Independent Games Festival dará US$10 mil ao melhor jogo para o iPhone OS X
BLOG.MACMAGAZINE — ... O IGF, originalmente criado com o apoio da NVIDIA, não está apenas oferecendo um prêmio exclusivo para os jogos criados para iPhones e iPods touch, como também está expandindo a participação destes em todas as outras categorias, como “Melhor Jogo”, “Melhor Arte Gráfica” e “Melhor Áudio”. ...

Novas informações apontam placas NVIDIA GeForce nos novos MacBooks
BLOG.MACMAGAZINE — O momento não é muito bom para ela, mas os primeiros rumores — que já haviam sido corroborados posteriormente — mais uma vez ressurgem na mídia e indicam que os novos MacBooks trarão, de fato, chipsets gráficos da NVIDIA. De acordo com o PC Perspective, a NVIDIA lançará no próximo dia 15 os novos chipsets GeForce 9400 e 9300, baseados no chipset integrado MCP79; com o evento da Apple marcado para o dia anterior, é bem provável que Heil Jobs! tenha exigido que o anúncio oficial não fosse feito antes ...

NVIDIA GeForce 9400M: novo processador gráfico da NVIDIA
BLOG.MACMAGAZINE — ... Steve Jobs anunciou hoje que a Apple trabalhou em parceria com a NVIDIA para apresentar um novo processador gráfico integrado, que passa agora a ser usado nos notebooks da Maçã: o NVIDIA GeForce 9400M. Ele terá 256MB de memória SDRAM compartilhada com a do notebook. ...

Apple goes Nvidia with MacBooks
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Hardware, Odds and ends, Macbook Pro, MacBookThe day we gamers have been waiting for is finally here -- Apple is announcing at their event right now that the new MacBooks (and presumably Pros) that they'll be releasing will have Nvidia graphics chips inside them, finally replacing the integrated graphics chips that have been the bane of 3D gamers on the Mac for years and years. The "NVIDIA GeForce 9400 M" boasts 16 parallel graphic cores, and 54gflops of graphics performance. "It's a stunner," says Steve, ...

Nvidia launches new chip sets in broadside at Intel
VentureBeat — ... The new chip sets will be able to run high-definition video, including Blu-ray discs (as long as the machines also incorporate Blu-ray drives). It can also run certain programs such as Adobe’s high-end Photoshop better because of support for Nvidia’s CUDA programming language, which is built into the chip set. The chip set also supports other technologies previously built only into high-end graphics chips, such as physics support and support for hybrid SLI (using more than one graphics chip in a computer). ...

NVidia Massively Communicates on its Partnership with Apple
HardMac.com — Exactly 24 hours after Steve's keynote, NVidia officially unveiled and provided additional details on its new Centrino 2-dedicated chipset, the GeForce 9400M which are now powering all new Apple MacBook models. ...

Benchmarks: The New MacBook and Games
PC World Latest Technology News — ... 's new Nvidia graphics subsystem performs. The verdict is in: The Nvidia GeForce 9400M graphics chip makes the MacBook a capable and affordable action gaming laptop--finally. And the new Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT graphics chip in the ...

Elemental launches its “Badaboom” video conversion software
VentureBeat — ... today as a tool that can quickly convert video so that it can be transferred faster from a computer to another gadget. The cool thing about it is that it doesn’t require a special custom video chip to do this. Rather, Elemental’s software taps the unused power of the graphics chip, the Nvidia GPU (graphics processing unit) with the CUDA programming language. ...

Does Nvidia Motherboard Hint at Mac Mini's Future?
PC World Latest Technology News — Nvidia this week introduced a desktop variation of the same motherboard design that debuted as part of Apple's new MacBook and MacBook Pro last week. Introduced Monday, the new GeForce 9-Series motherboards are coming from leading PC manufacturers this month. Apple 's newest MacBook and MacBook Pro systems both share a motherboard design that features a motherboard-based graphics processing unit, or, in Nvidia 's parlance, an mGPU. This enables the machines to work faster than previous MacBook systems could while still conserving energy, ...

Elemental launches its “Badaboom” video conversion software
VentureBeat — ... today as a tool that can quickly convert video so that it can be transferred faster from a computer to another gadget. The cool thing about it is that it doesn’t require a special custom video chip to do this. Rather, Elemental’s software taps the unused power of the graphics chip, the Nvidia GPU (graphics processing unit) with the CUDA programming language. ...

Nvidia introduces Quadro FX 470 , Quadro FX 370 GP
Macsimum News — Posted by Dennis Sellers Nvidia has introduced the Nvidia Quadro FX 470, an integrated professional motherboard GPU (graphics processing unit), and Nvidia Quadro FX 370 Low Profile (Quadro FX 370 LP), an entry-level Quadro graphics boards for small form factor systems. No word on if or when they might appear in Macs.

