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.
This week in TechWatch
- Digital reality: Crawling from the wreckage
- The next blade revolution begins.
- EDITORIAL: 30 years that changed the world
- Your Captain Midnight secret decoder ring for mobile
- NEWSWATCH
- FINANCIAL PAGE
- 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 …
Palm has had to admit that its m130 handheld, the one with the slogan “as colorful as your life” is actually a little less colorful than advertised. The machine is capable of only 58,621 color rather than 65,536. The problem apparently lies with the screen of the new handheld …
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Rick Belluzzo is the new CEO of Quantum Corp. of Milpitas, California. As reported in the Wall Street Journal, this seems a step down for Belluzzo who has flown pretty high as CEO of SGI (when SGI was still flying reasonably high itself), and as COO and Ballmer heir-apparent …
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The cow company is willing to try anything, but their current plans have consistently addressed the emerging digital TV market. Last year it was plasma screens and this year the company has announced plans to sell digital projectors. This time out, however, the projectors are aimed at the education …
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AMD’s latest processor is for notebooks. The new mobile processor is the Athlon 4 1500+ featuring QuantiSpeed and AMD PowerNow! Technology. The new part is built at the Dresden Fab 30 using AMD’s .18-micron process. As you know, this new processor may be named the Athlon 4 1500+, but …
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December 2001: Just because it’s a standard doesn’t mean there aren’t patent holders lurking in the bushes, and nowhere is this more true than in the confusing jungle of MPEG-2. The MPEG-LA group, formed in 1996 as a limited liability company, has emerged as a major coalition of patent …
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