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Computing

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

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.

November 24, 2011
Entertainment

“The Muppets” Movie Isn’t All Puppetry

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.

November 10, 2011
Computing

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

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?

November 5, 2011
Gadgets

The Tegra 3 Is Naked

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.

October 16, 2011
Gaming

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

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.

October 12, 2011
Computing

How To Make A 50-Petaflop Supercomputer Even More Powerful

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?

September 21, 2011
Mobile

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

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.

September 13, 2011
Mobile

Nvidia’s Tegra 2 Successors Are Planning A Takeover

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.

June 14, 2011
Computing

NVIDIA Can Soon Build Its Own All-In-One Chipsets With Icera Purchase

NVIDIA completed its purchase of Icera, a wireless modem company. With this technology under its belt, NVIDIA can build a mobile processor with a cellular radio and a baseband applications processor. Icera already develops a product that combines NVIDIA’s Tegra processor with an HSPA+ radio and support for Android.

June 10, 2011
Mobile

Motorola Photon 4G: Sprint’s Tegra 2-Powered, International Roaming Android Phone

Motorola’s Photon 4G is the first Sprint phone equipped with the Tegra 2 chipset and it’s their first 4G phone to have international roaming capabilities.

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