Nvidia pitches “personal supercomputers” to scientists
VentureBeat — ... As Nvidia’s graphics chips are enlisted to handle computational tasks in supercomputers, the chip maker is finding there is a new class of machines emerging: the personal supercomputer. ...

Nvidia introduces Quadro FX 4800
Macsimum News — Posted by Dennis Sellers No one on if or when it might appear in a Mac Pro (it would have to be a Mac Pro with the price tag), but Nvidia has introduced the US$1,999 Quadro FX 4800 ultra-high-end professional graphics card.

NVIDIA PhysX Technology Licensed by 2K and EA
I4U News — ... effects add flapping banners, curtains, and plastic sheeting. When glass is shot the shards fly around realistically and window blinds or curtains flail about. The PhysX effects add significantly to the realism of the game. "NVIDIA and 2K Games are dedicated to advancing technology that powers gaming," said Ujesh Desai, vice president of GeForce desktop business at NVIDIA. "We look forward to working with the leaders in the industry to bring some amazing new games to market." Via NVIDIA Posted on Tue, 9 Dec 2008 10:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun ...

Nvidia Ion Supercharges Netbooks With 5X Faster Graphics and Full HD Video [Nvidia Ion]
Gizmodo — ... with comparable battery life to current systems. Bad news? We won't see Ion netbooks until about midway through 2009, and when we do they're going to cost a bit more than other netbooks—"within $50" of standard netbook pricing, since Nvidia is positioning them as "premium" netbooks, whatever the hell that means. And this still doesn't help netbooks' other serious shortcomings, like multitasking or crummy keyboards. But at least they'll suck just a little bit less. [Nvidia] ...

NVIDIA's website now offers laptop driver downloads
Obsessable News Feed — ... You can look forward to better graphics performance in games and other high-power stuff if your laptop has an NVIDIA graphics processing unit (GPU). Drivers are bits of software that tell your computer's operating system (like Windows, Linux, or OS X) how to most effectively use a specific piece of hardware. In the past NVIDIA's laptops drivers have only been available through the laptop manufacturers (such as Dell or Asus), but NVIDIA is finally ready to support nearly all laptops that feature its hardware, offering the drivers on its own website as ...

Nvidia to bring 9400M GPU to netbooks
Gadgetspy — ... when compared to bringing a full-sized laptop. Of course, netbooks are not entirely perfect. As a gamer, I find that netbooks do not address my needs. It lacks that added power to run the more graphics intensive games. I’ve tried running some old Windows 98 games on the netbook with minimal problems but one can’t just play the oldies all the time. That’s why I think it’s great news for netbook users that by next year we will see netbooks that sport beefier graphics chips. Nvidia ( http://www.nvidia.com ) has announced that it will be pairing the Intel Atom processor (the ...

NVIDIA 3D Vision announced at CES 2009
I4U News — ... , Mitsubishi DLP HDTVs, and the DepthQ HD 3D Projector by Lightspeed Design, Inc, 3D Vision unlocks crystal-clear, flicker-free 3D stereo imagery perfect for driving new experiences in 3D gaming, 3D movies, and 3D photography. 3D Vision for GeForce is available starting today. Via the NVIDIA site . More ...

Nvidia showcases GeForce 3D Vision at CES 2009
T3.com All — ... the gap in between gets translated as depth. The best part is, Nvidia claim that this system can turn anything with depth information (eg. All 3D computer games anywhere) into 3D. Downsides? The system needs a lot of computer horsepower to run smoothly 9since the screen refreshes at double-speed: 120 fps), and compatible screens will be expensive, but overall this is the most convincing home-based 3D system we ve seen so far. Click to launch the Nvidia glasses gallery Link: Nvidia | T3 s CES coverage is powered by Canon [image] T3 at CES 2009 The only ...

Nvidia hires Stanford’s computer science department head as chief scientist
VentureBeat — Nvidia has named Stanford University’s computer science department chairman, Bill Dally, as chief scientist and vice president of Nvidia research. The hire is a big one for the graphics chip maker since Dally is a well-known computer graphics pioneer. He replaces David Kirk, who held the post for a long time and is now going to be an Nvidia Fellow. The move is consistent with Nvidia’s decision to invest heavily in research and development even in the steep downturn. Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, said at a press dinner ...

Will Intel let Jen-Hsun Huang spread graphics beyond PCs?
VentureBeat — ... Nvidia chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang is on a missoni to get graphics chips into everything from handheld computers to smart phones.  In a dinner with reporters on Monday night, the head of the Santa Clara, Calif.-based graphics chip maker said that the company is going to invest heavily in research and development and announce some interesting hires (see announcement story) soon. ...

