
03:11 GMT

UPDATE: NVIDIA ION and Adobe Flash 10.1 Performance Review

A couple of interesting announcements were made this week, starting off with the release of AMD's much-anticipated Radeon HD 5970 graphics card, a dual-GPU monster that can barely fit your ATX chassis and delivers the highest level of performance currently available on the market. However, in case you have misse...

20 November 2009
09:05 GMT

Galaxy Starts Working on a Dual-GPU Graphics Card

Although known for its restrictive policies concerning just how much its partners can use from its portfolio, NVIDIA seems to have had a change of heart and may have started allowing them to craft dual-GPU adapters. This is probably due to just how well AMD has been doing lately, with its many recent DirectX-compatib...

19 November 2009
09:51 GMT

Asus Eee PC 1201N Is Based on Ion

This product from Asus is a 12.1-inch mobile platform, which, because of its combination of features and despite it being, officially, considered a netbook, is really something in-between a netbook and a notebook. Packing performance in both the area of application running and that of connectivity, the Asus Eee PC 12...

19 November 2009
09:15 GMT

End-Users Are Still Treated Unfairly by Intel, Says NVIDIA

According to NVIDIA, the antitrust settlement between Intel and AMD won't be nearly enough to safeguard the end-users from the Santa Clara giant's unsavory activities, which continue on other levels of the IT marketing segment. Although Intel keeps challenging NVIDIA's claims, the leading GPU manufactu...

18 November 2009
07:43 GMT

Mysterious NVIDIA GeForce Card Could Be Fermi-Based

Today is marked by the official debut of AMD's much-anticipated Radeon HD 5970, a dual-GPU graphics card that has been designed to become the world's fastest card on the market. Featuring impressive specifications, this card is likely to outperform NVIDIA's current offering, putting AMD in the first p...

18 November 2009
04:38 GMT

Update: Download NVIDIA GeForce 195.55 Beta Drivers

NVIDIA has been making the headlines recently, as the company's partners have just announced the introduction of their latest GeForce cards, based on the G215 graphics processing unit, or the GeForce GT 240. Coming to support its partners' new cards, the Santa Clara, California-based graphics chip maker ha...

17 November 2009
10:58 GMT

Yet More GeForce GT 240 Cards Introduced, This Time by Leadtek

In tune with last month's prediction concerning the launch date of the GeForce GT 240 graphics cards, quite a few hardware manufacturers, including MSI, Galaxy and Inno3D, showcased their own models of the NVIDIA-based video adapters. Bent on matching and even outdoing this competition, Leadtek, in turn, came ou...

17 November 2009
08:08 GMT

Inno3D Introduces Some GeForce GT 240 Graphics Cards of its Own

Like several of its peers, Inno3D introduced today its own NVIDIA-based video cards. Similar to those released by MSI and Leadtek, these cards are well-suited for the heavy computing tasks run by most of the latest games and visually complex applications, such as 3D model development software. Able to provide the per...

17 November 2009
07:30 GMT

Three New GeForce Cards from Galaxy

Those who don't want to skip buying a computer component for Christmas just so they can save some cash for an upcoming Fermi card now have three new video boards to choose from. The adapters are capable of matching and even topping the performance of most of the mid-range cards. They are the GeForce GT 240 D3 51...

17 November 2009
02:54 GMT

NVIDIA Tegra 2-Based Nintendo DS Rumors Continue

Although NVIDIA's first generation of Tegra processor is just making its way into the market, in the form of the recently introduced Microsoft Zune HD and Samsumg Yeep M1 media players, there are rumors already regarding the second installment of the aforementioned processor. Tegra 2 will reportedly double...

16 November 2009
11:20 GMT

NVIDIA Fermi-Based Tesla Will Improve Supercomputing

Earlier today, NVIDIA announced the Tesla 20 series of parallel processors aimed at the high-performance computing market. Naturally, the products are based on NVIDIA's next-generation CUDA architecture, Fermi, and are actually able to deliver the same computing performance at a tenth of the cost and one twentie...

16 November 2009
10:58 GMT

Tegra Powers Upcoming 15.6-Inch Tablet from ICD

As we reported in our previous articles, NVIDIA's Tegra solution is expected to be featured in a number of new devices, ranging from small, ultra-portable computer systems to MIDs, tablet PCs, media players, and others. Just recently, Tegra was involved in a rumor concerning a much speculated Apple Tablet, whic...

13 November 2009
09:33 GMT

Infosys-NVIDIA Technology Center to Be Opened at Electronic City, Bangalore

Major IT developer in India Infosys Technologies and the elite GPU developer NVIDIA revealed today an upcoming partnership plan meant to bring about the creation of software for the CUDA architecture developed by the visual computing-solution provider. “Multi-core and parallel programming were becoming import...

