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Nvidia lands orders for three million Tegra 2 chips from Samsung

Nvidia has obtained orders for three million Tegra 2 chips from Samsung Electronics which will launch 10.1-inch Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) Tegra 2 Galaxy Tab in early June, according to company CEO and president Huang Jen-hsun. ...

The workstation market slows to a more sustainable pace in Q1’11

Q1’11 is now in the books, with the quarter seeing 860.0 thousand workstations shipped worldwide, representing a 4.8% sequential decline and an 18.6% year-over-year gain. While reduced growth might leave some disappointed, we see it ...

Nvidia and Google team up for 3D YouTube

With increasing 3D content available everywhere YouTube and Nvidia have decided to team up. “YouTube is adding support for HTML5 and WebM standards to the thousands of 3D videos available on YouTube. That will allow ...

Autodesk net income up 170%

Autodesk reported this week that revenue was up 11% in the first quarter of fiscal 2012, compared to the same quarter a year earlier, and net income was up 170% from a year earlier. Revenue ...

AMD releases two new low power new Accelerated Processing Units

AMD has announced the immediate availability of two new AMD Embedded G-Series with thermal design power (TDP) ratings of 5.5 and 6.4 watts. The new Accelerated Processing Units have very low power consumption and targets ...

Qualcomm picks up major design win with Nokia

After consideration of other major hardware providers Nokia announced today that their future Windows’s based phones will feature a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip-set. Nokia and Qualcomm have worked together on various platforms since they ended their ...

A new issue of JPR’s TechWatch is now available

In this weeks issue of TechWatch we have an in-depth review of Intel’s new 22 NM 3-D Tri-Gate process, a look at the HPU/APU impact on the future of graphics, Kathleen Maher discusses Corel’s new ...

Nvidia releases new Tesla M2090 GPU

Equipped with 512 CUDA parallel processing cores, the new Tesla delivers 665 GigaFLOPS of peak double-precision performance and 178 GB/sec memory bandwidth. Systems with M2090 will be available imminently from OEMs. HP has introduced the ...

JPR releases new Graphics Add-In Board report for Q1 2011

Graphics Add-in Board shipments increased a modest 0.2% from last quarter. Overall shipments of graphics AIBs for the quarter came in slightly above the last quarter at 19.03 million units compared to 18.84 million for ...

The Endeavor took flight this morning in the 2nd to last mission for the program

The Endeavor is set to deliver an Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to the International Space Station during its 16 day mission in space. The space shuttle program which first took flight on April 12, 1981 has ...

New Z68 Express Sandy Bridge Chipset released by Intel

The Z68 chipset offers new overclocking and caching features for PC enthusiasts who want more control over Sandy Bridge based systems. The 20GB Intel SSD 311 is optimized for the new Intel Smart Response Technology ...

Siemens PLM riding high

Siemens PLM is rebooting after its acquisition in 2007 and an industry-wide recession that gave everyone a chance to rethink the way they build products and go to market. Siemens PLM, with the old guard ...