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NVidia GeForce Experience app

Paul Merak — Thu, 03 May 2012 07:01:21 +0000

It’s can be tricky trying to eke out the best frame rates on your NVidia graphics cards, especially when differing display resolutions are taken into account. Now NVidia has launched its GeForce Experience software app, the culmination of a 5-year project at NVidia, where the company has built a data center, complete with supercomputer, crammed [...]

NVidia Tegra 4 – Kepler 28 nm

Paul Merak — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:37:33 +0000

The NVidia GeForce GTX 680 has been receiving rave reviews, thanks in part to its new 28nm Kepler architecture, which involved NVidia completely overhauling its methods of GPU design. That has knock-on effects for mobile devices. Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia, beamed, ‘Because of Kepler’s super energy-efficient architecture, we will extend GPUs into super thin [...]

Gigabyte P2542G Notebook – Preview

Ashley — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:52:24 +0000

Taiwanese manufacturer Gigabyte unveiled the P2542G gaming laptop at CeBIT in Hannover a couple of weeks back. The Gigabyte P2542G packs in an Intel Ivy Bridge i7 CPU, a 2GB NVidia Geforce GTX660M dedicated graphics card and a full HD 1920 x 1080p screen. P2542G also offers a Blu-ray drive and a THX-certified dual-woofer audio [...]

NVidia Tegra 3 vs Apple A5X

Paul Merak — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:12:54 +0000

At the iPad Conference in San Francisco we heard Apple claim that their new A5X processor in the new iPad 3 offers 4 times the performance of an NVidia Tegra 3 processor. They were talking about graphic performance of course. No specifics were given however, and NVidia respectfully dismisses these claims. Nvidia, said: “We don’t [...]

NVidia Moves Into Connectivity Chips

Paul Merak — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:21:01 +0000

NVidia has already shaken up the mobile processor industry, with its quadcore NVidia Tegra 3 processor the latest must-have feature for premium tablets and smartphones. Now the company has released its Icera modem chip, watched nervously by the likes of Qualcomm and Texas Instruments, concerned that their market share might now go the same way [...]

NVidia Profits – Much More To Come

Paul Merak — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:12:52 +0000

Nvidia has posted Q4 profits of $116 million from revenues of $953 million, outstripping analysts’ expectations, though the company warned of slightly lowered revenues for the current Q1 2012 period, blamed on the hard drive shortage, which is having wider effects in the PC industry as a whole, hurting graphics card sales. The take up [...]

Lenovo tablet with Kal-El and ICS

Paul Merak — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:01:20 +0000

The tablet world is abuzz with the news that a Lenovo 10.1 tablet is on the way, bearing the new Android Ice Cream Sandwich OS. It is expected to hit stores by the end of the year. It’s the spec that’s raising eyebrows – the new tablet is said to feature an 1.6GHz NVidia Tegra [...]

NVidia Doing Well By Branching Out

Paul Merak — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:21:47 +0000

NVidia has announced strong figures for the third quarter, thanks largely to runaway sales of Tegra Chips for mobile devices. The first Midgard design, the T604, was announced last year, and is currently licensed by Samsung and LG. NVidia Consumer Products Group, encompassing Tegra processors, saw 14% rise to $191 million in Q3. NVidia has [...]

Tech Tittle Tattle

Ashley — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:13:12 +0000

NVidia has promised quadcore Android tablets by the end of the year, with quadcore smartphones in 2012. The CEO of NVidia, Jen-Hsun Huang said they were the only manufacturer seriously collaborating with Qualcomm, maker of the current generation of dual-core Snapdragon processors. He also hinted that NVidia will enter the mid-range market rather than concentrating [...]

Review: Dell XPS 15z

Paul Merak — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:22:23 +0000

In the past, the ultra thin laptops were the greatest motivations for Dell engineers and designers, only to fail miserably in one feature or another. It could be a lousy battery life, low performance or just tad too pricey. Now, in 2011, Dell promised something that will balance out all these issues. For quite some [...]

