NVIDIA has reportedly delayed its GPU roadmap, pushing back the release of 28nm, 22nm and 20nm chipsets over what's said to be poor yields from production partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) along with underwhelming product performance. According to DigiTimes' and sources at graphics card makers, NVIDIA's 28nm Kepler GPUs - which were originally expected to begin shipping later this year - are now not expected to arrive until 2012.
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HTC buys S3 Graphics from VIA
HTC is to buy GPU specialists S3 Graphics, in a deal which will see the smartphone company take all existing shares held by VIA - which bought S3 back in 2001 - and investor WTI, which part-funded the company in 2005. The deal, worth $300m, will see VIA take away $147m and HTC grab the company's low-power, HD-capable graphics expertise along with a patent portfolio that Apple has already fallen foul of.
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NVIDIA Bestows CUDA Center of Excellence Title on Stanford University
Today NVIDIA let it be known that they've named Stanford University a CUDA Center of Excellence for their work in parallel computing research using NVIDIA GPUs and NVIDIA CUDA technology. NVIDIA's CUDA is their parallel computing architecture which, it should be noted, enables radical increases in computing performance, all with the harnessed power of graphics processors. Stanford is one of more than 450 universities and institutions that teach the CUDA programming model within their curriculum and is now one of only 11 institutions already in the CUDA Centers of Excellence program.
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ARM looks to provide Mali mobile GPU with PS3 and Xbox 360 power in next 18 months
ARM is the dominant player in the mobile realm for processor and graphics processors that are able to provide the performance that consumers want in small handheld devices and still squeeze all the runtime possible out of the battery onboard. ARM is working on new designs for future products and is teasing with the power it has in store for its future hardware. ARM claims that within 18 months its Mali GPU will allow a mobile phone to be as powerful as the PS3 or Xbox 360.
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AMD Fusion A-Series APUs: Llano graduates with 10.5hr battery life, HD graphics
AMD has officially launched the Fusion A-Series APUs, as previewed at Computex earlier this month. The new Accelerated Processing Units - which are a hybrid of CPU and GPU technology - were previously known as Llano and can already be found in various desktops and notebooks, bringing along their DirectX 11 and HD video support.
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Qualcomm: “We’re not worried about” NVIDIA Kal-El
Qualcomm is unconcerned with the imminent arrival of NVIDIA’s quad-core Kal-El chipset, telling SlashGear that its dual-core 1.5GHz MSM8660 chips – as found in 1.2GHz form in the HTC Sensation – will outperform the Tegra 2 sequel. “Our dual-core is better than a standard quad-core” Ben Timmons, senior director of marketing and business development for Qualcomm Europe told us at a post-Uplinq briefing today, when we asked about Kal-El’s rapid approach. “We’re not worried about that.”
ASUS ROG range gets dual-GTX 580 MARS II video card, motherboards, more
ASUS' glasses-free 3D gaming notebook will likely get most of the attention, but the Republic of Gamers team has also brought along plenty of kit for the DIY enthusiast. In addition to the ROG Crosshair V Formula series motherboard shown yesterday there are the ROG Maximus IV Extreme-Z and ROG Maximus IV GENE-Z motherboards, plus the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 based ROG MATRIX GTX 580 and ROG MARS II graphics cards.
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Computex 2011: Day Zero Wrap-Up
Did you dream about a hybrid smartphone/tablet? It’s only morning in North America, but already the Computex 2011 pre-show presentations have been and gone, ahead of the show-proper opening on Tuesday. There’s plenty to see, too, with the East Asian companies bringing out their take on tablets and attempting to find a gap in the iPad’s armor, among other things. Read on for the full SlashGear Computex Day Zero wrap-up.
NVIDIA Kal-El gaming demo shows real-time dynamic lighting [Video]
NVIDIA promised big things for their quad-core Kal-El chip, the next-gen Tegra processor that pairs a quartet of CPU cores with twelve GPU cores, and the company is demonstrating some of that goodness at Computex 2011 this week. First up is a gaming demo of a new, homegrown game, Glowball, running on a prototype Kal-El powered Android Honeycomb tablet. As you can see in the video after the cut, the quad-core chip allows for high-quality dynamic lighting effects with responsiveness you simply couldn’t get from a dual-core like the Tegra 2.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 debuts at $199, plus beta R275 uber-drivers
NVIDIA has outed its latest video card, the GeForce GTX 560, slotting into the competitive $199 price segment and offering 336 CUDA cores, an 810-950MHz graphics clock and 1620-1900MHz processor clock, along with 1GB of GDDR5 memory with a 256-bit interface. Meanwhile, NVIDIA has also released its new beta GeForce R275 drivers, promising boosted performance across various games and new 3D Vision support for more than 525 new titles.
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PowerColor dual Barts/HD6870 video card surfaces and it looks awesome
I really like it when video card makers take what would normally be a decent video card with a single GPU and make it much more than that by adding a second of the same GPU to the mix. Dual GPU video cards are nothing new and have been around for a long time, we just don't see them as often as the single GPU offerings. The only downside to a dual GPU video cards is that they tend to run hotter and take up more space and power than your average single GPU card.
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AMD Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition CPU and Radeon E6760 GPU get official
You can't accuse AMD of playing favorites this week: there's something new for both its power-users and more mainstream, mundane purposes too. The AMD Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition processor takes care of the former, a new flagship quadcore which comes unlocked for easier overclocking. Meanwhile, the AMD Radeon E6760 GPU is the company's new embedded video chip, nonetheless capable of driving six independent displays.
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