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Rambus, Nvidia sign patent licensing deal

Technology licensing company Rambus Inc. said Wednesday it has signed a licensing agreement with chip maker Nvidia Corp. to settle a long-running patent dispute.

Technology / Business

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

NVIDIA dresses up CUDA parallel computing platform

(PhysOrg.com) -- This week’s NVIDIA announcement of a dressed up version of its CUDA parallel computing platform is targeted as a good news message for engineers, biologists, chemists, physicists, geophysicists, ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 28, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (17) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core chip stokes tablet wars

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nvidia has launched its Tegra 3, the quad-core chip designed for mobile devices. Tech and investor blogs were busy yesterday assessing what this means for upcoming tablets and smartphones ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Nvidia says Kal-El chip will have five cores

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nvidia says its upcoming Kal-El chip (Tegra 3) will have five cores, not four. The news appeared this week when the Santa Clara company announced a white paper describing the architecture of this system-on-a-chip for mobile computing. ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 10 | with audio podcast report

Tablet keyboard cases turn Android devices into netbooks

Tablets made netbooks obsolete almost overnight, and for the most part, it was a mercy killing.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Nvidia shows off Kal-El -- new quad-core processing chip

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nvidia, well known for its graphics chips, has made a pretty big statement by releasing a video on Youtube showing the capabilities of its new quad-core processing chip for smartphones and ...

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created May 31, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 7 | with audio podcast report

Nvidia releases the Kal-El quad-core mobile chip

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nvidia has announced their brand new quad-core mobile processor at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The new processor was given the interestingly superheroic name Kal-El. Just in ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 16 | with audio podcast weblog

Acer announces the Iconia Tab A500 with Android 3.0 Honeycomb

(PhysOrg.com) -- Acer is making a new move into the world of tablets. They showed off their new Iconia Tab A500. The device features the Google's Android 3.0 Honeycomb software and an interesting set of hardware ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Feb 14, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast weblog

Intel's truce with Nvidia shows industry's shifts

Intel Corp.'s decision to pay Nvidia Corp. $1.5 billion for the right to its patents highlights the seismic shifts the semiconductor industry is undergoing.

Technology / Business

created Jan 11, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Intel to pay $1.5B to Nvidia in patent settlement

(AP) -- Intel has agreed to pay $1.5 billion over five years to Nvidia to settle a lawsuit over a key computer technology. Nvidia shares jumped.

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created Jan 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Tablets, smart gadgets rule at Consumer Electronics Show

Slick touchscreen tablet computers and smarter devices for the home and the car took center stage as the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) wrapped up on Sunday.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

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Microsoft developing Windows for phone chips

Microsoft Corp. confirmed Wednesday that it is developing a version of its main Windows operating system that will run on cell phone chips, providing an alternative for the first time to the chips based on ...

Technology / Software

created Jan 05, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

NVIDIA GPUs power world's fastest supercomputer

(PhysOrg.com) -- NVIDIA has built the worldэs fastest supercomputer using 7,000 of its graphics processor chips. With a horsepower equivalent to 175,000 laptop computers, its sustained performance is ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 29, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (29) | comments 9 | with audio podcast weblog

Intel, other chip makers suffer on PC sales fears

(AP) -- Shares of chipmakers Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Nvidia Corp. dropped Tuesday as analysts said demand for computers looks shaky heading into the all-important back-to-school season.

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Nvidia chip team gets 25 million dollars from US military

Nvidia on Monday said it is leading a team awarded 25 million dollars by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to create a chip that leaves today's super computers in the dust.

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created Aug 10, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (28) | comments 14

Nvidia

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA, pronounced /ɛnˈvɪ.di.ə/), a multinational corporation, specializes in the development of graphics processing units and chipset technologies for workstations, personal computers, and mobile devices. Based in Santa Clara, California, the company has become a major supplier of integrated circuits (ICs) such as graphics processing units (GPUs) and chipsets used in graphics cards, and video-game consoles and personal-computer motherboards.

Notable Nvidia product-lines include the GeForce series for gaming, the Quadro series for computer aided design and for digital content creation on workstations, and the nForce series of integrated motherboard chipsets.

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