Jon Peddie to speak at the GPU Technology Conference today
May 16th 2012
Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference is entering it's 2nd day today at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. You can follow the happenings at GTC
HERE where you will be able to view a re-cap of Jen-Hsun's keynote along with press releases and updates from the show.
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- NEWSWATCH
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- MOUNT TIBURON TESTING LABS: Nvidia’s dual-GPU GTX 690 AIB
- TECH INSIDER: NAB wrap
- The Back Page: How big is your monitor?
Techwatch May 11th 2012
There’s a lot of assumptions running around in this PC industry, based on hearsay and tidbits of data. We just finished running some tests on Nvidia’s new dual-GPU AIB, the GTX 690 (see p. 11). Nvidia wasn’t very happy with our first results, and told us we were being CPU-bound by doing the tests at HD. Aside from the counter-intuitive comments (after all, isn’t that exactly what a GPU is supposed to do—eliminate CPU limitations?), it also raises the question about what the potential buyers of this $999 AIB have on their desks. I suppose it is reasonable to …
Elemental Technologies announced the company is solidifying its leadership in GPU-accelerated video processing, extending its architecture to support high-speed video conversion on the 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ processor family. "Accelerated GPU-based encoding solutions that work in tandem with the CPU, such as those offered by Elemental, deliver superior performance …
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Intel had a solid year of shipping 32nm processors from their Westmere family and followed the company’s “tick-tock” strategy to spread the engineering risk out among generations. Intel has new competition on the low-end from ARM and ARM’s new best friend Microsoft and on the top from GPUs in …
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It’s been just over a year since Intel and AMD reached their landmark settlement, and two years since the company entered into a joint agreement with ATIC on the fab. Those were huge movements involving huge sums of money and they take a long time to be digested. AMD …
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Microsoft started it a long long time ago, and now Microsoft may now be the biggest victim of it – giving stuff away. When Microsoft was striving for market share with its operating system, and later with its applications like Office, it established the policy of adding programs that …
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I don’t think so. According to DisplaySearch (a division of NPD that counts screens shipments), Apple captured a 12.4% share of global mobile PC shipments in Q3’10, benefiting from the iPad effect. In other words, because Apple shipped a lot of iPads the company’s market share in “mobile PCs” …
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