http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Gamers looking to play this year's hottest PC games at a highly affordable price—with in-game settings cranked up to high—got their wish today with the introduction of the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST GPU. Based on the NVIDIA Kepler architecture and equipped with 768 NVIDIA CUDA cores, the GTX 650 Ti BOOST GPU is available in 2GB and 1GB configurations at an estimated $169 and $149, respectively. http://phys.org/news283675905.html Electronics Thu, 28 Mar 2013 07:51:53 EST news283675905 For all the technological breakthroughs it has produced, Silicon Valley is an architectural wasteland. http://phys.org/news281810418.html Technology Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:40:32 EST news281810418 NVIDIA today announced that Audi's newest auto-infotainment system featuring NVIDIA Tegra technology will be rolled out globally in select vehicles this year. http://phys.org/news276941502.html Electronics Wed, 09 Jan 2013 08:12:10 EST news276941502 TV makers are trotting out sets with "Ultra HD" resolution at the International CES electronics trade show in Las Vegas this week. http://phys.org/news276841976.html Electronics Tue, 08 Jan 2013 04:33:05 EST news276841976 NVIDIA today announced the latest NVIDIA GeForce drivers—R310—double the performance and dramatically reduce game loading times for those gaming on the Linux operating system. http://phys.org/news271495641.html Electronics Wed, 07 Nov 2012 07:27:37 EST news271495641 NVIDIA today introduced two new high-performance GPUs, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 and GeForce GTX 650. These new gaming GPUs deliver the exceptional performance and power efficiency of the award-winning NVIDIA Kepler architecture at price points that will allow more gamers to experience the richness of next-generation PC gaming. http://phys.org/news266829267.html Electronics Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:17:23 EST news266829267 (Phys.org)—Good news: NVIDIA has a technology called Optimus which since its 2010 launch is regarded as a great extender for notebook, netbook, and ultrabooks. Some NVIDIA fans think favorably of Optimus as "awesome" in the way it can tap into the discrete GPU when needed to conserve power. They like the way battery life is preserved as GPU power is switched off when not needed and switched on when needed again. As the company explains, NVIDIA Optimus technology automatically and instantaneously uses the high performance NVIDIA GPU for GPU-Compute applications, video, and 3-D games; and low power integrated graphics for applications such as web surfing or email. The Optimus approach in "dynamic" switching based on application needs is notable and according to reports a growing number of laptops from the commercial majors are equipped with Optimus. http://phys.org/news266125627.html Electronics Thu, 06 Sep 2012 05:20:01 EST news266125627 U.S. semiconductor maker Nvidia Corp. says up to 400,000 users of its forums have had their encrypted passwords compromised in attacks dating back to early July. http://phys.org/news261420869.html Technology Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:54:38 EST news261420869 With a big enough heatsink, can a high-end graphics card be passively cooled? No fan? No noise? China-based manufacturer Colorful showed off its answer, introduced at Computex earlier this month. Colorful has what it says is the world's first passive-cooled GeForce GTX 680 graphics card, the iGame GTX 680 “passive.” Instead of a cooling fan, two very large aluminum heatsinks carry the task of drawing heat away from the core. Colorful set out to eliminate noise completely by a passively cooled graphics card in its iGAME range that uses Nvidia‘s GeForce GTX 680 chipset. http://phys.org/news260165250.html Electronics Fri, 29 Jun 2012 05:08:14 EST news260165250 (Phys.org) -- Nvidia’s competitive war paint has a name, Tegra 3. On the heels of Nvidia announcements about lowering costs of its Tegra 3 processors and Nvidia-enabled tablets running Android Ice Cream Sandwich at $199, Nvidia this week made more Tegra 3 strategy headway, this time issuing announcements for smartphones. The company said that 30 smartphones based on its Tegra 3 system on a chip will be out this year. This is double the number of design wins on Tegra 2 last year. http://phys.org/news257316047.html Electronics Sun, 27 May 2012 05:41:12 EST news257316047 (Phys.org) -- In March, Nvidia gave some signs that they were working to lower the cost of their Tegra 3 processors and they suggested consumers might see prices for Android tablets as low as $199. Connect the dots? At the company’s annual investors meeting last week, the dots connected and are making this week’s news. For those marking the history of the tablet, remember the date, May 21, 2012. That was this meeting date at Santa Clara, where Nvidia management told its audience what strategies and growth were on tap. Vice President of Investor Relations, Rob Csonger, did the tablet talking. http://phys.org/news257052112.html Electronics Thu, 24 May 2012 05:40:01 EST news257052112 (PhysOrg.com) -- Semiconductor company AMD has taken its story of having developed next-generation GPU technology offering a "gorgeous, stunning, breathtaking visual experience" for more elite, serious gamers over to mainstream gamers as well. AMD this week announced a pair of new graphics cards for gaming enthusiasts looking for affordable prices for features that rock. Namely, AMD yesterday announced its Radeon HD 7870 and 7850 video cards. http://phys.org/news250230659.html Electronics Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:40:01 EST news250230659 Technology licensing company Rambus Inc. said Wednesday it has signed a licensing agreement with chip maker Nvidia Corp. to settle a long-running patent dispute. http://phys.org/news247922165.html Technology Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:16:16 EST news247922165 (PhysOrg.com) -- This week’s NVIDIA announcement of a dressed up version of its CUDA parallel computing platform is targeted as a good news message for engineers, biologists, chemists, physicists, geophysicists, and other researchers on fast-track computations using GPUs. The new version features an LLVM (low-level virtual machine)-based CUDA compiler, new imaging and signal processing functions added to the NVIDIA Performance Primitives library and a redesigned Visual Profiler with automated performance analysis and expert guidance. NVIDIA says the new enhancements are ways