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How NASA’s Fermi Telescope Sidestepped A Gigantic Space Crash
There’s are kinds of asteroids and other debris cruising through space, but a lot of the really dangerous stuff is stuff we put there ourselves. NASA’s cosmic bubble-spotting Fermi telescope almost had an intergalactic fender bender, but not with some epoch-old rock floating through the cosmos. No, it almost got crushed by some Cold War-era rubbish.
Nvidia’s GeForce 400M Series Roids Up Notebook Graphics Of All Classes
Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 480M Just Turned Your Notebook’s Graphics Card Into A Sad Little Chip
Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 480M is the steroidal notebook graphics card you’ve been waiting for (if you’re a huge nerd): The world’s fastest notebook GPU according to Nvidia, it’s the first mobile chip using Nvidia’s ridiculous Fermi architecture.
Nvidia’s Fermi Graphics Card Roadmap: When You Can Melt Your Eyeballs For Cheaper
Nvidia GeForce GTX 480: The “Fastest GPU In The World” Is $US500 Of Eyeball Toastiness
Nvidia GTX 480 Takes On ATI HD 5870 In Benchmark Gauntlet
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Nvidia’s First Raging Fermi Graphics Cards: GeForce GTX 470/480
The first Fermi graphics cards from Nvidia will bear the names GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 470. All preliminary hearsay indicates they will be ornery beasts. And cost as much as dragons. [Nvidia]
Nvidia GF100 512-Core Monster Graphics Card Previewed
Nvidia Fermi Now Delayed By Four Months, ATI Licks Its Chops
According to a report on DigiTimes, Nvidia’s new 40nm DirectX 11-friendly Fermi chipset, after encountering development delays, has been pushed back again. Originally slated for November 2009, now we’re looking at March 2010 for the release. Meanwhile, ATI will release its comparable 40nm chips in January or February. [DigiTimes]