Top Linuxy Alternatives and Staying True to FOSS
LinuxInsider — ... lot of people did, especially when I got involved," drinkypoo said. "By no means one of the earliest adopters, I began with Slackware 2.0 (on floppy disks) on my 386DX25 with 8MB RAM and 120MB disk. I'd had other experiences with Unix before (including SCO Xenix on a 286 with 1MB RAM and 40MB disk, and SunOS on a 4/260) and was amazed that my bucket-of-bolts PC could provide me with X11, Netscape AND a compiler." Today, however, "my primary computer runs Windows XP because the binary nVidia (Nasdaq: NVDA) ...

2009 Mobile World Congress
dailywireless.org — The 2009 Mobile World Congress, in Barcelono Feb 16-19, is expected to attract approximately 50,000 attendees. It combines the world’s largest exhibition for the mobile industry and prominent leaders and personalities from mobile operators and equipment vendors. Their Show Daily, Newsroom and vendor press releases have some of the highlights. ...

Nvidia scores a couple of deals with Wintel
VentureBeat — ... On another front, it’s no secret that Intel is in a quiet war with the other member of Wintel. Nvidia’s graphics chips and Intel’s microprocessor are in a tug of war over who owns the PC. Well, today, Intel is taking a license from Nvidia to get access to Nvidia’s SLI technology. SLI is a chip set feature that allows a computer to use multiple graphics chips at the same time, ganged together, to get better overall graphics performance. Now Intel will license SLI for use in Intel chip sets that sit on the Intel DX58SO motherboard for the Intel Core i7 ...

Nvidia enables $99 Android/Windows CE mobile internet devices
VentureBeat — Nvidia is announcing today that it wants to enable $99 mobile internet devices that can play high-definition graphics. The so-called MIDs are smaller than laptop computers but less functional. Their primary purpose is to display web pages on a screen that ranges from four to 12 inches. The way Nvidia envisions them, they’ll run either Google’s Android or Microsoft’s Windows CE operating systems. They’ll also use Nvidia’s Tegra chips, which combine mobile phone and computing capabilities on a ...

Nvidia: Turbo Boost for Android and WinMobile
dailywireless.org — NVIDIA today introduced a new platform, based on the NVIDIA Tegra 600 Series computer-on-a-chip that enables a $99, always-on, always-connected HD mobile internet device (MID) that can go days between battery charges. It’s not a product yet. NVIDIA says its platform will enable OEMs to quickly build and bring to market devices that carriers can offer for as low as $99 and deliver mobile HD content. Microsoft is collaborating with NVIDIA as is ST-Ericsson to add 3G communication ...

Nvidia takes on Intel over chipset (dis) agreement
Macsimum News — ... Nvidia Corp. has responded to a Monday court filing (Court of Chancery in the State of Delaware) in which Intel alleged that the four-year-old chipset license agreement the companies signed does not extend to Intel’s future generation CPUs with “integrated” memory controllers, such as Nehalem. The filing doesn’t impact Nvidia... ...

GamesBeat 09: More great speakers lined up
VentureBeat — ... Other speakers include Tony Tamasi, senior vice president of content and technology at Nvidia; Richard Huddy, director of game developer relations at Advanced Micro Devices; Eric Goldberg of Crossover Technologies; Colin Sebastian, an analyst at ...

Moore's Law and open source
Open Source — ... Sure you can make it up on volume, but that capital requirement has been steadily squeezing out competitors — PowerPC, Motorola, now AMD. The fastest-growing chip companies are now “fab-less,” which does not mean they dress well but that they lack a fabrication plant or “fab” of their own. They share. ...

BNP Paribas Uses Graphics Cards to Price Derivatives
TechWeb — ... the implemented a new GPU-based architecture that the firm says simultaneously reduces electricity consumption and accelerates calculation times. A significant portion of the calculations, about one teraflop (one thousand billion calculations per second), performed for Global Equities and Commodity Derivatives is transferred to a graphical processing unit based platform. This allows a 100-fold increase in the amount of calculation achieved per watt. This new platform, containing two Nvidia Tesla S1070 modules consuming 2kW, will replace more than 500 traditional CPU cores ...

Nvidia launches GPU Ventures Program to foster startups
VentureBeat — Nvidia is trying to stoke its own product ecosystem today as it launches the GPU Ventures Program to identify, support and in invest in early stage companies. The investments will focus on GPU (graphics processing unit) applications such as video programs that tap the computing power of the graphics chip. Through Nvidia’s CUDA programming environment, the GPUs can now be used to handle non-graphics computing tasks and software companies are only just beginning to exploit that, said Jeff Herbst, vice president of business development at ...

Nvidia looking for ‘next great GPU computing company’
Macsimum News — ... Nvidia has launched the GPU Ventures Program, a new global initiative whose aim is to identify, support and invest in early stage companies leveraging the GPU (graphics processing unit) for visual and other computing applications. Nvidia is also launching the GPU Venture Zone web site, a portal to publicly showcase... ...

