The rumours about yet another possible re-branding of the products by Nvidia Corp. have emerged once again and this time they say that the company plans to rename the GeForce 9800-series as early as this March.
Nvidia once renamed the GeForce 8800-series into 9800-series without improving it much and now the company wants to do that again, but change the name of the GeForce 9800 GTX+ and 9800 GT graphics cards to GeForce GTX 250 and GeForce GTX 240, respectively, according to a news-story by Expreview web-site that quotes an allegedly official message by Nvidia to its partners.
“GeForce GTS 250 carries over the same specs and features of 9800 GTX+, and hence the same GPU, memory, board, PCB, and thermal solution.
(Full article ‘Nvidia Reportedly Plots Another Re-Branding for Mainstream Graphics Cards’)
Apple, a maker of personal computers and a leading supplier of portable digital media players, is reportedly working on a device based on Intel Corp.’s Atom processor as well as Nvidia Corp.’s Ion platform. No details are available at this time, but it can be expected that Apple is preparing a new Apple TV, Apple Mac Mini or Apple Mac netbook.
A news-story by Tom’s Hardware web-site claims that a partner of Nvidia Corp. said that “Apple was the first to receive samples of Nvidia’s Ion platform”, which is designed to support Intel Atom processors, and that Apple got prototypes of Ion “long before” other partners of Nvidia.
(Full article ‘Apple Interested in Nvidia’s Ion Platform, Intel Atom Processors – Media Report’)
Nvidia Corp. has begun shipments of its new graphics card that features two graphics processing units (GPUs) to offer extreme levels of performance. Unlike in previous times, the new graphics board does not carry incredible price-tag as due to economic slump few people would invest over $500 into a new accelerator for video games on the PC.
Nvidia GeForce GTX 295 graphics card is powered by two code-named G200b chips each featuring 240 shader processors (SPs), 80 texture units (TUs), 30 render back ends (RBEs) and 448-bit memory interface. Nvidia recommends its partners to clock the GPU at 576MHz with stream processing operating at 1242MHz and also set the memory’s frequency to 1998MHz.
(Full article ‘Nvidia Begins to Ship New Dual-Chip GeForce GTX 295 Graphics Card’)
Even though Nvidia Corp. was quoted as saying that Intel Corp. only sells its Atom processors for netbooks and nettops bundled with its own core-logic sets, which is why none of device manufacturers were interested in Nvidia’s Ion platform powered by GeForce 9400M chipset, Intel Corp. denied that it blocks Nvidia from entering the market of ultra low-cost personal computers (ULCPCs).
“We do sell Atom both bundled and as stand alone,” an Intel spokesperson told X-bit labs.
According to Intel officials, Nvidia does not need to obtain a separate license to make and sell chipsets compatible with Intel Atom processors aimed mostly at ULCPCs.
Nvidia recently introduced its GeForce 9400M is a single-chip core-logic for Intel Atom processors with DirectX 10-compatible GeForce 9-class graphics processor inside that also supports dual-channel DDR3 memory, PCI Express 2.0 x16 and x4 links, Serial ATA, USB, Gigabit Ethernet and so on.
(Full article ‘Intel Claims It Does Not Force to Buy Intel Atom with Core-Logic’)
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Nvidia Reveals Quadro CX Graphics Accelerator for Adobe Creative Suite 4.
Nvidia Quadro CX Accelerates Processing of Photoshop CS4, After Effects CS4, Premiere Pro CS4
[10/20/2008 10:40 PM]
by Anton Shilov
Nvidia Corp. has unveiled its new professional graphics accelerator aimed at designers and creative professionals. The new Quadro CX accelerates such applications as Adobe Photoshop CS4, After Effects CS4 and Premiere Pro CS4 with the help of OpenGL as well as computer unified device architecture (CUDA) Nvidia’s proprietary technology.
According to Nvidia, through the help of OpenGL, its Quadro CX graphics processing unit enables real-time image rotation, zooming, and panning, and makes changes to the view instantaneous and smooth.
(Full article ‘Nvidia Reveals Quadro CX Graphics Accelerator for Adobe Creative Suite 4′)