Welcome to our third and final reminder that the first anniversary of the NVIDIA TegraZone is this month! NVIDIA is showing off their wares this month with a big display of games and a release of a brand new Sonic the Hedgehog episode as well. Have a peek at our review of the latest NVIDIA Tegra 3 tablet to hit our review bench, the ASUS Transformer Pad TF300, and head below to continue on with the fun!
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NVIDIA describes four pillars of Kepler GPU power
This week NVIDIA demonstrated the power of their Kepler GPU in its future iterations in an investor call covering both desktop and mobile computing. The three different elements that focus the power of NVIDIA's Kepler GPU were listed as SMX, Hyper-Q, and Dynamic Parallelism, each of these explained in brief, and two relatively new products were reintroduced: Tesla K10 and Tesla K20, the first available now, the second available in the forth quarter of 2012.
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NVIDIA shows massive Tegra 3 launch growth
In an investor call this week with NVIDIA we're finding that there are more than a few surprises to be found in the mobile world - Android, gaming, Icera for LTE, and Tegra 3 included. NVIDIA Grey announced with Tegra 3 and Icera i500 chips combining in the next year to create devices that not only work with great processing speed, but amazing data speed as well with 4G LTE. NVIDIA let it be known that units being sold in the millions in 2012 was less than 200m, with 2013 already hitting 300m, then twice that again by 2015.
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NVIDIA: 30 Tegra 3 smartphones coming in 2012
This week NVIDIA has brought forth the fury with an almost offhand mention of the fact that they’ve got plans for 28 more Tegra 3 quad-core smartphones for the year 2012. This adds to the two already announced Tegra 3 smartphones including the HTC One X which we’ve got a full review of as well as a hands-on with the other, that being the LG Optimus 4X. New devices will likely start popping up near the end of the year with 4G LTE capabilities as well via the Icera 410 for AT&T also announced this morning.
NVIDIA: “This will do for video games what cable television did for video”
This week NVIDIA's head Jen-Hsung Huang is thrilling audiences once again with talk of massive expansion of the video game industry. This week he speaks of GeForce Grid, a system which will allow people to turn on a video game as simply as they would change a channel on their television. This system is based on a GPU - a GPU called GeForce Grid - which is made specifically to stream video games to any smartphone, tablet, TV, or PC with the same power as the rest.
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NVIDIA hits AT&T 4G LTE with Icera 410
This morning the folks at NVIDIA have announced their first trip into the world of AT&T 4G LTE with the Icera 410 LTE mulimode data modem chipset for tablets and clamshell devices. This chipset paves the way for NVIDIA to be working on the 4G LTE network AT&T offers in the very near future and through the future as well with Tegra-powered devices galore. The qualification tests this chipset has just gone through will allow product manufacturers from all corners of the market to quickly and easily get set up with 4G LTE and will set NVIDIA up for big wins in the connected AT&T smart device market for some time to come.
Toshiba AT300 Tegra 3 ICS tablet gets official
Toshiba has outed its latest Android tablet, the AT300, a 10.1-inch iPad rival running Ice Cream Sandwich on NVIDIA's quadcore Tegra 3 chipset and promising up to 10hrs runtime. Measuring 8.95mm thick and wrapping its guts in an aluminum shell with a splash of Gorilla Glass up front, the AT300 also has a pair of cameras, with a 2-megapixel front-facer and a 5-megapixel main camera on the back.
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NVIDIA’s Kai aims for $199 quad-core Android tablets
At CES 2012, NVIDIA and ASUS took to the stage and announced the MeMo 370T, a quad-core Tegra 3 Android tablet that would cost just $249. Rumors have suggested that the tablet has since been cancelled, or possibly rebranded as Google’s Nexus tablet, but there hasn’t been any other attempts by a company to hit that price point with such powerful specs. NVIDIA has now laid out the concept as an official strategy, dubbed “Kai”.
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NVIDIA TegraZone Anniversary Reminder – Celebrate with Sonic!
It's time to keep on rolling out on the NVIDIA train as the one year anniversary of the gaming hub known as TegraZone continues! This week it's time to celebrate with no less than a whole new Sonic the Hedgehog game and an Anniversary Game Pack for you and yours as well! As NVIDIA celebrates the first full year of providing awesome Tegra-tuned games to the public, so too should you join us for a game of Sonic 4: Episode II and a few bonuses along the way as well - TF300 tablet with the Tegra 3 inside, here we come!
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ILM speaks on Battleship: “the bar has been raised” for visual effects
Expanding on what we learned earlier this week from NVIDIA’s talk with effects group ILM, Visual Effect Supervisor Pablo Helman let us know that their work on the film Battleship‘s effects and production took place on a global scale. With technologies like what we saw this week from NVIDIA with their cloud-ready GPU power with Kepler, the teams at Industrial Light and Magic and the extended Battleship film crew were able to work from not just one set location, but many at the same time. ILM artists and crew worked from different parts of the Earth all at once – this dramatically decreasing the amount of time it took to create such a giant vision as this blockbuster film, Helmen letting us know that the film industry world in recent years has certainly “become a lot smaller” in many ways.
SlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: May 16, 2012
It's basically NVIDIA week here as the GPU conference hits the airwaves and NVIDIA sits pretty with its CUDA, Tesla, and Kepler news galore. The Samsung Galaxy S III has had an early unboxing for those of you looking to get in on the next generation of Samsung Android power. Multi-monitor support will be improved with Windows 8, so says Microsoft. Facebook may be finding itself devoid of advertising bucks as they edge closer and closer to their summer IPO - so says analysts.
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NVIDIA enters cloud gaming with GeForce GRID
Cloud gaming seems to be gathering some momentum, with OnLive and Gaikai both providing streaming games for reasonable prices with decent, if not amazing, quality. Now NVIDIA has signed a partnership with Gaikai that would see the cloud gaming company make use of of the new Kepler architecture as well as dedicated video encoding via CUDA.
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