13 November 2009
06:12 GMT

NVIDIA Is Just Fine with Lucid's Hydra Technology

Yesterday, we reported on the news about the early previews of what Lucid's Hydra 200 chip was capable of, at that development stage. While the product is still some time away from becoming available to consumers, there are reports claiming that the technology has been delayed from market availability due to int...

13 November 2009
05:55 GMT

LG Details the XPION 30 Series of Desktop PCs

The desktop PC industry might have seen better days, compared to the current situation, but some system builders remain consistent and continue to release new models that boast the traditional form factor. Such is the case with one of the world's leading vendors of consumer electronics, LG, which has just annou...

11 November 2009
06:06 GMT

NVIDIA CEO Caught with a Mysterious Tablet

Back when Apple first introduced its new generation of computer systems, NVIDIA was proud to announce that it would be powering the graphics inside most of Apple's Mac systems. That was certainly a big day for NVIDIA, which basically won this right by launching a high-end graphics chipset that had a high pe...

10 November 2009
03:17 GMT

NVIDIA Will Be Fashionably Late in Launching Fermi

Although the next-generation CUDA architecture developed by NVIDIA was, and is, the subject of desire for many consumers, it seems that it will continue to be looked forward to for quite a while. People had hopes that the rumors concerning the delays were false, hopes that NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang completely dispell...

9 November 2009
07:07 GMT

No NVIDIA x86 Processor, Company's CEO Claims

While the whole world is likely waiting for the debut of NVIDIA's first consumer-grade, Fermi-based graphics processing units, the company's CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, goes along and dismisses some of the recurring rumors that have been circulating on the Internet. One of these rumors claims that the Santa Clara,...

9 November 2009
04:09 GMT

NVIDIA's Q3 FY2010 Revenue Up 16 Percent

NVIDIA has recently announced its financial results for the third quarter of the fiscal year 2010, with a reported revenue of US$903.2 million, representing an increase of 16 percent from the previous quarter and up from US$897.7 million, recorded in Q3 FY2009. According to the Santa Clara, California-based graphics ...

6 November 2009
08:52 GMT

Dual-Core Tegra 2 Scheduled to Arrive in 2010

NVIDIA's Tegra has gained an impressive amount of popularity over the course of the last few months, especially for having powered Microsoft's highly appreciated Zune HD media player. On that note, the Santa Clara, California-based chip maker is preparing to update its Tegra family of processors with the mu...

6 November 2009
05:19 GMT

Windows 7 and Nvidia GPUs Make Touch Feel More Immersive

There is little doubt that, at least as far as human-computer interaction models go, Windows 7 takes UX to a whole-new level. Windows Vista’s successor is the first Windows client that features multi-touch technology out of the box, an indication of the company’s vision to standardize natural user interfa...

3 November 2009
12:13 GMT

Download GeForce 195.39 Beta Drivers with OpenCL 1.0 Support

The Santa Clara, California-based graphics chip maker NVIDIA has just updated its GeForce drivers support page with the introduction of a new series of Beta drivers. Coming in the form of the GeForce 195.39 Beta series of drivers, the new release offers support for the latest operating systems, including Window...

3 November 2009
02:54 GMT

NVIDIA's GeForce GT 240 Said to Launch on November 17th

Aside from the much-anticipated line of Fermi-based GeForce graphics cards, NVIDIA is also scheduled to reveal another model, namely the GeForce GT 240, aimed at the mainstream market and built using the company's new generation of 40nm graphics processors. According to the most recent rumors that have surfaced ...

30 October 2009
10:33 GMT

NVIDIA and AMD to Be Affected by TSMC's 40nm Yield Problems

The world's two leading vendors of graphics processing units, NVIDIA and AMD, are expected to be faced with GPU shipment delays due to new 40nm yield issues that have recently been reported by the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). Although these issues are expected to be solved within the quarte...

30 October 2009
09:39 GMT

NVIDIA's GeForce Fermi GF100 GPU to Launch in Early December

NVIDIA's consumer-ready, Fermi-based GeForce graphics cards are most likely among the most anticipated products this year, as they are said to provide users with an increased level of performance, as well as new features. Although previous rumors indicated that the said cards would be available on November 28, i...

29 October 2009
12:06 GMT

NVIDIA's GeForce 3xxM Series Leaks Online

Despite the fact that the Santa Clara, California-based graphics chip maker NVIDIA has already announced the introduction of its next-generation Fermi architecture, the company has yet to unveil its first consumer products to take advantage of the benefits and features enabled by said architecture. However, this only...

