For employees that have stock in the company with share value of 17.50$ or more will get a cash tender offer for certain employee stock options.
Source: Nvidia.com
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Nvidia Offers Employee Stock Holders Special offer
For employees that have stock in the company with share value of 17.50$ or more will get a cash tender offer for certain employee stock options.
Source: Nvidia.com
Nvidia And Microsoft Continue to Make their Partnership
Microsoft has approved nvidia's Ion platform 9400 Gpu that will be used with the ATOM CPU on the new netbooks that are coming out, this will also give netbook oems piece of mind on moving forward with plans.
Source: Tomshardware.com
SLI On Intel X58 Motherboards?!
Yup looks like it, Rather surprising if you ask me. From what it looks like the new X58 Chipset boards will use anywhere from Dual to quad SLI because of the partnership that Intel and Nvidia are making.
Source: Tomshardware.com
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
NVIDIA Reports Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2009
Nvidia's Revenue was $481.1 million compared to $1.2 billion for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2008, a decrease of 60 percent.
From my point of view this will all settle down, yeah they didn't do good in sales but which company has done good sense the economy went down.
Source: Nvidia.com
From my point of view this will all settle down, yeah they didn't do good in sales but which company has done good sense the economy went down.
Source: Nvidia.com
BFGTech GeForce GTX 285 OCX
Today we have the BFGTech GeForce GTX 285 OCX on the table: The fastest of the four GTX 285 models that BFGTech offers. We see how it stacks up against a reference GeForce GTX 285 and an AMD Radeon HD 4870 X2 in CoD: WaW, Fallout 3, FarCry 2, L4D, and by popular demand GTA IV.
Source: hardocp.com
Source: hardocp.com
NVIDIA's Ion Platform: Performance Preview
One of the most detailed Previews / Reviews of the new Nvidia's Ion Platform even with benchmarks.
Source: anandtech.com
Source: anandtech.com
Monday, February 9, 2009
Value In SLI? GTX 260 Core 216 Vs. GTX 280 : Does Three Of A Kind Really Beat A High Pair?
Does Three Of A Kind Really Beat A High Pair?
Everyone has his or her own ideas about what value and performance mean, some buyers choosing to bolster a low-end system with high-end graphics while others might inadvertently cripple performance platforms with mid-priced parts. Our most recent System Builder Marathon attempted to balance CPU and graphics performance within strict budget limits, but our most controversial build surprised everyone with its 3-way SLI set of moderately-priced performance graphics cards.
Source: Tomshardware.com
Everyone has his or her own ideas about what value and performance mean, some buyers choosing to bolster a low-end system with high-end graphics while others might inadvertently cripple performance platforms with mid-priced parts. Our most recent System Builder Marathon attempted to balance CPU and graphics performance within strict budget limits, but our most controversial build surprised everyone with its 3-way SLI set of moderately-priced performance graphics cards.
Source: Tomshardware.com
GeForce GTX 295 In Quad-SLI : Meet The New "GX2"
Rumors of a GT200-based dual-GPU solution from Nvidia quickly began circulating after AMD’s Radeon HD 4870 X2 knocked the GeForce GTX 280 from its performance throne. Nvidia certainly had the design experience, with its GeForce 7950 GX2 and GeForce 9800 GX2 paving the way for further improvements in its multiple-GPU product line. However, those rumors were quickly quashed by the logic that two full GTX 280 processors at 65nm would require too much power and create too much heat to be combined in a single package.
Source: Tomshardware.com
Source: Tomshardware.com
Nvidia's GeForce GTX 285: A Worthy Successor? : Faster And Cheaper
A manufacturing process shrink is a lot to get excited about for both vendors and their customers, as the change normally leads to increased performance and efficiency, while reducing production cost by increasing the number of units produced per wafer. But the eventual benefit to design firms often comes at a huge up-front cost, since significant alterations normally result in bugs that need to be fixed before a full production run can begin. Each test run costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, so it pays to get things right the first or second time. Production delays are an even costlier problem when new architecture is involved, which is why Nvidia normally updates its current products before introducing any new ones.
Source: Tomshardware.com
Source: Tomshardware.com
Nvidia GT218 Card & Specs Possibly Surfacing
Technical drawings and specifications for the upcoming Nvidia GT218 cards seem to be surfacing slowly – possibly more information to follow at CeBIT this coming March and a possible public launch in April.