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MotionDSP launches vReveal tool to clear up blurry home movies
VentureBeat — ... ’s CUDA software programming environment. The graphics chip enables vReveal to run five times faster than it otherwise would on the microprocessor. ...

Nvidia fires back at Intel with chip set countersuit
VentureBeat — Nvidia filed a countersuit against Intel today, alleging that Intel broke contract when it refused to grant Nvidia a chip set license on future Intel computer. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Nvidia alleged that Intel broke its contract when it said that Nvidia no longer had a license to make chip sets for Intel’s newest microprocessors. Nvidia is asking that the courts allow the graphics chip maker to terminate its own contracts with Intel, which sued Nvidia last month. The companies signed a ...

NVidia files countersuit against Intel for breach of contract
Macsimum News — Posted by Dennis Sellers NVdia has filed a countersuit in the Court of Chancery in the State of Delaware against Intel breach of contract. The action also seeks to terminate Intel’s license to NVidia’s patent portfolio.

Acer Revo and Nvidia Ion Hands On: Flawless Blu-ray Playback Changes Cheap Computers Forever [Future Of Cheap Pcs]
Gizmodo — ... showed early Ion samples delivering fantastic video performance but not so great battery life. This isn't as big of a deal for mini desktop, obviously, so a real niche for Ion machines could be cheap media PCs to plug into TVs—the Revo seems ideal for it, and even comes with a mounting bracket to snap onto the backs of TVs and monitors. But if this or something like it comes out at $400, it's the first kind of "net" computer I'd actually consider buying. [Nvidia Acer] ...

Acer Debuts First NVIDIA Ion PC
OhGizmo! — ... The Ion engine has an Atom CPU with an NVIDIA GPU and is capable of HD video conversion. Processing of HD video is handled by the integrated GPU. The machine supports Vista Home Premium, outputs full 1080p video and 7.1 surround sound. Acer says that it will play games like Spore, Call of Duty 4, and Sim City 4 and is DirectX 10 compatible. Blu-ray playback is supported with an external Blu-ray player. Pricing and availability are unknown. [ NVIDIA ] ...

Intel chief describes the shape of the computer industry’s recovery
VentureBeat — ... With the shift to 32nm this year, Otellini said it will be possible to integrate both the chip set and the graphics chip onto a single piece of silicon with the microprocessor. That will spell trouble for graphics chip makers such as Nvidia, which doesn’t have all the pieces to integrate into a single chip. Intel is able to shift to 32nm earlier because it stepped up its capital investments. It said earlier this year it will spend $7 billion on new chip factories over the next couple of years. ...

Can graphics chip startup Caustic nab itself loyal developers?
VentureBeat — ... the San Francisco company is creating a 3-D graphics chip that can handle ray tracing, a technique that can produce highly realistic graphics. The initial target customers are movie animators, special effects houses, and product engineers. The company will be interesting to watch because it will test whether or not there is still room for innovation by startups in a field where there were once 50 startups a decade ago but now there are only three players: Intel, Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices. Caustic hopes to tempt graphics experts with eye candy like ...

Report: Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 graphics card is Mac-bound
Macworld — ... Benchmarks from PC performance sites show that the GeForce GTX 285 significantly outperforms other graphics cards like those available in the Mac Pro, including the ATI Radeon HD 4870 — the current high-water mark for Mac Pro graphics performance, available as either a $200 configure-to-order option for new Mac Pros or as a $349 add-on for existing systems. Indeed, the GTX 285 seems to match or perform slightly better that the 4870 X2 — a two-GPU variant of that ATI card. Neither Nvidia nor EVGA, a graphics card maker whose logo appears emblazoned on the image in Engadget’s ...

Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 May Be Coming To Macs
Inside Mac Games — ... to release a Mac version of its Quadro FX 4800 graphics card — it’s a high-end workstation-class card intended for engineering, 3D visualization, medical science and more. By comparison, the GeForce GTX 285 is consumer-oriented and lacks a 3D stereoscopy interface. To read more click over to the links provided below. Macworld: Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 Mac-Bound Engadget: GeForce GTX For Mac Pros In June Apple NVIDIA

NVIDIA Q1 Fiscal 2010 Financials
I4U News — ... notes that revenue grew 38% when compared to Q4 fiscal 2009. "We made good progress managing expenses and significantly reducing inventory, while continuing to invest in our growth strategies," said Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO of NVIDIA. "The GPU is ever-more central to our computing experience. There are a rapidly growing number of applications that rely on the GPU, and the industry is gearing up to launch the next generation operating systems that adopt GPU computing." Via NVIDIA Posted on Fri, 8 May 2009 10:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun ...

Stepping up graphics war, Intel invests $12 million in German research lab
VentureBeat — ... development. The world’s biggest chip maker took a step in that direction today as it announce that it is investing $12 million in a new research center in Germany. The Intel Visual Computing Institute in Feldkirchen, Germany, is at the Saarland University in Saarbrucken, Germany. The investment will fund research over five years and it represents Intel’s biggest collaboration with a university in Europe. Visual computing is the domain of chip rivals Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices today. But Intel has a huge chip set business with ...

