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By: Nvidia Turns to ARM for Server Chips and to Kill Intel: Cloud Computing News «

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 22:48:23 +0000

[...] The move broadens Nvidia’s relationship with ARM, expands its market and puts Nvidia in even more competition with Intel, as well as with startups such as SeaMicro and Calxeda (formerly known as Smooth-Stone). It’s [...]

By: Nvidia Shows Off Its Survival Skills With IBM Win « wesley83's Blog

Nvidia Shows Off Its Survival Skills With IBM Win « wesley83's Blog — Tue, 18 May 2010 18:43:55 +0000

[...] and low-cost computing collide, Nvidia had two advantages over the Cell. One, it had the CUDA programming tool introduced in 2007 that made it possible for developers to program in C and then watch their efforts run easily on the [...]

By: Nvidia Shows Off Its Survival Skills With IBM Win

Nvidia Shows Off Its Survival Skills With IBM Win — Tue, 18 May 2010 16:01:44 +0000

By: Smooth-Stone Bets ARM Will Invade the Data Center - A Collection of Latest Happening in Technology Field

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:56:13 +0000

[...] may be on the verge of losing its hegemony as mobile computing turns to ARM-based architectures and graphics processors from AMD and Nvidia move upmarket into high-performance computing and even into some servers. But the commodity servers that populate [...]

By: Smooth-Stone Bets ARM Will Invade the Data Center

Smooth-Stone Bets ARM Will Invade the Data Center — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:01:45 +0000

By: 2 Years of Chips, Broadband and You! – GigaOM

2 Years of Chips, Broadband and You! – GigaOM — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:03:51 +0000

[...] the last two years I have covered the growing importance of multimedia, the disruption of the semiconductor industry, the expansion of super-fast broadband to many areas [...]

By: Has Intel Reached the Limits of x86? – GigaOM

Has Intel Reached the Limits of x86? – GigaOM — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:01:22 +0000

[...] for the mobile market and the embedded space clearly disagree, while Nvidia, AMD and even IBM had fled the confines of x86 when it comes to delivering [...]

By: TI Wants to Use DSPs for Low-power Computing

TI Wants to Use DSPs for Low-power Computing — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:29:55 +0000

[...] wants to gain traction in this space, it may have to take a page from Nvidia’s book. Nvidia pushed its graphics processors into scientific computing using a software tool called CUDA, which helped people adapt their programs written for x86 [...]

By: Nvidia Cuts Sales Estimates by Half

Nvidia Cuts Sales Estimates by Half — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:31:20 +0000

[...] netbooks, and its ION platform that combines Intel’s Atom chip with an Nvidia GPU could make netbooks way more compelling for watching movies, web video and other visual content. However, with fierce GPU competition from [...]

By: Nvidia Machine Takes a Spot on the Top Supercomputer List - GigaOM

Nvidia Machine Takes a Spot on the Top Supercomputer List - GigaOM — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:41:23 +0000

[...] chips from Nvidia, Intel and AMD. As Nvidia and AMD, which bought graphics chipmaker ATI in 2005, push graphics processors for scientific computing, this is a big milestone. The rest of the list was pretty anticlimactic, with IBM’s [...]

By: AMD Bridges the Gap Between the PC and TV - GigaOM

AMD Bridges the Gap Between the PC and TV - GigaOM — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:00:41 +0000

[...] the ZvBox, but doesn’t require the extra hardware. For a quick tour of the software and why visual computing is becoming so important, check out the [...]

By: Graphics Go Mainstream - GigaOM

Graphics Go Mainstream - GigaOM — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:15:04 +0000

[...] in today’s world of digital everything and the coming 3-D web, rich graphics are becoming a need-to-have capability on every [...]

By: Business News Research » Why Apple’s New Laptops Get Their Own GPUs - GigaOM

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:58:55 +0000

[...] more visual our computing and web surfing activities become, the more often we use the GPU rather than the CPU. This move to the GPU started a few years back, when software firms from Microsoft to Adobe [...]

By: Why Apple’s New Laptops Get Their Own GPUs - GigaOM

Why Apple’s New Laptops Get Their Own GPUs - GigaOM — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:21:28 +0000

By: Nvidia to Offer Its Chips in the New Cray Desktop - GigaOM

Nvidia to Offer Its Chips in the New Cray Desktop - GigaOM — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:20:49 +0000

[...] its scientific computing turf in the high and low end. Chips such as IBM’s cell processor or GPUs from AMD or Nvidia are being dolled up with programming tools to take on scientific computing. The multiple cores in the Cell chip and GPUs are designed to parallelize tasks and execute them [...]

By: Nvidia Pushes the 3-D Internet - GigaOM

Nvidia Pushes the 3-D Internet - GigaOM — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:19:36 +0000

[...] to see how many of these firms have nothing to do with gaming. As we’ve noted before, visual computing is becoming more important for everyday consumers on their desktops, and GPUs are making inroads into scientific and data [...]