nVidia reported earnings for Q2 FY09 and its revenues fell from $935.3 million to $892.7 million in the same quarter a year ago: a decrease of 5%. However, revenues for the six months ended July 27, 2008 increased to $2.05 billion compared to $1.78 billion for the six months ended July 29, 2007, an increase [...]
August 14th, 2008 | rp | Comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "nvidia"
Intel Larabee details surface
Early details on Intel’s Larabee GPU, the nVidia killer, were unveiled today by Intel. The company is presenting a paper in SIGGRAPH on August 12th. The paper details a new approach to the software rendering 3-D pipeline, a many-core (many processor engines in a product) programming model and performance analysis for several applications.
The first product [...]
Rambus files patent infringment suit against nVidia
Rambus Inc., memory technology licensing companies specializing in high-speed memory architectures, today announced that it has filed suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against NVIDIA Corporation for patent infringement.
The lawsuit alleges that a number of NVIDIA products with memory controllers for SDR, DDR, DDR2, DDR3, GDDR, and [...]
AMD unveils teraflop processor
AMD today announced the AMD FireStream 9250, a stream processor that will break the Teraflop barrier for single precision performance. The new chip is meant for complementing the General Purpose CPU and aid in running critical workloads such as financial analysis or seismic processing dramatically faster than with CPU alone, helping potential applications to address [...]
June 16th, 2008 | rp | Comments | ContinuedNvidia taking a swipe at Intel?
Nvidia recently launched their “Optimized PC” campaign and took a swipe at Intel, the microprocessor industry leader. Claiming that over half the PC’s shipped today have an underpowered GPU, nVIDIA suggests customers should use a functional CPU and are better of by leaving their complicated computations to a GPU for a variety of OS, games [...]
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