Glofo to pick up Samsung's Apple tab?
There’s been much speculation about the core of Apple’s new wunder gadget, the iPad, especially when it comes down to the pips or, rather, the chips. What we do know is that Apple wasn’t giving Intel...
View ArticleMellanox builds China's first petaflop supercomputer
Mellanox has announced that its ConnextX-2 adaptors will be used in a new petaflop supercomputer called the Mole-8.5, which will use the InfiniBand adaptors to give a transfer speed of up to 40GB/s.The...
View ArticleNvidia CUDA ace to move on to AMD
Nvidia's VP for CUDA seems to think that the grass is greener on the other side, with rumours floating around that Manju Hegde will be seeking employment at AMD instead.Hegde founded his own company,...
View ArticleDell shoves Nvidia kit into its blades
Dell has announced that it will offer graphics processing units with a new blade server. The move, which boosts overall application performance, is part of the vision of the Nvidia, which wants to...
View ArticlePatent office rules that Microsoft came up with GPU acceleration
While it may not have cast itself as the champion of GPU acceleration of video, as far as the US Patent Office is concerned, Microsoft came up with the idea. The USPTO has awarded a patent for GPU...
View ArticleNvidia trims expectations for supercomputer users
A top visualisation scientist has heard that chip maker Nvidia is trimming its drivers to only support eight GPUs per system image instead of the promised 16. Supercomputer expert Randall Hand said...
View ArticleResearch fuels supercomputer war between US and China
The supercomputer war between the US and China is set to begin in earnest with the advent of research by the University of Warwick that will be presented at the Supercomputing conference in New...
View ArticleAMD dismisses the app store approach
Chipmaker AMD has ruled out developing an app store as a method of pushing its GPGPU approach. Xbit claims that AMD might be missing a trick by not adopting the app store model to popularise software...
View ArticleAMD's Trinity slide leaked
A slide which provides performance specs of AMD's new platform, Trinity shows that it will have a 30 per cent performance increase over Llano. According to the Turkish site, DonanimHaber the slides...
View ArticleNvidia all-in on 28nm
Nvidia's financial presentation, although targeting investors, has laid out Nvidia’s plans for the entire year, and it all rests on TSMC’s shoulders to bring home the bacon with its 28nm manufacturing...
View ArticleQualcomm announces fancy Snapdragon S4 Pro
Qualcomm, the designer of the Snapdragon family of system-on-a-chip (SoC), has announced it is releasing an upgraded version to its already brand-new Snapdragon S4 SoC, called the S4 Pro, increasing...
View ArticleTyan signs up for Xeon E5-2600
Server maker Tyan has released eight platforms based on the Intel Xeon E5-2600 processor. Chipzilla is touting the E5-2600 as offering high peak performance along with better power efficiency for...
View ArticleIntel's Ivy Bridge to have L4 cache
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a yarn which suggests that Intel's new Haswell architecture will have L4 cache which can be shared between the CPU and the GPU. If it is true, then Haswell...
View ArticleNvidia thinks Android is disrupting PC maket
Nvidia managed to beat the street once again, but CEO Jen-Hsun Huang sees some rough seas ahead. During Nvidia’s first-quarter earnings call, Huang said the company’s upcoming fourth generation Tegra...
View ArticleNvidia to license GPU IP to ARM outfits
Nvidia appears to be radically rethinking its Tegra business model. Writing in his bog, company spokesman David Shannon said Nvidia’s “next step” is to license GPU cores and visual computing patents to...
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