This past week, Qualcomm's been beginning to reveal what its new flagship smartphone and tablet chip can do. If you're buying a new phone in the next year, pay attention: There's a good chance these features end up in your next handset.…
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Qualcomm builds a faster Snapdragon and a higher-capacity radio chip
New tweaks to Qualcomm's silicon designs have produced not only a mobile processor capable of supporting Ultra HD, but also a baseband chip that can tap into the world's fastest networks.…
Read MoreThe third era of processing is here. And it’s heterogeneous
If we’re tracking eras of computer processing, the first is single core processing, followed by multicore. But now, since heterogeneous architectures can…
Read MoreWhy Google thinks the GPU is the engine for the web of the future
To make sure the response time for their increasingly interactive sites stays low, Chrome developers might want to look at ways to make use of the graphic processors embedded in consumer devices.…
Read MoreElemental gets $13M to sell arms in the online video fight
Elemental Technologies has raised $13 million to expand internationally, but the cool story behind this company is that it is selling its GPU-transcoding servers to everyone from HBO Go to Comcast. This makes Elemental an arms dealer in the war over the future of TV.…
Read MoreHP Pairs With Nvidia for New GPU Servers
Compute giant Hewlett-Packard has teamed up with Nvidia to make a server containing up to eight graphics processors designed for the high performance computing market. The two have built the world's "Greenest Production Supercomputer" together, and the machine using Nvidia's latest GPUs offers more performance.…
Read MoreAdapteva Pitches A Supercomputer For Your Phone
The brains inside your smartphone are getting more power with the latest version of application processors having two processing cores to help speed up the delivery of web site load times and mobile gameplay. That's awesome, but startup Adapteva, wants to take that number higher.…
Read MoreIs Apple Blind to Nvidia-Related MacBook Pro Failures?
Between 2007 and 2008, some MacBook Pro models shipped with faulty Nvidia GPUs, which can cause blank screens or image distortions. Apple will fix the problem free if it can detect it, but a new report calls its diagnostic process into question.…
Read MoreGood News: Flash Just Got Less Painful
Adobe took another big step toward improving the Flash video playback experience with the release of its Flash player 10.2 today. The new player reduces to CPU load of HD video playback to as little as zero percent by using technology already used by Google TV.…
Read MoreATI Returning to Mac With 4000-Series Graphics Cards
Poor NVIDIA (s nvda) — it looks like your honeymoon with Apple (s aapl) is over. There hasn’t been an official announcement…
Read MoreNVIDIA GPUs to Take On More in Snow Leopard, Improve Efficiency
Generally speaking, if your not using your Apple (s aapl) computer for graphics-intensive purposes, that NVIDIA (s NVDA) GPU that you have…
Read MoreWhy Apple’s NVIDIA GPU Extended Service Program is Inadequate
A tip of the hat to fellow TheAppleBlog contributor Clayton Lai in his recent column NVIDIA Killed My 2007 MacBook Pro, and…
Read MoreNVIDIA Killed My 2007 MacBook Pro
In mid 2008, amid growing evidence, NVIDIA acknowledged that a significant number of its previous-generation GPUs (graphics processing unit) and MCPs (media…
Read MoreApple’s Laptop Line Gets a Graphics Boost
Apple has updated their laptop line (sans the “white MacBook”) with NVIDIA’s new GeForce graphics chips: the 9400M for the MacBook and…
Read MoreApple Officially Admits to Faulty NVIDIA GPUs
Following NVIDIA’s July 2008 announcement that a number of their GPUs were experiencing higher failure rates than should be normally expected, Apple…
Read MoreUpdate: More “Brick” Rumors, Nvidia MacBook GPUs
A few days ago we posted a story about the much-sensationalized upcoming Apple mystery product, “The Brick.” While there is still no…
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