Nvidia announced the acquisition of UK-based maker of baseband chips for 3G and 4G handsets, Icrea for $367 million in cash. This is a really big deal – not for the purchase price but for ...
Nvidia buys Icera for $367 Million; Icera based in Bristol, England, produces baseband processor for 3G and 4G cellular phones and tablets and well as a host of patents. Will this put Nvidia in direct ...
Featured in this weeks TechWatch read about “The tablets of the season”, a report from the LA Game Industry Conference, what is going on at Pixelogic and a look at the financial reports of Apple, ...
JPR found that GPU shipments during the first quarter of 2011 behaved according to past years with regard to seasonality, and was nominal on a year-to-year comparison for the quarter. Please read more on the ...
TIBURON, CA-May 2 2011-Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced estimated graphics chip shipments and suppliers’ market share for Q1’11. We found that shipments during the first ...
The effects of the disaster in Japan are starting to take a toll on the supply chain. Taiwan manufactures warn of “acute shortages” in memory chips, gyroscopes, capacitors, chip-resistors, cover glass and even bismaleimide-triazine resin, ...
Estimates have ranged form two billion to three billion onlookers for the royal wedding, a whopping 29% of the world’s population tuning in to see William and Kate exchange vows. No matter the number it ...
Sony announced two new Honeycomb tablets, the S1 and S2 powered by Nvidia’s Tegra 2. The S1 is a 9.4-inch widescreen tablet, the S2 will be a dual-screen tablet which has two 5.5-inch screens. They ...
Six years after the release of the monstrously successful Wii, Nintendo announces a new console; codenamed “Project Cafe”. The new system is set for release in 2012. Nintendo plans to have a “playable model” of ...
In this weeks issue a look back at COFES 2011, Adobe’s new road map and a breakdown of Sony’s PS3. Jon opines on the HPU and how GPU-compute will fuel astounding growth in computer engineering ...
Dell has unveiled three Sandy Bridge-powered Alienware gaming notebooks: the M11x, M14x and M18x. The largest laptop the M18x will be offered with an overclocked 4GHz Core i7 Extreme, a choice between a pair of ...
HP today announced a new lineup of mobile workstations, the Most powerful being the HP EliteBook 8760w which offers a 17.3-inch diagonal, high-definition screen, a choice of high-performing AMD FirePro or NVIDIA Quadro professional graphics ...
