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Android 4.0 ICS demo: Facial Recognition, Battery Life, GPU Rendering, and more

Chris Burns, Nov 18th 2011 Discuss [19]

Our demo series continues with the Galaxy Nexus running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, in this episode taking a look at Facial Recognition, Notifications, battery life, camera speed, GPU Rendering, and Recent Apps. In this post you’ll find a video featuring Vincent Nguyen who will also end up doing the full review of both the hardware and the software here on SlashGear. When you check this post out, keep in mind that this is one of the first wave of devices otherwise known as the international edition able to work on T-Mobile and AT&T bands. We have yet to see the Verizon version of this device, but everything you see in this video series should essentially be the same situation as that release.

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Blue Waters project expands with NVIDIA GPU-laden Cray supercomputer

Chris Burns, Nov 14th 2011 Discuss [1]

This week NVIDIA is letting loose more than one story on how they'll be inside some of the world's most powerful computers coming up soon, the latest being an Cray supercomputer deployed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications to move forward the Blue Waters project. And what is the Blue Waters project, you might want to know? Blue Waters is a project which aims at creating one of the world's most powerful computer systems, to put it simply, and with NVIDIA Tesla GPUs under the hood, this new Cray supercomputer is set to do the job. Read The Full Story

NVIDIA to power world’s first ARM-Based Hybrid Supercomputer

Chris Burns, Nov 14th 2011 Discuss [0]

The folks at NVIDIA have today announced that they'll be part of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center's next new hybrid supercomputer, complete with NVIDIA Tegra ARM CPUs and high-performance NVIDIA CUDA GPUs galore. Today's most efficient systems will be outdone in the energy efficiency department by the first large scale systems based on this technology, the first examples being shown off this week in Seattle Washington as the SC11 Conference (at book #235, if you'd like to know.) Fifteen to thirty times less power consumption than current supercomputer architectures on a exascale-level performance machine? Yes please. Read The Full Story

ARM outs new Mali-T658 GPU

Shane McGlaun, Nov 10th 2011 Discuss [1]

ARM is huge in the mobile world with its chips powering the majority of smartphones and other devices on the market today. The reason ARM has been so successful is that its designs are very power efficient and they offer good performance as well. ARM has announced a new GPU that will find its way into future mobile devices and Smart TVs. The new GPU is the Mali-T658. Read The Full Story

NVIDIA shows off dazzling enhancements in Batman: Arkham City [Video]

Chris Burns, Oct 20th 2011 Discuss [3]

It's time to check out Batman: Arkham City for the first OFFICIAL time running with NVIDIA's DirectX 11 Graphics and GPU Physics, certainly a sight to behold and set to be released on November 15th! In short, this game Arkham City builds on the ground-breaking 2009 game by the name of Batman: Arkham Asylum, one of the first games on the market to make use of Hardware-Accelerated PhysX effects which enhanced not only background details but incidental items as well, plus whole levels such as, as NVIDIA notes, the Scarecrow's nightmare world* (*included at the end of this post, for those of you that've never been there.) Now behold, footage from Arkham City, a game running with the graphics card it was made to run with, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560, with PhysX enabled for the greatest amount of detail you can imagine! Read The Full Story

AMD FX available for retail now, first ever eight-core desktop CPU

Chris Burns, Oct 11th 2011 Discuss [9]

Today AMD has launched the AMD FX family of CPUs for sale today, this including the very first eight-core desktop CPU, one that last month set the Guinness World Record for “Highest Frequency of a Computer Processor.” Retail availability starts here for processors that use AMD’s newest multi-core architecture known as “Bulldozer”, this included in AMD’s upcoming server CPU known as “Interlagos” and the next generation of AMD Accelerated Processing Units. The top-end eight-core AMD FX CPU will be selling for $245 USA Suggested Retail Price, and we’ve got the lowdown!

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AMD Radeon E6400 GPU gets multiple monitor support

Shane McGlaun, Sep 26th 2011 Discuss [1]

AMD has an ever growing line of GPUs for all sorts of needs ranging for the high-end gaming GPU down to the power sipping integrated GPU for computers of all sorts. AMD has announced that its entry-level embedded discrete GPU will support multiple monitors. The GPU supports up to four displays at one time. The GPU has some very nice features with an advanced 3D graphics engine and programmable shader architecture. Read The Full Story

Intel Cedar Trail netbooks to miss holiday season

Rue Liu, Sep 15th 2011 Discuss [1]

Intel's Cedar Trail processors for netbooks were originally aiming for a September launch that was pushed back to November, and now it looks like the platform will be delayed once again. Intel has revealed that Cedar Trail netbooks are still en route for 2011 but won't be available in time for the holiday season, which means the new launch date is now in December. Read The Full Story

AMD updates Fusion C and E series APU processors

Rue Liu, Aug 22nd 2011 Discuss [1]

AMD announced today that it's releasing updated versions of its award-winning C and E series APUs (Accelerated Processing Units). These APUs are advanced hybrids of CPUs and GPUs that packs in plenty of graphics and processing power into an efficient and space-saving chip to power mobile computing devices such as laptops and netbooks. Read The Full Story

NVIDIA outs more GTX 500M series notebook GPUs

Shane McGlaun, Aug 11th 2011 Discuss [0]

NVIDIA has unveiled the next generation of its mobile graphics processors in Taipei today and the geeks over at Netbooknews are there to see the new hardware. We have already heard about the GTX 560M GPU previously and it is expected to be seen in notebooks very soon. Along with the GTX 560M comes the GTX 580M as well. The 580M is the ultimate notebook gaming experience according to NVIDIA. Read The Full Story

NVIDIA admits Kepler GPU only in production come 2012

Chris Davies, Aug 5th 2011 Discuss [1]

NVIDIA has confirmed reports that its next-gen Kepler GPUs will only enter production in 2012, despite implying at the chipsets' initial reveal that they would ship in late 2011. "Although we will have early silicon this year, Kepler-based products are actually scheduled to go into production in 2012," NVIDIA spokesperson Ken Brown told X-bit Labs. "We wanted to clarify this so people wouldn’t expect product to be available this year." Read The Full Story

AMD throws down the GPU gauntlet with Radeon HD 6990M

Shane McGlaun, Jul 12th 2011 Discuss [0]

AMD has upped the stakes in the mobile GPU game for notebooks my tossing the new HD 6990M onto the market. The new mobile GPU is the fastest single mobile graphics processor in the world according to AMD. The 6990M was measures at 25% faster than other enthusiast level notebook GPUs according to AMD. The GPU also supports CrossFireX technology. The GPU also supports dual Graphics with a combination of multiple Radeon GPUs or a Radeon GPU and an AMD APU. Read The Full Story