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Computing

US Nixes Three Of Rambus’ Most Prized Patents

12:00AM January 29, 2012 | Andrew Tarantola

Three patents pertaining to memory chip design that were used to successfully sue HP and NVIDIA — dubbed the Barth Patents — are among Rambus’ most valuable IP. Excuse me, they were among Rambus’ most valuable until the US patent office invalidated them. More »


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This Nvidia Tablet Is Why Windows 8 Will Be Awesome

11:30AM January 11, 2012 | Sam Biddle

The next big version of Windows got a lacklustre reception when it first landed on a tablet. It looked and worked great, yeah, but was knocked for a little clunkiness. Now, it’s running on superfast phone guts — and it will be great. More »


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7-Inch Asus Tablet Has Tegra 3 Power For US$250

4:45PM January 10, 2012 | Brian Barrett

There aren’t a lot of secrets left about Nvidia’s Tegra 3 quad-core mobile guts; after all, it’s already been on shelves in the Transformer Prime for weeks. In fact, the only question left has been what other devices we’ll see it in. More »


Entertainment

“The Muppets” Movie Isn’t All Puppetry

2:00PM November 24, 2011 | Casey Chan

The magic of the muppets is that they’re ‘real’, or as real as puppetry gets. Still, even when the Muppets could have easily gone CGI, they stuck to their roots. That doesn’t mean everything in the new Muppets movie was old school though. Even muppets need the magic of the movies. More »


Computing

Meet The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime, The World’s First Supercomputer Tablet

9:30AM November 10, 2011 | Brent Rose

When Apple’s Power Mac G4 came out it was classified as a super computer. It had dual-processors! What would the people of the past have made of this tablet computer, which is the first to have a quad-core processor? More »


Gadgets

The Tegra 3 Is Naked

12:00PM November 5, 2011 | Sam Biddle

While we’re all waiting to play with tablets running on NVIDIA’s smokey quad-core (plus one) wonder, Wireless Goodness got its mitts on photos of the chip in the flesh. More »


Gaming

3D Gaming On PCs Is Looking Bigger And Brighter (Literally)

5:30PM October 16, 2011 | Matt Buchanan

I would be lying if I said I was going to rush out to buy a new PC and 3D monitor so I can stab zombies in the brain in 3D, but I can honestly tell you NVIDIA’s 3D Vision 2 is much better than the original. More »


Computing

How To Make A 50-Petaflop Supercomputer Even More Powerful

6:58AM October 12, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

Supercomputing has hit a wall — researchers can’t simply daisy-chain any more processors together to increase computational power due to energy constraints. The new Titan project hopes to do an end-around on that issue by transferring some of the load to… graphics cards? More »


Mobile

Inside Nvidia’s Tegra 3 CPU And Its Secret Fifth Core

3:47AM September 21, 2011 | Adrian Covert

There’s a not-so-dirty little secret about NVIDIA’s upcoming Tegra 3 platform (which will soon find a home in plenty of mobile devices): the quad-core processor contained within has a fifth core for less intensive tasks. More »


Mobile

Nvidia’s Tegra 2 Successors Are Planning A Takeover

8:51AM September 13, 2011 | Kwame Opam

At last week’s Citi Technology Conference, Nvidia showed off their roadmap for their Tegra line of smartphone chips. The takeaway: their “Wayne” and “Grey” chipsets could give them an in with most handset makers by 2013. More »