Sony S1 and S2 tablets teaser video

Paul Merak — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 15:50:04 +0000

About a month ago we published a post showcasing two new Honeycomb gaming tablets Sony S1 and S2. Sony S1 is a 9.4 inch screen tablet with 1280×800 resolution, Quick & Smooth Touch Panel UI. S1 will have 512MB of RAm ans 32GB of storage. You can connect this S1 tablet via WiFi, 3G or [...]

Asus Eee Pad Transformer overclocked at 1.6GHz

Paul Merak — Mon, 30 May 2011 15:47:00 +0000

Well, it was just matter of time before someone from XDA developers send us a kernel for running Asus Eee Pad Transformer at 1.6GHz. Blades writes that at this speed your Transformer may be a bit unstable. Most tablets running NVIDIA Tegra 2 chips are set to run on 1GHz, so overclocking it to 1.6GHz [...]

Sony S1 and S2 Tablets geared for gaming

Paul Merak — Tue, 03 May 2011 15:40:41 +0000

Sony has now released to public knowledge their new Android tablet offerings, the Sony S1 and S2. One will feature a 9.4 inch screen and the other one is a dual screen model. The two tablets will be running on the Android 3.0 Honeycomb. Sony seems to have implemented a custom software that is pretty [...]

Malata 10 and 13 inch laptops use Tegra 2

Paul Merak — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:13:33 +0000

Malata, a Chinese company has just revealed its new laptops that use the NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor normally used for tablets. The laptops themselves are not yet present but there are floating images of the spec sheet for these gadgets. The first one is the 10 inch PC-B1002 with a resolution of 1024×640, 8GBhard drive [...]

Seen on FCC: Acer Iconia Tab A500

Paul Merak — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:34:46 +0000

AT&T was quite on a lot of promotional work to tell everybody that they will be carrying the Iconia Tab 500 from Acer. Just recently, the tablet was seen on the FCC website. Well, there are no actual full on photos of the tablet but at least you can see the side where the FCC [...]

Samsung Notebooks

Paul Merak — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:26:03 +0000

A whole lineup of Samsung notebooks is in store for notebook seekers out there and they have also started with the shipping of the Samsung Series 9 notebook with a 13.3 inch screen. That is great; however, many people are more interested now with notebooks that are 12 inches and under. That means we will [...]

Motorola Webtop laptop dock

Paul Merak — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:22:48 +0000

In the smart phone realm, the Motorola Atrix 4G has got to be the most intriguing of all. For one thing, this smart phone uses a very fast NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor and it also connects via 4G. Of course, the most intriguing reason is that Motorola has revealed some laptop docking stations that can [...]

Trademark battle won over by Qualcomm for name ”Smartbook”

Paul Merak — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:49:32 +0000

Qualcomm coined the term Smartbook a few years ago and this is to describe those mini laptops at the size of a netbook that use smartphone chips and has 3G capabilities. It also offers internet access that is always on and it boasts of an all day battery capacity. Then a company named Smartbook AG [...]

Kal-el quad core for tablets by NVIDIA

Paul Merak — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:01:49 +0000

NVIDIA aims to bring the quad core chip into the mobile territory by late 2011. The project is currently under the name Kal-El and was introduced in the Mobile World Congress recently. A working prototype of the chip was shown. The chip will be available by August and smart phones carrying it by December. This [...]

Dell Streak phone function

Paul Merak — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 09:47:17 +0000

The Dell Streak 7 uses the Android 2.2 OS and the NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor. The Dell Streak 5 is the smart phone version and can be used to connect over 3G and call people. The Streak 7, on the other hand, does not have that feature for phone functions. Dell and T Mobile offer [...]

AT&T: Atrix 4G on offer at $200-$500

Paul Merak — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 09:35:09 +0000

AT&T has just revealed that it is going to include the Motorola Atrix 4G on its list of devices. Sadly, this mobile phone will not fare as cheap as what we all have expected it to be. If you wish to dock the Atrix 4G, on the Webtop docking station, you will be spending quite [...]