to advance simulations and computational work for these users. http://phys.org/news246956451.html Technology Sat, 28 Jan 2012 07:50:01 EST news246956451 (PhysOrg.com) -- Nvidia has launched its Tegra 3, the quad-core chip designed for mobile devices. Tech and investor blogs were busy yesterday assessing what this means for upcoming tablets and smartphones as to performance and power efficiency. The Tegra 3 processor provides up to three times the graphics performance of Tegra 2, and up to 61 percent lower power consumption, according to the Santa Clara-based company. http://phys.org/news240123284.html Electronics Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:00:01 EST news240123284 (PhysOrg.com) -- Nvidia says its upcoming Kal-El chip (Tegra 3) will have five cores, not four. The news appeared this week when the Santa Clara company announced a white paper describing the architecture of this system-on-a-chip for mobile computing. http://phys.org/news235886431.html Electronics Thu, 22 Sep 2011 05:50:03 EST news235886431 Tablets made netbooks obsolete almost overnight, and for the most part, it was a mercy killing. http://phys.org/news233505177.html Electronics Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:20:01 EST news233505177 (PhysOrg.com) -- Nvidia, well known for its graphics chips, has made a pretty big statement by releasing a video on Youtube showing the capabilities of its new quad-core processing chip for smartphones and tablets. In the video, a ball, lit from within, moves around a virtual environment, shining its light on the other elements in its surroundings, demonstrating a step up in visual representation of real-time light imagery. Most video games use canned lighting, which means the game only has to show what has already been calculated. With the new chip in place, currently known as the Kal-El (Superman’s real name) the light projected is calculated and displayed (on moving objects yet) as the game is in play, something that requires incredible amounts of calculation at incredible speeds. The chip accomplishes this feat via its new quad-core (four processing units in a single component) processing chip. http://phys.org/news226048677.html Electronics Tue, 31 May 2011 08:18:32 EST news226048677 (PhysOrg.com) -- Nvidia has announced their brand new quad-core mobile processor at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The new processor was given the interestingly superheroic name Kal-El. Just in case you did not read a lot of comic books as a kid, this is the name that Superman was given by his parents on his home planet of Krypton. http://phys.org/news217094146.html Electronics Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:56:19 EST news217094146 (PhysOrg.com) -- Acer is making a new move into the world of tablets. They showed off their new Iconia Tab A500. The device features the Google's Android 3.0 Honeycomb software and an interesting set of hardware specs. The Iconia Tab A500 has a 10.1-inch display, with a a wide viewing angle and a screen that allows for a high degree of color contrast. This, of course, put the new tablet on par with the Motorola Xoom and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, at least for screen size. http://phys.org/news216913652.html Electronics Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:48:06 EST news216913652 Intel Corp.'s decision to pay Nvidia Corp. $1.5 billion for the right to its patents highlights the seismic shifts the semiconductor industry is undergoing. http://phys.org/news213943399.html Technology Tue, 11 Jan 2011 04:44:25 EST news213943399 (AP) -- Intel has agreed to pay $1.5 billion over five years to Nvidia to settle a lawsuit over a key computer technology. Nvidia shares jumped. http://phys.org/news213903418.html Technology Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:37:15 EST news213903418 Slick touchscreen tablet computers and smarter devices for the home and the car took center stage as the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) wrapped up on Sunday. http://phys.org/news213859690.html Electronics Mon, 10 Jan 2011 07:00:01 EST news213859690 Microsoft Corp. confirmed Wednesday that it is developing a version of its main Windows operating system that will run on cell phone chips, providing an alternative for the first time to the chips based on Intel technology. http://phys.org/news213471501.html Technology Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:39:14 EST news213471501 (PhysOrg.com) -- NVIDIA has built the worldэs fastest supercomputer using 7,000 of its graphics processor chips. With a horsepower equivalent to 175,000 laptop computers, its sustained performance is equivalent to 2.5 Petaflops. http://phys.org/news207572659.html Electronics Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:05:25 EST news207572659 (AP) -- Shares of chipmakers Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Nvidia Corp. dropped Tuesday as analysts said demand for computers looks shaky heading into the all-important back-to-school season. http://phys.org/news200674472.html Technology Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:10:02 EST news200674472 Nvidia on Monday said it is leading a team awarded 25 million dollars by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to create a chip that leaves today's super computers in the dust. http://phys.org/news200631568.html Technology Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:01:56 EST news200631568 (PhysOrg.com) -- Apple today unveiled a completely redesigned Mac mini, featuring up to twice the graphics performance, a new HDMI port and a new SD card slot, all in an amazingly compact aluminum enclosure. http://phys.org/news195915368.html Electronics Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:56:31 EST news195915368 NVIDIA today demonstrated 3D video streamed live over the Internet using an NVIDIA 3D Vision PC, Microsoft Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming technology. The demonstration, which streamed the music video 'We Are the World' 3D, at a press conference at Computex, comes at a time when consumer interest in seeing 3D movies is at its highest level ever. http://phys.org/news194546342.html Technology Mon, 31 May 2010 17:39:34 EST news194546342 (AP) -- Shares of Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. jumped Monday after rival Intel Corp. scrapped plans to make a new graphics chip that would have challenged both companies. http://phys.org/news179427430.html Technology Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:10:04 EST news179427430