Nvidia scores first major customer for Ion graphics platform
VentureBeat — When Nvidia launched its Ion graphics platform for netbooks and small laptops in December, it landed with a thud. But today, the company is announcing that Lenovo is going to use the platform to create a small laptop with 10 times more graphics horsepower than typical laptops. Ion is a circuit board that combines an Nvidia graphics chip with a chip set. It’s meant to be paired with low-cost processors such as Intel’s Atom microprocessor in low-power computers such as netbooks, which surf the web and are smaller than laptops. ...

Nvidia trumpets success of its Tegra cell phone processors
VentureBeat — ... Nvidia is becoming a real player in portable mobile devices as the industry embraces its Tegra processors. The company is announcing today that some of the world’s biggest gadget manufacturers are designing mobile devices using the Tegra chips. ...

Smartbooks: The New Netbook?
dailywireless.org — ... make ARM processor chips while Nvidia’s Tegra-based handheld devices are expected to begin shipping in the second half of 2009. ...

How to Build Your Own Hackintosh
Maximum PC all RSS Feed — ...  To help you see all your beautiful OS X goodness on screen, ATI and Nvidia cards are supported by the EFI-X. While EFI-X supports the ATI Radeon HD 3870 and Radeon HD 2600 XT cards, ATI knows that Apple is best buds with Nvidia and cautions that ongoing support of these cards is uncertain. Compatible Nvidia cards include the 7000, 8800, and 9800 series graphic cards. We went with a two-year-old PNY XLR8 GeForce 9800 GTX ($140 street, www.nvidia.com) because it’s cheap and readily available. ...

Nvidia GeForce 200M Graphics Cards Just Made Your Notebook Old and Busted [Notebooks]
Gizmodo — ... notebook cards—the GTX 280M and 260M—were for crazy gaming rigs, and were actually based on the previous-gen G92 architecture. (Nvidia did pulled some ...

Smartbooks: Embracing Linux With Open ARMs
LinuxInsider — ... NOK) More about Nokia Tablet user I've been running a variant of Linux on an ARM processor for some time now and I can't wait to get my hands on an ARM netbook." 'I Don't Want Some Half-Assed Toy' Similarly: "The most interesting part is that those devices have integrated CPU / GPU /Video Accel. on a single chip," added moon3. "Something that Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) More about Intel , AMD (NYSE: AMD) More about AMD and nVidia (Nasdaq: NVDA) More about nVidia [have been] pursuing for a long time, but these ARM ...

Mac News Briefs: wineCellar 2.0 adds cloud support for mobile access
Macworld — ... has announced the release of Elemental Accelerator 1.2 for Mac OS X. The software enables Mac Pros equipped with Quadro FX 4800 graphics cards to accelerate the rendering of H.264 video produced by Adobe Premiere CS4. The software, developed by Elemental Technologies, is normally priced at $499, but costs $250 when purchased through Nvidia's Web site (Nvidia is currently have problems with its site, and still lists the price at $499 ).— PC

NVIDIA Reveals Samsung Ion-powered Netbook
I4U News — ... netbook is coming and will be running the NVIDIA Ion platform cramming a 9400M GPU into the netbook chassis. Ion-powered netbooks are finally starting to trickle onto the market. While we aren’t sure odds are the machine sports a 10-inch or larger screen, Intel Atom N270 or N28 CPU, Windows XP, 160GB of storage and 1GB of RAM. That said, with the HD capability of the Ion platform I won’t be surprised to see the screen grow to 11-inches or more to accommodate the HD resolution. Via NVIDIA Posted on Wed, 1 Jul 2009 06:12:36 CDT | by Shane McGlaun ...

Nvidia Releases Mac Update For GeForce FX 4800, GTX 285
Inside Mac Games — ... GeForce GTX 285 is offered by Nvidia manufacturing partner EVGA. It was released in June. The drivers are available for download from EVGA’s Web site. The latest Quadro FX 4800 drivers are available from Nvidia. The Quadro FX 4800 is a workstation-level graphics card offered as an optional add-on from the Apple Store. Head over to the Macworld page below for more information. Macworld: Nvidia Recommends Updating GeForce FX 4800, GTX 285 NVIDIA

NASA restores Apollo 11 moon landing video with graphics technology
VentureBeat — ... The Lowry Digital software tapped Nvidia’s graphics chips with CUDA technology — which allows non-graphics software to tap the processing power of the graphics chips. Now we can watch Neil Armstrong take his giant leap for mankind in high definition. ...

