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NVidia Claims World First For Its Graphics Processing Unit
News nVidia has released what it claims is the world's first graphics processing unit (GPU), the GeForce 256, formerly code-named N10. It features a four-pixel rendering pipeline, double that of the TNT2, an integrated geometry processing engine and an...
[September 1, 1999, 14:51]
NVidia Brings Xbox Technology To The PC
News The IGP comprises the GeForce2 graphics processing unit, a TwinBank 128-bit (twin 64-bit) memory architecture and a Dynamic Adaptive Speculative Pre-processor (DASP) that together deliver excellent 2D and 3D graphics acceleration, wide memory...
[June 5, 2001, 8:34]
New GeForce Arrives Next Month
News The new chip will also bring high-end desktop graphics closer to the capabilities of the graphics processing unit (GPU) that Nvidia custom-built for Microsoft's Xbox gaming console. Nvidia's next-generation graphics chip for PCs, code-named NV-25...
[January 4, 2002, 14:20]
New GeForce 7800 GS For AGP Users
White Papers NVIDIA Brings a GeForce 7 Series GPU Architecture to the Huge Installed Base of AGP-Equipped PCs NVIDIA Corporation has introduced the new NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) for AGP-based systems.
[September 6, 2006, 0:00]
DirectX 7: What’s New For Graphics
White Papers NVIDIA’s GeForce 256 GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) fully supports the entire suite of DirectX 7 for graphics. Microsoft’s introduction of DirectX 7 introduces a wide range of new 3D graphics features for the personal computer.
[October 30, 2003, 23:00]
Graphics Hardware Requirements That Enable Improved Audio/Video Synchronization And Performance Validation
White Papers It describes new display position counters that will be used to improve A/V synchronization, and it describes a graphics processing unit (GPU) time stamp that can be used to determine when hardware completes the operations that are involved in...
[April 1, 2004, 0:00]
Windows Vista Pillars: Windows Presentation Foundation (Avalon)
White Papers These technologies comprise the engine for driving the graphics subsystem, which will be primarily supplied by the Video Graphics Card or Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), and is also responsible for redrawing Vista's interface.
[March 14, 2006, 23:00]
Programmability Features Of Graphics Hardware
White Papers These programmable features are represented by the vertex engines and pixel pipelines found in modern Graphics Processing Units (GPU). This paper presents an overview of the new programmable features of modern graphics hardware.
[February 29, 2008, 23:00]
Nvidia Unveils NV20 Graphics Chip
News Graphics chipmaker Nvidia today unveiled details of its latest GPU (graphics processing unit), the NV20, promising a substantial performance improvement on previous Nvidia chips. An NV20 graphics board could be capable of rendering 1.2 billion...
[February 27, 2001, 11:54]
Intel's Chipset Road Map Lacks A Driver
News Discrete graphics cards use dedicated memory right next to the graphics processing unit, which means that the GPU doesn't have to reach over to the main system memory when it's looking for instructions.
[May 18, 2007, 14:29]
Intel: Hyper-threading To Speed Desktops
News The technology allows different elements of the chip, such as the integer unit for graphics processing and the floating-point unit for complex calculations, to be active at the same time. Glaskowsky compared the effort to Native Signal Processing...
[September 10, 2002, 7:34]
Analysis: Intel Takes Integrated Approach
News Intel plans to build in functions from its i740 graphics processor as well as some sound processing. Available since February 1997, Cyrix shipped well over 1m MediaGX processors in its first 12 months, a unit that merges graphics, audio, memory and...
[July 14, 1998, 6:59]
Sun Blazes Away With 14-CPU Graphics Dream Machine
News It can be configured with up to six processors, three creator 3D graphics boards, 6Gb RAM and 42Gb storage. It can comprise up to 14 processors, four creator 3D graphics boards, 14Gb RAM and 16.8Gb hard drive.
[November 25, 1996, 10:16]
Nvidia To Phase Out GeForce3
News A fully programmable architecture would also make it easier to build multi-processor graphics cards, as one GPU (graphics processing unit) could be programmed to carry out half of the chip's functions while another GPU took care of the remaining...
[February 7, 2002, 13:08]
IBM Breeds PowerPC Chip From Server DNA
News It will be used when the chip is handling graphics or processing signals. Moreover, the new PowerPC will have a vector-processing unit with more than 160 specialized vector instructions, the Microprocessor Forum site said.
[August 9, 2002, 9:03]
AMD To Purchase ATI For $5.4bn
News We want to be the GP provider for everything that needs a GPU (graphics-processing unit). The pending merger is expected to have little effect on Nvidia's graphics-processing (GP) business strategy, said Derek Perez, an Nvidia spokesman.
[July 24, 2006, 13:20]
IDF: Intel Unveils Banias Secrets
News Banias supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 -- the single instructions, multiple data capability aimed at digital signal processing, 3D graphics and the like -- and supports APIC mode, the bedrock of multiprocessing in the Intel architecture.
[September 11, 2002, 13:57]
PlayStation 3 Chip Nears Completion
News A set-top box containing a Cell chip could, for example, combine to share processing power with a Cell-powered high-definition television to render the graphics of an animated movie. The chip will not only perform the heavy computational tasks...
[August 6, 2002, 13:07]
Nuggets: GeForce2 Ultra To Ship In September
News Graphics cards based on nVidia's latest 3D graphics processing unit (GPU), the GeForce2 Ultra, will be available from Creative Labs next month amid a flurry of marketing hype announcing the unit as the fastest ever.
[August 16, 2000, 10:12]
Nvidia Makes Google Earth 'emotional Reality'
News The Quadro Plex 1000 unit, which the company has described as "an order-of-magnitude increase in levels of productivity and capability for advanced visualisation", is based on Nvidia's SLI multi-GPU (graphics processing unit) technology, and will...
[August 4, 2006, 16:15]
