Nvidia competes with Advanced Micro Devices and Intel in the graphics chip business.
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Last year, Nvidia began a focused push into mobile computing with ambitions of being more than a graphics chip maker.
As for graphics performance, the Vectra uses a Matrox G200 graphics chip with 8MB of memory integrated on the motherboard.
According to Matrox, the G450 chip that is the heart of the board is the most highly integrated graphics chip available.
The iPad is based on the new A5X quad core graphics chip, features a 5 megapixel camera, 1080p video recording, and voice dictation.
In the PC market, a new Nvidia Corp. chip is getting rave reviews, and the Intel 740 graphics chip recently joined the fray.
The same processor chip is there along with a slightly less impressive graphics processor, this one an Nvidia GeForce4 420 Go graphics chip.
Tell Chrome to enable support as well as ignore a graphics chip blacklist, and suddenly you're running Epic Citadel from your Linux install.
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That allowed Nvidia to speed a new graphics chip to market every six to nine months, a pace the company has sustained ever since.
Tianhe-1A consumes 4.04 megawatts of power, making it three times more power efficient than a system relying on CPUs alone, the graphics chip vendor contends.
Future lower-end MacBooks are expected to use Intels graphics chip tech.
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Obviously, the question remains how big of a trade-off there is on battery life in exchange for those two extra cores and the more powerful graphics chip.
Using a DisplayLink USB graphics chip, we only had to plug in an USB cable to instantly connect the external screen, once the driver was installed.
The software obviously remains the same besides new trackpad options, graphics chip switching, and other minor changes (that we've seen so far), though there are some odd tweaks.
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When performing general word processing tasks or surfing the Internet, it automatically cuts to the power-sipping integrated graphics chip mode, striking the ideal balance between performance and battery life.
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As the desktop computer industry continues to evaporate as consumers turn to slimmer, lighter, wireless devices such as smartphones and tablets, graphics chip specialist Nvidia continues to remake itself.
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Game players tend to be early adapters of any new technology, from specialized high-speed graphics chip sets to surround-sound computer speakers, that promises a more complete immersion in the virtual world.
The payoff: Cutting out so much data enabled them to get rid of external depth memory as well as the bottlenecks caused by shuffling data between it and the graphics chip.
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.
Although ATI's R600 graphics chip may have hit a recent snag, it seems that the company's Radeon X1250 GPU is coming along just fine, as it claims the proud title of "world's first" integrated graphics unit to receive Vista certification.
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To be incorporated in the next generation of ATI Radeons, Eyefinity can rock up to six displays (DisplayPort, DVI, HDMI, etc.) with a single card, thanks to a new 40-nm graphics chip that contains 2 billion transistors, capable of 2.5 trillion calculations every second.
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Subtract a one-time charge related to its acquisition of graphics chip specialist ATI, and AMD reported a loss of 90 cents per share during its March quarter, far short of analyst expectations of a loss of 48 cents per share--even after AMD had guided estimates lower not once but twice over the preceding quarter.
Also sadly, nobody's saying nothing about ATI's Hollywood graphics chip that's coming to the system, either out of ignorance or NDA-ance, but the general feel is that the system should thrown down about triple the graphics of the GameCube, but won't really be the same league as the energy loving 360 or the largish PS3.
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With the acquisition of wireless-chip company Icera last year, graphics-chip designer Nvidia will introduce do-it-all chips that can support both high-speed LTE networks and slower third- and second-generation networks early next year.
Early that year, the microprocessor-maker Advanced Micro Devices decided to acquire a graphics-chip company called A.T.
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Banatao was a legend in the business because he had started S3, the first big PC graphics-chip success.
In the past four years Huang has taken Nvidia from a trailing position to dominance in the breakneck, highly lucrative graphics-chip business.
The firm also wants a bigger share of the profitable graphics-chip business.
The enhanced chipsets are Intel's answer to rival Advanced Micro Device's graphics-minded chip bundles, which are expected to be better at processing high-definition movies and games (see " Intel Fights Back").
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