Notion Ink explains OMAP over Tegra decision for the Adam II
While which chip ends up in a particular device will significantly affect its performance and access to future upgrades, it’s not often that we get to peek behind the curtain and find out why those decisions were made. A post on Notion Ink’s new Adam II development blog adds some transparency to the process, discussing the switch from an NVIDIA Tegra chip in its first Adam slate to a TI OMAP solution in the just announced tablet. According to the blog, while theoretical performance marks are nice, the company decided its expertise and that of available programmers would let it squeeze the most out of a Texas Instruments chip, as opposed to its first effort that didn’t “fully utilize” the power of Tegra
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TSMC profits down 22.5 percent, still able to afford a new yacht
It’s not been a great year for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company : the chip foundry behind Qualcomm and NVIDIA’s silicon (amongst others) saw profits slump by 22.5 percent in the last quarter of 2011. Like everything in this world, however, trouble is relative: the business still made a net profit of just over a billion US dollars
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TSMC profits down 22.5 percent, still able to afford a new yacht
CES 2012: Automotive round-up
It’s always a nice break from ultrabooks, smartphones and massive OLED TVs to catch a glimpse of the new auto tech that will be rolling out in the months to come. This year’s focus at CES was infotainment and software add-ons for a handful of manufacturers and models. Sure, the plug-in Fusion was a highlight, but for the most part, the emphasis on on-board screens and content delivery while you’re blazin’ down Route 66.
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Live from the Engadget CES Stage: an interview with NVIDIA (update: video embedded)
Matt Wuebbling from NVIDIA will be kicking off Wednesday on the Engadget Stage at CES by demoing some of the chipmaker’s latest technology.
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Live from the Engadget CES Stage: an interview with NVIDIA’s Matt Wuebbling
Matt Wuebbling from NVIDIA will be kicking off Wednesday on the Engadget Stage at CES by demoing some of the chipmaker’s latest technology. Join us at 12PM ET after the break to follow along.
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Live from the Engadget CES Stage: an interview with NVIDIA’s Matt Wuebbling
Hands-on with NVIDIA-powered Audi Connect
Last year Audi announced a partnership with NVIDIA to pack its next generation Audi Connect infotainment system with the chip-maker’s Tegra graphics processor. The chipset is part of Audi’s new modular multimedia system – dubbed MMX – which allows the automaker to upgrade the guts of its infotainment system as new hardware comes to market. Today, Audi showed off the fruits of their tie-up.
Lenovo’s ThinkPad T430u Ultrabook hands-on
Ultrabooks are all the rage this year’s CES, so it only makes sense that Lenovo would want to get in on the action and bring the new, slim form factor to its lauded ThinkPad line. We swung by the company’s trailer to get some hands-on with the T430u — the first such machine that we’ve seen packing discrete graphics from NVIDIA
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MSI launches GT783 gaming laptop, burns through Battlefield 3 with GTX 580M GPU
Another day, another behemoth of a laptop packing some super-charged components for the demanding, but mobile, gamer out there. Underneath the hood of the MSI GT783 series is a quad-core 2.2GHz Core i7 2670QM along with a 2GB GTX 580M GPU for some pixel-punishing performance. Both machines also boast a 17.3-inch 1080p screen but, while the cheaper GT783R settles for 12GB of RAM and a pair of 750GB drives in a RAID array, the GT783 ups the ante to 16GB of DDR3 and trades in one of those spinning platters for a 128GB SSD.
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NVIDIA open sources CUDA compiler, shares the LLVM love with everyone
A few years back, Intel prognosticated that NVIDIA’s CUDA technology was destined to be a “footnote” in computing history. Since that time, Jen-Hsun Huang’s low level virtual machine (LLVM) has more than proven its worth in several supercomputers , and now NVIDIA has released the CUDA source code to further spread the parallel computing gospel.
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NVIDIA open sources CUDA compiler, shares the LLVM love with everyone