Nvidia to put more force behind Intel processors
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A broad patent agreement will let the graphic-chip specialist build chipsets for Intel PCs.
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By Mark Boslet, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 20--Nvidia launched a new product line Wednesday that is intended to open a new competitive front with Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.
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AMD is expected to unveil its most powerful desktop processors to date this week, a few days after rival Intel disclosed changes to its desktop processor road map.
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Graphics chip maker Nvidia Corp.   sees no need to pursue a merger of the kind its rival  ATI Technologies Inc. has struck with No. 2 computer processor  producer Advanced Micro Devices Inc. , an Nvidia  executive said on Monday.
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Mainstream gaming targeted Nvidia has taken the wraps off its 'G92' graphics chip, the foundation for the GeForce 8800 GT, as past reports revealed.â¦
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Intel Corp. has signed a cross-licensing agreement with Nvidia Corp. that would allow the 3-D graphics chipmaker to start selling chipsets for PCs that use Intel&#39;s microprocessors, the companies said Friday.
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In addition to what Nvidia has already said itself
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Unified shaders to work on game physic too, it's suggested Nvidia will initially launch two graphics boards based on its next-generation 'G80' GPU when the graphics chip maker brings the product to market in the middle of November, it has been claimed. The boards may also be the first to tout a new physics processing system.â¦
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Motherboard chip sets don&#39;t normally excite much attention in the security world, but Nvidia&#39;s NForce 4 could turn out to be the exception.
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Graphics chip vendor readies the general release of its CUDA software, while extolling the power of general purpose computing on GPUs.
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PCIe 2.0 and Penryn - bring 'em on Review Nvidiaâs new nForce 780i SLI chipset is heavily â thatâs HEAVILY â based on the nForce 680i SLI, adding just two key new features. The first is support for 45nm Intel 'Penryn' processors and the second is the addition of PCI Express 2.0 for top graphics performance. Itâs safe to say that the 780i SLI is Nvidiaâs answer to Intelâs X38 chipset, but itâs not a direct comparison as Nvidia is sticking with DDR 2 memory instead of making the shift to DDR 3.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Nvidia is promoting the idea that the GPUs it makes can also operate, when needed, as additional CPUs to vastly increase computing power. "[The GPU] is just sitting there, and a lot of people got this great idea, 'Gee, let's do some computing with this,'" said John Nickolls, director of architecture for Nvidia, in a presentation Wednesday at the Microprocessor Forum 2007 in San Jose, California. When it's not performing graphics-related tasks, the GPU can be used in parallel with the CPU, Nickolls said, delivering up to 200 billion FLOPS (floating-point operations per second), a measure of computer performance. Nvidia released a beta version of software called CUDA (for compute unified device architecture) in February. A general release is expected in the second half of this year. CUDA allows software developers to write programs that instruct the GPU to perform some computing functions normally done only by the CPU. Using the GPU as a CPU is not new, said Nickolls, but CUDA should make it easier for software developers to do. CUDA only works on Nvidia's GeForce 8800 and 8600 and the Quadro FX 4600 and 5600 GPUs introduced in November 2006. The GeForce GPU, for example, can act as a coprocessor to the CPU, has its own 16KB memory, and runs more than 128,000 instruction threads in parallel, he said. Groups of threads can also work together to accomplish one task. "People buy GPUs to do graphics, but it's just sitting there in your PC most of the time," said Nickolls. "It's a wonderful high-performance massively parallel computer, so we're trying to open that up a bit." Applications that could run on a GPU used as a CPU include those used in the fields of science, medicine, finance, or other work that depends on high processing power. Nvidia's approach differs from the one touted by AMD Tuesday at Microprocessor Forum. AMD, whichÂ acquired the graphics chip company ATI Technologies in 2006, is in the early stages of development ofÂ a combined CPU/GPU called Fusion, which is due some time in 2009. Fusion is offered more as a cost play, Nickolls said, in order to reduce cost by combining the GPU and CPU rather than to boost performance. The two-day Microprocessor Forum was hosted by the research firm In-Stat.ADVERTISEMENTIBM Information On Demand 2006Industrial Industry Leaders, please join us at IBM's premier information management global event, IBM Information On Demand 2006, October 15-20, Anaheim, CA. More IBM business and technical solutions content in one place than ever before! Select from  over 800 sessions. Register today!
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Wall Street eyes deal as AMD-ATI merger nears completion If your arch-rival buys one of two highly competitive graphics chip companies, what else can you do but acquire the other GPU maker? That's exactly what it was yesterday claimed Intel would do: snap up Nvidia after AMD's move to acquire ATI.â¦
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) is expected to unveil its most powerful desktop processors to date on Tuesday, a few days after rival Intel Corp. disclosed changes to its desktop processor road map.
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Intel and graphics processing vendor nVidia said today that they have signed a wide-ranging technology sharing pact that will let nVidia use Intelâs front-side bus (FSB) technology.
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AMD is expected to unveil its most powerful desktop processors to date today, a few days after rival Intel disclosed changes to its desktop processor road map.
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Recent months have seen AMD taking an upper hand over Intel in the chip market. And the latest news is another new indication that Intel is struggling to keep up with the pace they once spearheaded.