One area in which Nvidia has a dominant position is the professional graphics cards market.
Graphics cards are notorious power hogs, and generate enough heat to warm a house.
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The graphics cards business is essentially comprised of discrete graphics cards and integrated graphics cards.
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Nvidia launched its new series of professional graphics cards (Quadro and Tesla) during the past quarter.
The graphics cards used in the machines were in beta form, as were the graphics card drivers.
Glass for screens, LED components, graphics cards, even particular colors proved tough to get at the right moments.
However the more expensive models of the same product will contain discrete graphics cards from AMD as well.
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The AMD Radeon HD 8000 Series desktop graphics cards are designed to make everyday computing entertaining and productive.
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They use high-speed graphics cards to run a customized rendering platform called Gocad, built by software maker Paradigm.
In the past, Nvidia Pro Graphics Cards Market Share has increased from 70% in 2005 to 86% in 2009.
Back in the 1990s, he co-founded 3dfx, which developed true 3D graphics cards.
Nvidia is a leader in the graphics cards business and competes with Advanced Micro Devices and Intel.
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We destroy motherboards, processors, and graphics cards at an alarming rate doing it.
Does nVidia come out with a new batch of graphics cards every year?
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The continued economic weakness in Europe and the U.S. is likely to affect the demand for microprocessors and graphics cards.
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Professional graphics are high profit margin products that typically having 2x -3x the profit margins of desktop graphics cards.
This is good news for Nvidia, which has rather seen a drop in its 2010 professional graphics cards market share.
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Many scientists have started using graphics cards as number-crunching engines because they are cheaper and easier to use than traditional supercomputers.
Professional graphics cards are used primarily by business professionals that need powerful graphics for the purposes of demonstrating designs and complex simulations.
Includes fixes for possible graphics distortion issues with certain ATI graphics cards.
Nvidia's graphics cards are now the most expensive part of high-performance PCs.
The AMD Radeon HD 8000 Series graphics cards also utilize AMD ZeroCore Power technology which improves power savings when computers enter an idle state.
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By overclocking the microprocessor, graphics cards and other components, a hot-rodder is likely to increase the temperature inside the minitower, which necessitates more cooling fans.
The Santa Clara, Calif. firm has 62% of the market for desktop PC graphics cards, up from 57% a year ago, according to Mercury Research.
Professional graphics cards are purchased separately by professionals to get 3D graphics performance that is superior to the graphics cards that come installed in their PCs.
These TVs are tied together by AMD Eyefinity display technology, which allows them to be run from a single PC with three AMD FirePro graphics cards.
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The models of the sensory systems will run on a cluster of powerful graphics cards that can carry out the calculations needed to simulate bee brains.
Analogix Semiconductor, Inc. designs and manufactures semiconductors for the digital multimedia market, from portable devices such as smart phones to high-end graphics cards and large, high-definition displays.
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While discrete graphics cards high performance appeals to gamers and professionals who require high-end computing, integrated graphics is aimed to support minimal graphics requirements of a PC.
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Its latest 600-series graphics cards use a mix of 28nm and 40nm chips, which are no better (in terms of transistor size) than AMD's latest 28nm graphics cards.
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