Comments on: Graphics Processors Grow Up, Go Corporate

By: SC08: Michael Dell Details Everyday Supercomputing - GigaOM

SC08: Michael Dell Details Everyday Supercomputing - GigaOM — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:48:36 +0000

[...] be found everywhere — even on your desktop. In his speech Dell gave a boost to Nvidia and its use of GPUs in supercomputers by announcing that Dell would add 1 teraflop to its personal HPC workstations [...]

By: Graphics Go Mainstream - GigaOM

Graphics Go Mainstream - GigaOM — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:15:09 +0000

[...] emphasis on graphics is what’s leading to a rise in the number of GPUs shipped — they achieved a 17.8 [...]

By: Can Nvidia Play with the Big Boys? - GigaOM

Can Nvidia Play with the Big Boys? - GigaOM — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:15:20 +0000

[...] allows software coded in C languages to run on the multiple cores in a GPU. It helped the company make inroads in the scientific computing community, and thanks to software from startups such as Elemental Technologies, the goal is to bring that [...]

By: Intel’s Larrabee Aims to Take on Nvidia and AMD - GigaOM

Intel’s Larrabee Aims to Take on Nvidia and AMD - GigaOM — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:00:47 +0000

[...] computing has required faster chips, Intel and other chip makers have added more cores, a tactic that GPU makers have used for years in [...]

By: Welcome to the PS3 Data Center - GigaOM

Welcome to the PS3 Data Center - GigaOM — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:50:01 +0000

[...] from Nvidia or AMD and Cell (which was designed originally for the PlayStation 3) from IBM — moving into the enterprise. To sum it up, the x86 processor, the workhorse of corporate computing, can do a lot, but [...]

By: Intel Is Branching Out With Embedded SoCs - GigaOM

Intel Is Branching Out With Embedded SoCs - GigaOM — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:01:12 +0000

[...] PM PT Comments (0) Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, is spreading its R&D efforts far outside of its server and PC kingdom. The company has just launched a new line of products that will combine four processors onto a [...]

By: Elemental Technologies Raises $7.1M « NewTeeVee

Elemental Technologies Raises $7.1M « NewTeeVee — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:06:26 +0000

[...] claim to fame — and a few pending patents — derive from its use of the GPU for a non-graphics process. Elemental is working with Nvidia to optimize the transcoding software on its graphics chips. Below [...]

By: AMD Faces Nvidia With Dual Chip Plan - GigaOM

AMD Faces Nvidia With Dual Chip Plan - GigaOM — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:43:56 +0000

[...] scale. The real battle will be whether AMD’s dual-chip strategy takes business away from Nvidia for specialty graphics computers and high-performance technical computing. If that occurs, Nvidia will have to be on guard: Intel’s planning to follow the same [...]

By: The GigaOm Interview: Jen-Hsun Huang, Nvidia CEO on iPhone, Intel & a Dell Phone - GigaOM

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:31:23 +0000

[...] the meantime, the $4.1 billion-a-year graphics chip maker is battling Intel to bring more focus and computing jobs to the graphics processor that in the past may have been handled by a computer’s main processor, also known as [...]

By: AMD Pushes Puma to Beat Intel - GigaOM

AMD Pushes Puma to Beat Intel - GigaOM — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:16:54 +0000

[...] growing laptop market and justify its $5.4 billion acquisition of ATI Technologies back in 2006. As graphics become more important to the PC user, both Intel and AMD are shoring up their expertise in that department. AMD bought ATI while Intel [...]