This year Nvidia delivered its Tesla line of computing machines built around graphics processors.
The California-based maker of high-end graphics processors may be on the verge of a breakthrough.
This year Nvidia delivered its Tesla line of muscle-bound computing machines built around graphics processors.
Besides talking about the adoption of its Brazos platform, AMD also highlighted growth in its mobile discrete graphics processors market share.
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The rival graphics processors from the two companies come as Intel threatens to enter the market with a product it dubs Larrabee.
Meanwhile, the new HD 3800 series graphics processors announced Monday will have to claw back market share from competing products sold by Nvidia.
It could be a challenge for companies cranking out specialized graphics processors such as Nvidia and AMD for game and advanced visuallization.
The chip, etched in 0.25-micron detail -- state-of-the-art for graphics processors -- fits 10 million transistors onto a space about the size of a fingernail.
Over the past several years, Nvidia has broadened its focus from graphics processors (GPUs) for personal computers to processors for smart phones, tablets, and supercomputers.
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Over the past several years, Nvidia has broadened its focus from graphics processors (GPUs) for personal computers to chips for smart phones, tablets, and supercomputers.
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Chips based on this architecture AMD calls Accelerated Processing Units or APUs from the old idea that graphics processors are hardware accelerators for rendering visual data.
Nvidia VGX will allow desktops hosted on servers to take advantage of server-based graphics processors beaming rich, workstation-class graphics to handheld devices, netbooks, and tablet computers.
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Nvidia still leads the market for high-end graphics processors in desktop computers, but Huang needs to tap the fast-growth markets for smartphones and tablets before things worsen.
Both companies, however, are talking up technologies that will tap into graphics processors to speed up not just whizzy graphics but a bigger slice of everyday computing chores.
As bandwidth becomes cheap and ubiquitous, people will want 3-d power as much online as they do now in desktop games, and the demand for graphics processors will grow.
Fusion blends (fuses) traditional x86 computing cores, which compute things serially or one after the other, with graphics processors, which compute them in parallel or all at the same time.
The idea is to couple chips like the graphics processors responsible for snappy graphics in home computers and game consoles with central processors like the Intel chips powering your home computer.
Nvidia Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang has a bold plan that could hollow video game consoles out, and place the powerful graphics processors used to power immersive digital experiences into the cloud.
Another possible source of turbulence: graphics processors for notebooks.
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Nvidia has traditionally designed graphics processors for personal computers.
The rival graphics processors from the two companies come as Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) threatens to enter the market with a product it dubs Larrabee.
China Times reports that orders for TSMC's 28nm silicon are lined up to as far out as late Q3, courtesy of demand for ARM processors, baseband chips, graphics processors and x86 processors.
Launching HD 8000M series graphics processors for notebooks.
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Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia released fresh graphics processors Monday, renewing their battle for control of a technology both are arguing will play a role in computing that goes beyond just cranking out pretty graphics.
Pricing 150, 000 equity options in a second or assessing how much crude oil sits in a pocket 6 miles below the earth's surface are massively parallel mathematical computing problems for which graphics processors are peculiarly equipped.
The company got a jump on graphics chip rivals over the summer with a new series of graphics processors that have won strong reviews and grabbed market share from Nvidia, one of the chip industry's toughest competitors.
Throughout 2012, the company's PowerVR graphics processors continued to monopolize the iPhone and iPad as well as appearing in (late 2011) Android flagships, the PlayStation Vita and even the first Clover Trail-powered Windows 8 tablets.
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The chips will include an 800-megahertz ARM central processor--the same power-sipping design powering many smart phones--with a high-definition video processor, an imaging processor, an audio processor and a tiny, low-power version of the GeForce graphics processors Nvidia pushes for desktop and laptop computers.
Meanwhile, the Pentiums rank a touch higher with 3MB of L3 cache, HD graphics and processors that clock at 2.5GHz on the low end to 3.2GHz on the high end.
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