NVIDIA Launches Interactive Ray Tracing Engine
I4U News — ... NVIDIA has announced that it has launched the world's first interactive ray tracing engine. The new engine will join the NVIDIA line of application acceleration engines. The application acceleration engines were unveiled at SIGGRAPH 2009 and include the NVIDIA OptiX ray tracing engine, SceniX engine, CompleX engine, and PhysX engine. The new OptiX ray tracing engine is a programmable ray tracing pipeline that promises to allow software developers to bring new realism to applications using the C programming language. The engine uses the massively parallel power of NVIDIA ...

Nvidia launches interactive ray tracing engine
Macsimum News — Posted by Dennis Sellers Nvidia has introduced the Nvidia OptiX ray tracing engine, part of a suite of application acceleration engines for software developers. Nvidia acceleration engines are designed to make it easy to incorporate valuable, high-performance capabilities into applications, while simultaneously reducing development time.

Nvidia, still dogged by chip defect problem, reports a smaller loss
VentureBeat — ... Nvidia reported better-than-expected revenues for its second fiscal quarter, prompting a 9 percent jump in its stock price in after-hours trading thanks to renewed hopes of a turnaround in personal computing. ...

Licenses, Libraries, Laws and Loopholes
LinuxInsider — ... its copyright of the system libraries of Windows to control who can write software for that operating system, Travers pointed out. "However, if one creates alternate map files for a video game, the resulting audiovisual display might be a derivative work of the original video game," he noted. "This would be the same thing even if the files' information was dynamically served from a distant network server to the game, so no linking would be involved." Similarly, "it is hard to see how nVidia's (Nasdaq: NVDA) ...

The economy changes the course of chip design at Hot Chips conference
VentureBeat — ... Parallel computing — or doing lots of things at the same time with multiple processors on a chip — is the subject of multiple talks including the keynote speech by Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive of graphics chip maker Nvidia. He will talk about Nvidia’s multi-year crusade to use the parallel computing capabilities of graphics chips to handle chores beyond graphics. The so-called GPU computing (graphics processing unit) trend has taken off in the past couple of years and is starting to see mainstream usage in applications such as fixing flaws in video imagery. ...

ASRock ION 330-BD Nettop Review
SlashGear — Where netbooks go, their deskbound nettop brethren eventually follow, and as NVIDIA’s Ion GPU has made its impact on the graphics capabilities of budget ultraportables, so it has its sights set on compact desktops too. ASRock and NVIDIA worked together on the ION 330-BD, a Blu-ray toting nettop that pairs Intel’s Atom processor with the GeForce 9400M, and sent one over to prove to SlashGear that just because the footprint is small, it doesn’t mean the performance is too. First impressions are good, ...

HP’s new netbook gives Nvidia’s Ion a foot in the door
VentureBeat — ... The new HP Mini 311 will be a rare example of a major computer maker adopting Nvidia’s Ion graphics platform, which uses a low-power graphics chip to deliver a better high-definition video experience. Netbooks are smaller than traditional laptops and are targeted at consumers who just want to read email and cruise the web. ...

LucidLogix marries graphics chips that hate each other
VentureBeat — The graphics chip market is an exclusive club with only a few big members: Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia. But Israeli startup LucidLogix Technologies hopes to break into the club with its innovative Hydra 200 chip. That chip enables a game or other program to take advantage of all of the 3-D graphics chips in a computer, even if those graphics chips are different types or come from different vendors. Hence, a user could have a PC with an AMD graphics board and an Nvidia graphics board, and still make use of them. To date, whenever ...

Unchallenged by Nvidia, AMD makes the world’s most powerful graphics chips — and it ships them too
VentureBeat — ... Nvidia could challenge that statement, which comes from AMD’s graphics chief Rick Bergman. But it looks like AMD’s rival hasn’t shown up to the party with a graphics chip of its own for the fall season. ...

Bloomberg Uses GPUs to Speed Up Bond Pricing
TechWeb — ... of floating point processors that are good at handling mathematically intensive and parallel processes such as Monte Carlo simulations.) The programmer ran a proof of concept in March 2008 using the cash flow generation part of the algorithm and showed a dramatic increase in performance. That programmer now runs the team of technologists that work on the bond pricing system. Bloomberg went live in 2009 running its two-factor models on a farm of traditional servers paired with nVidia Tesla GPUs. Instead of having to scale up to 1,000 servers, Bloomberg is using 48 server/GPU ...

Nvidia’s graphics chips to be used in national lab’s supercomputer
VentureBeat — ... ’s next-generation graphics chips in a supercomputer that is 10 times more powerful than the lab’s fastest current machine. ...

Nvidia’s iRay shows lifelike graphics, streamed from the cloud
VentureBeat — ... Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive of graphics chip maker Nvidia, showed off the technology at the company’s GPU Technology conference in San Jose, Calif., today. Michael Caplan, a graphics researcher, showed a precisely modeled 3-D image of a room (above) that looked like an office room in the real world. He showed how he could change the sunlight level and, using the iRay technology, immediately make the changes in the scene. Huang said that consumers will ultimately have access to this kind of technology. The iRay technology can thus ...