The GT218 will be the first 40nm based GPU rolling out from Nvidia and word has it there are at least 4 SKUs on different PCB designs (something that has yet to be 100% confirmed). The following image was scooped up by outside sources and gives us a glimpse of what the hardware might actually look like. It is based on the P692 PCB design codenamed D10M1-30. Core clock rate is 550MHz and the shader clock comes in at 1375MHz while memory is expected to be introduced at 512MB DDR3 at 800MHz on a 64bit interface. The exact number of shader processors has not been revealed as of current however the card is expected to have typical support for Dual Link DVI, DisplayPort, VGA and all the other common things.
Source: Tomshardware.com
The GT218 will be the first 40nm based GPU rolling out from Nvidia and word has it there are at least 4 SKUs on different PCB designs (something that has yet to be 100% confirmed). The following image was scooped up by outside sources and gives us a glimpse of what the hardware might actually look like. It is based on the P692 PCB design codenamed D10M1-30. Core clock rate is 550MHz and the shader clock comes in at 1375MHz while memory is expected to be introduced at 512MB DDR3 at 800MHz on a 64bit interface. The exact number of shader processors has not been revealed as of current however the card is expected to have typical support for Dual Link DVI, DisplayPort, VGA and all the other common things.
Source: Tomshardware.com
Nvidia to Rename GeForce Models at CeBIT
A leaked circular issued by Nvidia says that the company will display the upcoming GeForce GTS 250. It sure looks purdy!
EXPreview threw up a poll yesterday, asking its readers about whether renaming the G92 series is a wise decision or not. But what followed the poll was information based on a leaked circular authored by Santa Clara, California-based Nvidia, claiming that the new GeForce GTS 250 graphics card will be officially announced on the first Tuesday of March during CeBIT 2009 in Hanover, Germany. However, the card isn't exactly new so to speak, and Nvidia's practice in rebranding versions of existing models is nothing new either.
“GeForce GTS 250 carries over the same specs and features of 9800 GTX+, and hence the same GPU, memory, board, PCB, and thermal solution," states Nvidia in the circular. "AIC’s should be confident in purchasing GPU’s, PCB’s, and other materials, since the only change is a new VBIOS to implement the new branding”
Source: Tomshardware.com
EXPreview threw up a poll yesterday, asking its readers about whether renaming the G92 series is a wise decision or not. But what followed the poll was information based on a leaked circular authored by Santa Clara, California-based Nvidia, claiming that the new GeForce GTS 250 graphics card will be officially announced on the first Tuesday of March during CeBIT 2009 in Hanover, Germany. However, the card isn't exactly new so to speak, and Nvidia's practice in rebranding versions of existing models is nothing new either.
“GeForce GTS 250 carries over the same specs and features of 9800 GTX+, and hence the same GPU, memory, board, PCB, and thermal solution," states Nvidia in the circular. "AIC’s should be confident in purchasing GPU’s, PCB’s, and other materials, since the only change is a new VBIOS to implement the new branding”
Source: Tomshardware.com
Nvidia CEO: Netbooks are Crappy, Low-Cost PCs
For modern computing technology, you can’t really find many companies that are more committed to bringing the cutting edge to the consumer than Nvidia -- and perhaps for that reason, the graphics company isn’t entirely thrilled with the Intel Atom, at least not in its current implementations.
Source: Tomshardware.com
Source: Tomshardware.com
Intel Shipping Upgraded Atom, HD Video Chipset From Nvidia
While the N280 doesn’t differ from the N270 in clock speed, with both running at 1.6 GHz, the newer chip benefits from being paired with the new GN40, which brings with it HD video acceleration.
As handy as netbooks have proven to be at casual web browsing and even the odd video, it does trip up when it comes to the more intensive multimedia features. The GN40 chipset adds hardware help for playback of 720p video, making the Atom N280 set probably a better companion now than a portable DVD player (particularly if you have high-def video encodes).
The Atom N280 itself has a lower thermal design power at 2 W compared to the N270 at 2.5 W, but with the beefier chipset, the N280 and GN40 TDP jumps to 16.5 W. The N270 with the N945GSE has a TDP of 11.8 W.
Of course, the upgraded N280 with the GN40, while better with videos, doesn’t really measure up to what Nvidia brings to the table with the Ion chipset. We took a look at the Nvidia Ion paired with the Atom in more of a nettop form, but such a chipset would be mighty impressive in a netbook.
