They saw the machines as computers and began adding the latest graphics chips and networking ports.
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 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.
One of the computers sold also by Silicon Graphics is now operating in the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Even with his wimpy DSL connection, pages are rendered quickly enough once the website's servers (and all the other computers along the route, plus those used to host adverts, graphics and miscellaneous layout bits) start giving his browser's request some attention.
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Intel is also a threat at the low end, where it competes with Nvidia and AMD to sell the cheaper integrated graphics chipsets used in budget desktop computers and many notebooks.
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.
Intel gets all the credit for being the brains inside most computers, but without Nvidia's graphics cards there would be no high-definition Web video, no visual kick from battling aliens in the lush digital forests of the Crysis game.
Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) gets all the credit for being the brains inside most computers, but without Nvidia's graphics cards there would be no high-definition Web video, no visual kick from battling aliens in the lush digital forests of the Crysis game.
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The chips are expected to display much more sophisticated graphics and extend battery life on portable computers to eight to 10 hours.
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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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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