Articles Tagged “NVIDIA”
NVIDIA reveals Kai: a $199 quad-core tablet project
by Ankit Banerjee on May 23, 2012 5 Comments">5
We’ve seen a slew of low-cost Android 4.0 tablets flooding the market courtesy of some Chinese manufacturers. These devices, that fall in the $100 – $250 price range, are quite impressive in their own right, boasting impressive builds and form factors. The low-cost is thanks to compromises in display resolution, RAM (generally 512MB), cameras, processors (generally single core processors, or 1Ghz dual-core processors). Everything said and done, there is obviously something more attractive about a 1920×1200 display resolution with a 1.5 Ghz quad-core processor. That is, if you can ignore that $600+ price tag. Will there ever be a way …
Nvidia announces the GeForce Grid: a Kepler-based cloud gaming solution
by Mike Andrici on May 18, 2012 0 Comments">0
Although many are still refusing to believe it before they experience it first-hand, cloud gaming is upon us. OnLive, the pioneer of this innovative sector, is the one of the few companies to offer this type of service right now, but as it turns out, there are other companies — some unarguably better positioned in the gaming industry — that were intrigued and inspired by OnLive’s success. In case you’re wondering exactly how intrigued, it suffices to say that in the last quarter of 2011, OnLive claimed to be serving “tens of millions” of users in the US and the …
Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode II is out on Google Play and TegraZone
by Bams Sadewo on May 16, 2012 1 Comments">1
Nintendo may have the plumbing power of Mario on its side, but Sega has the cooler and faster Sonic the Hedgehog, one of the world’s most celebrated game icons. Making the jump from console to the Android platform seemed to take forever, but when Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode I finally made it to Android, the game was well worth the wait. It’s no wonder why the sequel of the game is so eagerly anticipated by Android gamers worldwide. Now, blue hedgehog fans, you’re just in luck, as Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode II was launched today exclusively for Tegra-3 …
War preparations? Nvidia and Intellectual Ventures bought 500 wireless patents from IPWireless
by Bams Sadewo on May 15, 2012 0 Comments">0
In an increasingly hostile business environment, it seems Nvidia has found its safe haven in patent licensing firm Intellectual Ventures. The two have joined forces to buy 500 patents related to LTE, LTE-Advanced, and 3G/4G technologies from IPWireless. The ownership of the patents is equally divided between the two companies, while IPWireless gets to retain perpetual, royalty-free access to the wireless technology patents. Nvidia will be granted licensing rights for the patents that it didn’t acquire. According to Nvidia executive vice president and general counsel David Shannon, the acquisition of the patents from IPWireless will complement the company’s ownership of …
Tegra 3 + LTE devices coming in Q3 2012, says Nvidia
by Bams Sadewo on Apr 21, 2012 0 Comments">0
Feeling the pinch from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4, Samsung’s Exynos 4412, and other SoC debutants, Nvidia plans to follow up its quad-core Tegra 3 processor with a Tegra 3+ this year. The news was revealed by Nvidia general manager Mike Rayfield during a tech conference in Seattle. Speaking to PC World, Rayfield stated that the Tegra 3+ will be “a pretty significant bump” from its predecessor and “it’ll be high performance.” But that’s not all that Nvidia has up its sleeve. An updated version of Tegra 3 will come with an integrated LTE modem, which would open the lucrative North American …
Mobile GPUs to be on-par with consoles in a couple of years? NVIDIA says it’s possible
by Adrian Diaconescu on Apr 21, 2012 0 Comments">0
Once upon a time, mobile phones used to weigh a couple of pounds (literally), feature large antennas, and very basic designs, and were used primarily to make and receive voice calls. Today’s smartphones are as much gaming machines and music players as they are devices for managing calls. However, mobile gaming is still far off from the quality of console or PC games and you might think that things will stay that way for a long, long time. If we are to believe NVIDIA’s claims, though, this situation could well change in the (very) near future, with mobile GPU (graphics …
Why NVIDIA is going to have a stellar year
by Adrian Diaconescu on Apr 04, 2012 0 Comments">0
NVIDIA is one of the most well-known, respected and established names in the industry of graphics processing manufacturing. While this may be true, the US-based company has struggled to gain profitability due to a variety of environmental and economic events of the past few years. After being named Forbes’ “Company of the Year’’ in 2007, Jen-Hsun Huang’s electronics giant entered into a slippery slope of economic decline, constantly reporting quarterly losses and dips in revenue. While most companies would have cut costs and considered thinking of reducing production, NVIDIA did exactly the opposite. While the GeForce GPU product line has …
Qualcomm’s quad-core Snapdragon S4 to power ultra-light Windows 8 notebooks
by Mike Andrici on Apr 04, 2012 1 Comments">1