28 October 2009
11:13 GMT

NVIDIA ION 2 Scheduled for Q4 2009 Release

The netbook and nettop market segments continue to grow, as chip makers are expected to update their portfolios with new solutions that should enable better performance and power consumption. Such is the case with graphics chip maker NVIDIA, which is currently expected to update its ION platform with the much-anticip...

27 October 2009
10:38 GMT

ASUS Launches Its First Supercomputer, Packed with NVIDIA Graphics

ASUS, one of the world's leading vendors of computer hardware and consumer-grade computer systems, has recently announced the debut of its first supercomputer, a desktop-sized system that mixes Intel's latest Xeon processors with a number of NVIDIA graphics processors to deliver speeds of up to 1.1 teraflop...

27 October 2009
06:28 GMT

MSI and NVIDIA Working on Tegra-Based e-Book Reader

The market for e-book readers appears to be expanding as a number of companies are showing their interest in developing such devices of their own. Such is the case with Taiwanese hardware manufacturer MSI, which has recently announced that it is currently working on the development of an e-book reader designed to tak...

27 October 2009
05:55 GMT

New Dual-GPU EVGA Graphics Card to Be Launched on Halloween

EVGA and NVIDIA, two of the world's biggest names in the graphics card industry, have jointly announced that they will host a Halloween party where they will make public the launch of a new graphics card. Unfortunately, the specific technical details of the new product haven't yet been announced, but there ...

22 October 2009
08:20 GMT

NVIDIA Tesla Graphics to Enable Cloud-Based Applications

While most of you are probably waiting for NVIDIA's next-generation GeForce graphics cards, namely those high-end, Fermi-based products, the Santa Clara, California-based graphics chip maker continues to expand its product portfolio with new solutions that are designed to leverage the company's expertis...

21 October 2009
11:01 GMT

Batman Arkham Asylum and the PhysX

There's not really a lot you can say on Batman: Arkham Asylum that hasn't yet crossed the globe a few times. It is the best comic book-inspired video up to date – and even has a world record to prove it – and it's a very good game on its own as well. The title managed to combine the stealth...

17 October 2009
09:01 GMT

Mobinnova Tegra-Powered Smartbook to Be Announced at CES 2010

Earlier this year, there were various reports on some of the upcoming computer systems that would be powered by NVIDIA's Tegra System-on-Chip product. One of these machines was the Mobinnova 'elan', an ultraportable that falls in the new smartbook category of portable computer systems. Unfortunately, u...

15 October 2009
04:30 GMT

Rumor Mill: NVIDIA Tegra Inside Next-Generation Nintendo DS

NVIDIA is a company that has been mostly about graphics, something that has been confirmed over the years by its successful products, such as those high-end GeForce cards. However, the Santa Clara, California-based chip maker is looking to expand its horizons with the help of new products, such as the Tegra chip. Thi...

14 October 2009
05:26 GMT

BFG 18.4-Inch Deimos X-10 Is a Gaming Behemoth with Two GPUs

As mentioned in previous articles, the PC gaming industry is pretty much the place where you can search for the latest in hardware components and high-end computer systems. Companies go all out on releasing above mainstream products that are designed to provide users with the latest components on the market, conseque...

13 October 2009
07:02 GMT

ION 2 Ships in 2009 with Support for VIA's Nano Processors

Since earlier this year, there have been reports according to which NVIDIA is planning on releasing the second generation of its ION platform, which is essentially a chipset that allows PC manufacturers to develop low-power and compact computer systems that deliver the necessary performance to run some of today'...

9 October 2009
06:06 GMT

NVIDIA Postpones Chipset Investments, Blames It All on Intel

More than one year ago, there were reports on the Internet that claimed NVIDIA would soon announce it would get out of the global chipset market, a claim that was never confirmed by the company. Later on, NVIDIA announced that it had entered a legal dispute with Intel, the world's leading chip maker, according t...

9 October 2009
04:09 GMT

CUDA-Powered Anti-Virus Scanning Is in Development

For a while now, NVIDIA, the Santa Clara, California-based designer of graphics processing units, has been expressing its intentions of enabling a wider range of applications to take advantage of the massively parallel architecture of its line of GPUs. At this time, CUDA is one of NVIDIA's main priorities, as th...

7 October 2009
09:34 GMT

MAINGEAR Adopts NVIDIA's Power of 3 Configuration on Three New Systems

MAINGEAR Computers, one of the most recognizable names in the industry for custom-built gaming and high-performance computer systems, has just announced that it has launched a series of three computer systems that have been specifically built to provide users with a choice for NVIDIA's Power of 3 configuration. ...

7 October 2009
04:42 GMT


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