All the stories tagged with nvidia
Lucid offers a multi-GPU alternative to SLI and CrossFire
09/23/2009, [IDF 2009, SF] Lucid’s Hydra Engine is a hardware solution (a chip) that brings multi-GPU functionality to motherboards, without having to use Nvidia’s SLI or AMD’s CrossFire. Usually, there is a lot of work done in the GPU driver, but [...]
Tegra-powered Samsung M1 unboxing video
09/03/2009, We’ve known that Samsung was going to announce the M1 media player “outside of Korea” and that’s exactly what they did in Germany at IFA. Here’s an unboxing video that shows the device in action. As of now, I don’t [...]
Is NVIDIA’s Tegra the platform for Apple’s Tablet?
08/24/2009, Nvidia’s Mike Rayfield has confirmed that his company is working with an unnamed partner on a Tegra-powered “Media Pad”. A Media pad is defined by Mike Rayfield as being a touch tablet ranging from 7-13 inches in size, with 3G [...]
The Samsung M1 has an Nvidia Tegra too
08/03/2009, Without the Samsung M1, The Zune HD might have been proclaimed the most powerful 3D handheld device in the known universe, but it’s not out yet and it looks like Samsung has the Tegra mojo too. My Korean skills are [...]
CPU against GPU in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
07/28/2009, WSJ’s Don Clark has written an interesting article about how GPUs (graphics processing unit) and CPUs (central processing unit) are competing to be the top processor in Hollywood’s Computer Graphics (CG) business. In “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, ILM [...]
Viewsonic VOT130 Nettop Hands-On
07/28/2009, You remember that Viewsonic had launched a bunch of Atom-based computers? Well, here’s a hands-on video of the VOT130, courtesy of netbooknews.com. This particular Nettop should be capable of playing HD content… that’s certainly smaller than my current living room [...]
ARM-Based Pegatron Netbook Protoype
07/27/2009, Pegatron, a spin-off from ASUS, has been showing a Netbook powered an ARM processor around. This particular model uses an ARM Cortex-A8 design found in a host of gadgets, including the Palm Pre (same design, but not the exact same [...]
Caustic hardware ray-tracing to be shown at SIGGRAPH
07/22/2009, You might have seen the first CausticOne card on this site some time ago: it was a prototype of a hardware ray-tracing accelerator that will be demonstrated at SIGGRAPH this summer. Caustic Graphics is not the first company to try accelerating [...]
Zune HD Runs On Tegra Processor
06/17/2009, Zune HD has been confirmed to be powered by NVIDIA’s Tegra processor by PCPers, making this the first PMP in the world to do so. This piece of news was confirmed by none other than NVIDIA staff themselves (according to [...]
NVIDIA Releases New Laptop GPUS
06/15/2009, In anticipation of Windows 7, NVIDIA has updated its family of GeForce Mobile GPUs with five DirectX 10.1-capable chips. As you can guess, it’s the same semi-conductor story that everyone loves: these chips are smaller (40nm), faster, consume less power [...]
NVIDIA Tegra Powers Sexy New Netbooks, Provides Days of Battery Life
06/01/2009, Gallery 1: hands-on, Gallery 2: designs At Computex, NVIDIA is launching its new Netbook solution based on its handheld Tegra processor. The “computer” itself fits in the size of a DIMM memory module and the basic idea is simple and [...]
Intel Said To Be Using Pricing Pressure Against NVIDIA’s ION
05/21/2009, The NVIDIA Ion platform is quite exciting: who doesn’t want many times the graphics power in a comparable power/thermal envelope? In fact, Intel might even think that it is “too good”, so the company is said to apply deep discounts [...]
3D Gauge Cluster In Vehicles
05/19/2009, NVIDIA and icar have come together by working on a 3D gauge cluster for cars. What you see here is not the completed product but a concept, and if the finished article were to be that stunning, we’re pretty sure [...]