Although Qualcomm’s dual-core Snapdragon S4 (based on the ARM Cotrex A15 architecture) holds out well against other competitors in the smartphone / tablet SoC market, such as the Nvidia Tegra 3, it looks like Qualcomm is about to release a quad-core version as well, one that will target the ultra-portable laptop market, as well as the next generation of superphones. In preparation for the release of Microsoft’s Windows 8 OS, the first Windows edition that will also come in an ARM-compatible variant, Qualcomm’s senior vice president Rob Chanhok has announced that their improved (quad-core) Snapdragon S4 chip will end up powering …
Nvidia’s CEO does a little trash talking: “Intel should manufacture our processors”
by Mike Andrici on Mar 27, 2012 1 Comments">1
In a recent interview with Forbes, Nvidia’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang stated that the group of companies that manufacture ARM-based mobile processors are beginning to create a dent in Intel’s impressive global CPU market share lead. Granted, as smartphone sales have recently surpassed PC sales, this is obviously something Intel should watch out for in the future. But when it comes to numbers, Intel still accounts for more than 80% of PC and server processors sold in 2011. I wouldn’t call that a dent. The entire interview seems more like a marketing jab, especially considering the fact that Intel is about …
Kepler, Nvidia’s latest GPU architecture, will probably come to smartphones as well
by Mike Andrici on Mar 24, 2012 1 Comments">1
Over the past few years, major chip manufacturers seemed to focus more and more on providing the best bang-for-the-buck-per-power-consumption ratio. I wouldn’t go as far as to call it a defining trend, but it is definitely a shift from the strict performance-based orientation chip makers had a decade ago. While yesterday, we’ve talked about the most power efficient CPU architecture out there, the ARM Cortex M0+, today I’m here to introduce you to the most power efficient GPU architecture out there, the newly uncovered Nvidia Kepler. With Kepler, Nvidia hopes to conquer all three major GPU markets: desktop, notebook, and …
ARM reveals the Cortex-M0+ architecture: the “internet of things” is closer
by Mike Andrici on Mar 23, 2012 0 Comments">0
Regular Android Authority readers, as well as tech-buffs, know that the mobile processor market is (and has been for the past years) under an almost complete ARM dominance. OK, so what about the big smartphone CPU manufacturers, such Qualcomm, Nvidia, Samsung, Texas Instruments, or Apple? Don’t they have anything to “say” about this? Well, the thing is most smartphone CPU’s are actually built on ARM-developed architectures, no matter if we’re talking about Qualcomm’s S3 and S4 chips, Samsung’s Exynos, or Apple’s A5X SoC. Although Intel’s Medfield chip is marketed and hyped as an alternative to ARM processors, it’s safe to …
Qualcomm vs NVIDIA: a tight battle for the #1 spot in 2012
by Mike Andrici on Mar 20, 2012 6 Comments">6
When it comes to today’s smartphones, there’s a lot of interest around what devices are getting what SoC (System on a Chip). Many expected 2012 to be the year of the quad-core smartphone, but it’s much more likely that dual-core processors will still continue to show up in flagship superphones and attract a lot of customers from the substantial mid-end market. The five major tech companies that dominate smartphone processor sales currently are Qualcomm, NVIDIA, Texas Instruments, Samsung, and –don’t you know it- Apple. Since the latter two make processors almost exclusively for their own smartphones, and with Texas Instruments …
IBM, Samsung show off new 14nm wafers
by Mike Andrici on Mar 20, 2012 5 Comments">5
[Updated] Fixed incorrect information about Tegra 3 manufacturing process. I’m not going to bore you with all the technical details, but a quick primer is required in this context: die shrinking is the process that basically allows for more processor dies to be produced on the same wafer. A lot of geeks (me included) get super hyped up when chip manufacturers announce that they are developing technology to shrink the dies even further. And all the enthusiasm is for good reason, as die shrinking brings both greater performance and decreased production costs per chip, since more chips can be cut …
[Updated] Delay of the S4 production may affect future consumer interest
by Lucian Armasu on Mar 13, 2012 0 Comments">0
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[Updated with TI's input on the OMAP 4460] Nobody seems to have a perfect launch in the chip industry. Sometimes they get it right, sometimes they don’t. Their only consolation is that their competitors can have the same problem. We’ve been upset with Nvidia for delaying, for months at a time, both the Tegra 2 and Tegra 3 chips, but the others have had and have delays, too. The OMAP 4460 at 1.5 Ghz was supposed to come out last fall, but so far we still haven’t seen it yet, and they’re likely to just skip it and jump straight …
Why the New iPad 3 May Be Slower than iPad 2. Wait, What?
by Lucian Armasu on Mar 09, 2012 38 Comments">38
“Quad core tablet”, “four times the graphics performance of Tegra 3″, “the second coming of Jesus Christ – again”, and of course all the usual “amazing, spectacular, magical and all the other attributes we’ve heard before about any new Apple device, appeared once again in the Apple media a couple of days ago. Except many of those are not exactly true – well perhaps the “magical” one is – I mean who can argue with that? We don’t have any actual benchmarks done by 3rd parties yet, but from what I can tell, the iPad 3 is first of all …
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