Rumor suggests Nvidia’s Tegra chip will power the next Nintendo DS
VentureBeat — ... Nvidia has reportedly scored a big coup for its fledgling Tegra chip used to power low-power devices with powerful graphics. The graphics chip company may have snagged a slot for Tegra in the next version of the Nintendo DS. ...

Nvidia introduces Cloud 3D, a service that can vastly improve web-based 3-D animations
VentureBeat — ... Graphics chip maker Nvidia today introduced Cloud 3D, a service that will make it much easier to for developers to access powerful 3-D graphics technology via cloud computing. ...

Web 2.0 Summit: Destruction And Rebirth
TechWeb — ... maker NVIDIA is using the Web. As the Web 2.0 Summit opened, NVIDIA demonstrated its RealityServer, a cloud-based 3D rendering system that offers companies the hardware and ...

Nvidia sees big loss of market share in third quarter as graphics chip sales boomed
VentureBeat — Nvidia saw a steep loss in market share even as graphics chip sales soared 21 percent in the third quarter. The strong overall market was consistent with Intel’s announcement that the PC market saw a strong resurgence in the third quarter, according to market researcher Jon Peddie Research. Peddie said that the strong sales boost — the largest quarter-to-quarter increase in nine years — suggested that the holiday season will be strong for PC sales. In the third quarter, Advanced Micro Devices, which owns the ATI graphics chip ...

Graphics chip maker Nvidia rides on industry recovery
VentureBeat — ... Graphics chip maker Nvidia reported good third fiscal quarter results thanks to the continuing recovery of the personal computer market. The company reported today that revenues came in at $903.2 million for its third fiscal quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $838.1 million. Earnings per share were 19 cents, compared to an expected 10 cents a share. ...

glowing gaming pc for a good cause [casemod]
technabob — ... At the core of the system is an Intel Core i7 975 Extreme Edition CPU, and a pair of nVidia GeForce GTX 295 graphics cards running in SLI mode. The system has 12 GB of DDR3 RAM, and 2.5 TB of hard disk. There’s also a Logitech G19 gaming keyboard, a custom Razer Boomslang mouse, and 13 video games thrown in for good measure. In total, there’s over $10,000 worth of components in this bad boy. Parts and labor for this amazing system were donated by nVidia, ASUS, Crucial, Danger Den, Intel, Performance PCs, ...

An 'Historical Blunder' and Other Tech Turkeys of 2009
LinuxInsider — ... constituency," Hudson concluded. "It doesn't solve any problem that isn't better solved by more open netbooks, or booting a Linux distro off a thumb drive, or using a smartphone." What should Google be doing instead? "Looking at where the world is going to be a decade from now," she asserted. "Hint: 'This is not the cloud you're looking for.'" Nvidia: 'That Is Just So Wrong!' Slashdot blogger hairyfeet had a long list of turkeys on the tip of his tongue. For example: "The way Nvidia (Nasdaq: NVDA) handled the mess with the bad solder was a turkey," hairyfeet told ...

Intel cancels Larrabee consumer graphics chip
VentureBeat — ... The world’s biggest chip maker has been working for years on Larrabee, a chip with dozens of cores for processing graphics. It was the company’s major competitive thrust at Nvidia and the grpaphics division ...

Announcing the winners of the Liliputing Holiday Giveaway
Liliputing — ... The 2009 Liliputing Holiday Giveaway has now drawn to a close. Over the past few weeks we’ve given away some awesome prizes, and I wanted to thank the sponsors once again: NVIDIA, ...

Nvidia Taking Ion Platform to Intel’s Pine Trail
Digital Trends — ... and Nvidia aren’t the best of friends lately, with the companies busily suing each other over breach of contract and chipset licensing issues: Intel claims existing agreements don’t give Nvidia permission to develop graphics solutions for chips like Intel’s ...

Nvidia launches second generation of portable gadget Tegra processors
VentureBeat — Nvidia is today announcing its Tegra 2 processor, a second-generation chip for powerful portable web-connected devices. The new chip, unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show, means that portable devices will not only be able to play high-definition video — which is possible with the original Tegra launched in the middle of last year — it will also enable users to watch hours of HD video streamed to their devices over a web connection, said Michael Rayfield, general manager of Nvidia’s mobile products division. He said that ...

Nvidia declares 2010 to be the year of the tablet
VentureBeat — Nvidia chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang declared that 2010 will be the year of the tablet computer. Of course, that has a lot to do with the fact that the graphics chip maker has a new chip for use in tablet computers, the just announced Tegra 2. Huang spoke at the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip maker’s press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show. About 50 new Tegra-based tablets are in the works, including one that Huang held up. “This year is going to be absolutely wild,” Huang said. Apple has a rumored tablet ...

