The first CES conference in New York City in 1967 attracted 17,500 dealers looking for the next CE products. Last year, just wobbling out of a recession the show had a surprising 126,641 visitors and a slight drop of exhibitors (2,500 compared to 2700 in ’09) and a smaller exhibit area (1.4M2ft. compared to 1.7 in ’09). 2011 however was … Read more
Even though Nvidia is staying somewhat mute on the Denver platform, the anticipation of it and the favorable Intel settlement has Nvidia shares up 10% just today.
The worst kept secret in industry history is expected to be announced at 11AM EST today. We know what it means for Verizon and Apple but what does it mean for Android?
Nvidia like many companies in the past two years has gone through some dramatic and bruising changes. How a company comes out of those events is the key to predicting their future. I’m not going to review the past, if you don’t know it, you probably aren’t reading this. Here’s what I see on the horizon for Nvidia. Tegra, the … Read more
The Tesla Model S is but just one of the cars whose interior displays are powered by a HPU. The entire line of BMWs will also feature Nvidia’s Tegra
The Tesla Model S is but just one of the cars whose interior displays are powered by a HPU. The entire line of BMWs will also feature Nvidia’s Tegra
Or … a bunch of teenagers drinking and driving The impact and influence of Apple on the rest of the PC and mobile phone industry is astonishing. Many of the CES tablets this year represent the herd-like knee-jerk reactions to Apple’s product introductions by industry veterans. As a result of all the jerking knees, about 100 new tablets have been … Read more
ARM netbooks are coming and it’s not about price; it’s about power management, always on; think cloud client apps, and freedom. Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer unveiled Windows on SoCs at his keynote. Nvidia’s Bill Dally threw down the gauntlet for Nvidia SoCs — Project Denver.
Elemental Technologies announced the company is solidifying its leadership in GPU-accelerated video processing, extending its architecture to support high-speed video conversion on the 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ processor family. “Accelerated GPU-based encoding solutions that work in tandem with the CPU, such as those offered by Elemental, deliver superior performance compared to software-based CPU-only solutions,” said Dr. Jon Peddie.
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Intel had a solid year of shipping 32nm processors from their Westmere family and followed the company’s “tick-tock” strategy to spread the engineering risk out among generations. Intel has new competition on the low-end from ARM and ARM’s new best friend Microsoft and on the top from GPUs in supercomputers and server clusters. To offset some of that impact the … Read more
It’s been just over a year since Intel and AMD reached their landmark settlement, and two years since the company entered into a joint agreement with ATIC on the fab. Those were huge movements involving huge sums of money and they take a long time to be digested. AMD never stopped doing what it does, and neither has its graphics … Read more