The New NVIDIA Tegra 3 to be released at MWC

Paul Merak — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 14:29:27 +0000

NVIDIA is in its final stages of finishing up the Tegra 3 and soon enough, at the end of the year, Tegra 4 will be released as well. According to a developer, the Tegra 4 will be a Cortex A9 quad core with either the GeForce 8/9 for the GPU and the CUDA technology. Tegra [...]

Leaked! Tegra 2 3D in spring 2011

Paul Merak — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:30:08 +0000

Time sure flies in the tech world. We have yet to enjoy the Tegra 2 chips and NVIDIA is already preparing for something new, a Tegra 2.5 update. This new chip is a dual core chip with 1.2GHz and is marketed to be capable of handling 3D on mobile. This was leaked as the T25 [...]

NEC Tegra 2 based Mini Laptop

Paul Merak — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:00:39 +0000

NEC has revealed at CES the 7 inch mini Laptop that runs on the Tegra 2 chip from NVIDIA. This very small device has a full QWERTY Keypad and it also has special Android keys like the Home, Menu and Back. The screen is resistive. The keyboard feels very cramped but with the android keys, [...]

CES will be generous with new tablets

Paul Merak — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 18:27:37 +0000

It is most definitely true that the tablets are the hottest gadgets that will populate the upcoming CES. Of course you will not expect them to be everywhere, but you will surely see the trend like in 2008 when netbooks became the device that swoop the world. It was predicted that a number of Taiwanese [...]

World’s fastest GPU

Paul Merak — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:42:26 +0000

Nvidia has launched all new GeForce GTX 580 and with test results being released GeForce GTX 580 has surfaced as the fastest GPU around. Thirteen games were tested and it was on average 22% faster than the GTX 480, and 46% faster than the Radeon HD 5870. Price hovers around $500 but with its performance, [...]

New chipset on HTC, Motorola and Asus

Paul Merak — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:38:39 +0000

Tegra 2 chip is a dual core processor made by NVIDIA. This chip would enable tablets to playback HD video, handling 3D video acceleration. We could say that this is big news for NVIDIA as they hadn’t been able to land a contract with any big size company thus far. DigiTimes also reports that Asus [...]

Volkswagen Group to use NVidia Tegra chip

Kamal DS — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:32:51 +0000

Nvidia Tegra is yet to prove itself in the world of portable computing, but it seems to be all set in making a big name in the world of luxurious cars. Volkswagen group has announced that it will be using Tegra chips in its car navigation systems in 2012.

The first one to use it will be Audi, followed by Volkswagen, Bentley, Lan Bocchini, Seat and Skoda. Other brands will follow their suit in 2012.

Folks at Tegra are expecting their shipments to reach 250-300 million in the year 2012 which may sound a too ambitious considering the fact that NVidia was able to sell just 50 million units in the year 2009

Intel thinks – ION not required for netbooks

Twinkle — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:10:17 +0000

Intel's director of netbook marketing, Anil Nanduri in an interview said that Nvidia's ION is very much absurd for the netbooks. "In terms of usages, netbooks are not meant for gaming. You can run Internet games fine today with the existing solutions. We believe (ION) adds unnecessary additional cost and the other trade-offs make it less desirable," said the director Nanduri. Without a doubt ION can be used for nettops.Well, somebody shall tell him that ION is not only for gaming, but also for viewing HD videos. Without ION, it would be impossible to view 1080p on a netbook. That said, it should be noted that viewing 1080p videos only make sense when you have HDMI port on your ION netbook. Otherwise, there is no point in watching full HD videos on a low-resolution screen

Nvidia ION 2 to be released after CES 2010 to the OEMs and Manufactures

Paul Merak — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:27:22 +0000

We have posted plethora of times about the upcoming NVIDIA's ION 2 chipset. According to the latest news bits, the Nvidia has confirmed that ION 2 will NOT be launched during CES 2010 event that will be coming in the month of January.That said, it will showcased by many OEMs, but its official announcement will take place after CES. It will be launched in Q1 2010. So, what is the reason that Nvidia has pushed the announcement back? - OEMs such as ASUS, MSI, HP and Lenovo who are already pretty satisfied with the Pinetrail M and other pineview based CPUs.