AMD’s latest mainstream graphics chips could snatch market share from Nvidia
VentureBeat — Nvidia is very late with its graphics chip, code-named Fermi. Meanwhile, Advanced Micro Devices launched its latest graphics chip in September. Today, AMD launched a new graphics card with a version of that new chip for under $100. That means that the pendulum is swinging back toward AMD, which stands to gain market share in the ever-fluid graphics chip war. The newest ATI Radeon HD 5670 has support for the Microsoft DirectX 11 included in Windows 7 and it features the ATI Eyefinity technology, which can power three displays from one graphics card. Nvidia ...

CES 2010: Consumer-Tech Style Meets Business-IT Substance
E-Commerce Times — ... and Nvidia's (Nasdaq: NVDA) Tegra processor portend a bright future for these products. These are critical developments for businesses -- the sole market where tablet technologies have gained much traction. Despite the hoopla surrounding Apple, it's way too early to tell whether tablets will finally cross into wide consumer use. In fact, given the quality of many of the new and planned tablets, I believe it is a gross mistake to automatically cede so nascent a market to any vendor. All things considered, I expect current and emerging developments in this area to ...

Nvidia’s Optimus adjusts your laptop graphics to fit the app
VentureBeat — ... is launching its Optimus technology today in an effort to match your laptop’s graphics horsepower to fit a  given application. ...

Nvidia Optimus Promises Notebooks Best of Integrated and Discrete Graphics
Digital Trends — ... has takn the wraps off its new Optimus technology , which is designed to enable notebook computer users to switch between battery-saving Intel integrated graphics for simple computing desks, then transparently flip over to high-performance Nvidia discrete graphics when they need more performance for video, games, and other demanding applications. But that’s not really new: what’s new about Optimus is that the technology enables the switch to take place on an application-by-application basis, instead of requiring users to restart the computer ...

Nvidia bounces back with profits as PC market recovers
VentureBeat — ... A strong PC market bouyed by demand for Windows 7 computers helped boost Nvidia’s profits for the fourth fiscal quarter ended Jan. 31. ...

Next-Generation Nvidia Ion Powers Up Netbooks With 10x Faster Graphics [Nvidia]
Gizmodo — ... Still, there's no question that any Ion is a step up from the graphics your netbook currently offers, and while there haven't been many hardware announcements yet, there should be over 30 next-gen Ion designs—ranging from netbooks to all-in-ones to nettops—by this summer. You should expect the same $50 premium that you currently pay for an Ion netbook, but for all the added functionality it may well be worth it. [Nvidia] ...

Next-Generation Nvidia Ion Is a Dedicated GPU That Powers Up Netbooks With 10x Faster Graphics [Nvidia]
Gizmodo — ... 3D games, running videos, or using GPU compute applications, Optimus automatically enables the ION GPU. · It will be available starting in April with the Acer Aspire One 532G netbook. · It accelerates a growing list of media-rich applications including Muvee Reveal for making home movies, Badaboom for media conversion, Total Media Theater and PowerDVD 9 for watching HD video or instantly upscaling standard definition video to near-HD quality. [Nvidia] ...

With 10-fold graphics improvement, Nvidia gains dozens of customers for second-generation Ion netbook graphics chip
VentureBeat — ... Graphics chip designer Nvidia is announcing today it has more than 30 customers signed up to use its second-generation Ion chip to provide eye-popping graphics to netbooks. ...

Next-Gen NVIDIA ION GPU has 10x Faster Graphics
Gadget Venue — ... 3D games, running videos, or using GPU compute applications, Optimus automatically enables the ION GPU. · It will be available starting in April with the Acer Aspire One 532G netbook. · It accelerates a growing list of media-rich applications including Muvee Reveal for making home movies, Badaboom for media conversion, Total Media Theater and PowerDVD 9 for watching HD video or instantly upscaling standard definition video to near-HD quality. Via: NVIDIA and Gizmodo Next-Gen NVIDIA ION GPU has 10x Faster Graphics > ...

Nvidia Ion 2 Promises 10x Better Graphics for Netbooks
Digital Trends — Nvidia's Ion 2 platform claims to offer 10 times the performance of Intel's netbook graphics...and Optimus technology means 10 hours of battery life is still possible. Graphics developer Nvidia has ...

LucidLogix raises $8M for boosting game graphics chips
VentureBeat — ... across all available graphics chips in a system. The funding for the Kfar Netter, Israel-based company comes from current investors Rho Ventures, Giza Venture Capital and Genesis Partners. To date, the company has raised $40 million, and it has been able to do so because the company’s products are selling well. LucidLogix needs a lot of money because it is trying to dance among elephants. The company competes with graphics chip makers Advanced Micro Devices, Nvidia, and Intel. But LucidLogix doesn’t make its own graphics chip. Rather, it ...