Tag archive: GPU

As mentioned on the official Google Chrome Blog this week, the Chrome team has pushed out a stable version of Chrome 17 to all users of the popular Web browser. Detailed extensively in a previous article, Chrome 17 brings pre-rendering to the browser and has the ability to start loading pages as the user is typing the search query or URL into the omnibox. The browser makes these judgments based of the Web history of the user, but only analyzes… Read More

Apple's new 15- and 17-inch MacBook Pro laptops are reportedly freezing when put under a heavy load, according to numerous reports, as well as user comments on the Apple Discussion board. The problem, which appears to be widespread, has persisted for at least some users even after an update from Apple. The new 15- and 17-inch MacBook Pros feature Intel's speedy new Sandy Bridge Core i7 quad-core CPUs, available up to 2.3GHz, along… Read More

Advanced Micro Devices, better known by most as AMD, acquired graphics processor manufacturer ATI in 2006. The company was known best before the acquisition as the creator of the Rage and Radeon lines of computer graphics cards, and its tech provides the graphics processing power for the current-gen Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii gaming consoles. Under the new ownership, ATI has continued to deliver high-quality GPUs as one of the top competitors on… Read More

Nvidia has announced dual partnerships that will see the established maker of PC graphics cards delivering its graphic processing units (GPUs) to a new lineup of BMW cars and the upcoming Tesla Model S electric sedan. Nvidia says its GPUs will power the next generation of iDrive, BMW's navigation and vehicle information system, providing “vivid graphics with detailed terrain models, landmarks and a stunning new interface.” The… Read More

I imagine this is what the cold war felt like. China has unveiled a supercomputer that is 43 percent faster than any computer ever built (on Earth, by humans). Named the Tianhe-1A, it bests the previous record holder, the Cray XT5 Jaguar. China and Nvidia unveiled the supercomputer at the country's Annual Meeting of National High Performance Computing, or “HPC 2010 China,” in Beijing Thursday. Tianhe-1A was designed by… Read More

Nvidia has been under a lot of competitive pressure over the last year, but especially during the last four months as its primary competitor ATI has launched six desktop DirectX 11 GPUs and a complete Mobility Radeon lineup for notebooks. Over two million DX11 GPUs have been sold so far, all of them from ATI. Nvidia had a fairly large presence at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, but also had a series of briefings… Read More

Chipmakers AMD and Intel may come to a private agreement last month to end litigation between them, but that doesn't mean Intel is off the hook with the Feds: today the United States Federal Trade Commission announced it is suing Intel for abusing its position in the marketplace engage in anticompetitive behavior and stifle competition. “Intel has engaged in a deliberate campaign to hamstring competitive threats to its… Read More

Graphics technology developer Nvidia has formally introduced its next generation graphics architecture, codenamed Fermi, which Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang described as putting a supercomputer into a GPU. Unlike traditional GPUs, which are optimized for rendering and graphics tasks, the Fermi architecture is intended to put standard computing operations and graphics procedures on equal footing, enabling developers to leverage the computing power of… Read More