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NVIDIA GPUs power world's fastest supercomputer

(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 ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 29, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (29) | comments 9 | with audio podcast weblog

Nvidia chip team gets 25 million dollars from US military

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.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 10, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (28) | comments 14

NVIDIA dresses up CUDA parallel computing platform

(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, ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 28, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (17) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

Nvidia shows off Kal-El -- new quad-core processing chip

(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 ...

Electronics / Hardware

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 7 | with audio podcast report

Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core chip stokes tablet wars

(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 ...

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created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Nvidia releases the Kal-El quad-core mobile chip

(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 ...

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created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 16 | with audio podcast weblog

Nvidia says Kal-El chip will have five cores

(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. ...

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created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 10 | with audio podcast report

Acer announces the Iconia Tab A500 with Android 3.0 Honeycomb

(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 ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Feb 14, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast weblog

New NVIDIA Tesla GPUs Reduce Cost Of Supercomputing By A Factor Of 10

NVIDIA Corporation today unveiled the Tesla 20-series of parallel processors for the high performance computing (HPC) market, based on its new generation CUDA processor architecture, codenamed "Fermi".

Electronics / Hardware

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Graphics chips speed up medical imaging

Beyond just jazzing up video games, one of the growing array of applications being found for the powerful graphics-oriented chips that Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices sell is in speeding up medical imaging, which can be ...

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created Sep 04, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

NVIDIA Unveils Next Generation CUDA GPU Architecture -- Codenamed 'Fermi'

NVIDIA Corp. today introduced its next generation CUDA GPU architecture, codenamed "Fermi". An entirely new ground-up design, the "Fermi" architecture is the foundation for the world’s first computational graphics processing ...

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created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Nvidia Adds Five New GPU's to Their Mobile Line

Nvidia adds five new GPU's to their mobile GeForce lineup. These new chips have up to twice the performance and half the power consumption of previous chips.

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created Jun 15, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 weblog

Nvidia trumpets Tegra 3 phone design wins for 2012

(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 ...

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created May 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Nvidia says Kai platform will turn price tide for tablets

(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 ...

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created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Acer goes deep with 3-D laptop for gaming, movies

(AP) -- With the launch of Windows 7 this week, PC makers are trying some new things, including laptops with touch screens. Acer Inc. is going further - introducing a laptop with a 3-D screen.

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created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Nvidia

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA, pronounced /ɛnˈvɪ.di.ə/), a multinational corporation, specializes in the development of graphics processing units and chipset technologies for workstations, personal computers, and mobile devices. Based in Santa Clara, California, the company has become a major supplier of integrated circuits (ICs) such as graphics processing units (GPUs) and chipsets used in graphics cards, and video-game consoles and personal-computer motherboards.

Notable Nvidia product-lines include the GeForce series for gaming, the Quadro series for computer aided design and for digital content creation on workstations, and the nForce series of integrated motherboard chipsets.

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