For now, however, the Atom N280 and GN40 is the only available option for 720p video from a netbook -- and it’s not bad if you can get several movies' worth out of it from the Asus Eee 1000HE.
Source: Tomshardware.com
As handy as netbooks have proven to be at casual web browsing and even the odd video, it does trip up when it comes to the more intensive multimedia features. The GN40 chipset adds hardware help for playback of 720p video, making the Atom N280 set probably a better companion now than a portable DVD player (particularly if you have high-def video encodes).
The Atom N280 itself has a lower thermal design power at 2 W compared to the N270 at 2.5 W, but with the beefier chipset, the N280 and GN40 TDP jumps to 16.5 W. The N270 with the N945GSE has a TDP of 11.8 W.
Of course, the upgraded N280 with the GN40, while better with videos, doesn’t really measure up to what Nvidia brings to the table with the Ion chipset. We took a look at the Nvidia Ion paired with the Atom in more of a nettop form, but such a chipset would be mighty impressive in a netbook.
For now, however, the Atom N280 and GN40 is the only available option for 720p video from a netbook -- and it’s not bad if you can get several movies' worth out of it from the Asus Eee 1000HE.
Source: Tomshardware.com
National Taiwan University Becomes Worlds First Asia-Pacific CUDA Center Of Excellence
TAIPEI, TAIWAN —JANUARY 22, 2009 — NVIDIA Corporation and National Taiwan University (NTU), one of the world’s leading research universities, today announced that NTU has been named as Asia’s first CUDA Center of Excellence. NTU earned this title by formally adopting NVIDIA GPU Computing solutions across its research facilities and integrating a class to teach parallel computing based on the CUDA® architecture into its educational curriculum. NTU joins previously recognized CUDA Centers of Excellence, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Utah with more announcements expected in the coming weeks.
Source: Nvidia.com
Source: Nvidia.com
NVIDIA Supercharges Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 Software with Quadro CX Bundle
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Jan. 20, 2008—Professional video editors looking to purchase the ultimate Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS4 experience, need to look no further. Starting today, the creative professional can acquire a copy of Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and add a NVIDIA® Quadro® CX at more than 40% off of the retail price, a savings of $800 USD.
The addition of the Quadro CX will deliver unmatched performance with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, including the ability to encode H.264 videos up to 4 times faster. Specifically, what used to take 10 hours to encode a one hour Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 project to H.264 on a Dual-Core CPU, now takes two hours and 35 minutes.
This new bundle is available today, from leading resellers, e-tailers and retailers at an introductory price of $1,999 USD until March 31, 2009. Following the introductory offer, the Quadro CX and Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 bundle will be available at an estimated street price of $2,299 USD (sold separately, the Quadro CX would sell at $1,999 (MSRP) and the Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 for $799).
“NVIDIA specifically designed and optimized the Quadro CX graphics card to enhance the performance of Adobe Creative Suite® 4 Production Premium and meet the unique needs of its creative professional users,” said Jeff Brown, general manager of the Professional Solutions Group at NVIDIA. “We worked closely with Adobe on GPU optimization to achieve benchmark-busting performance and enhance the already rock-solid stability of Adobe Premiere Pro CS4. The results are astonishing.”
Source: Nvidia.com
The addition of the Quadro CX will deliver unmatched performance with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, including the ability to encode H.264 videos up to 4 times faster. Specifically, what used to take 10 hours to encode a one hour Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 project to H.264 on a Dual-Core CPU, now takes two hours and 35 minutes.
This new bundle is available today, from leading resellers, e-tailers and retailers at an introductory price of $1,999 USD until March 31, 2009. Following the introductory offer, the Quadro CX and Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 bundle will be available at an estimated street price of $2,299 USD (sold separately, the Quadro CX would sell at $1,999 (MSRP) and the Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 for $799).
“NVIDIA specifically designed and optimized the Quadro CX graphics card to enhance the performance of Adobe Creative Suite® 4 Production Premium and meet the unique needs of its creative professional users,” said Jeff Brown, general manager of the Professional Solutions Group at NVIDIA. “We worked closely with Adobe on GPU optimization to achieve benchmark-busting performance and enhance the already rock-solid stability of Adobe Premiere Pro CS4. The results are astonishing.”
Source: Nvidia.com
NVIDIA Names Stanford's Bill Dally Chief Scientist, VP Of Research
SANTA CLARA, CA –JANUARY 28, 2009 –NVIDIA Corporation today announced that Bill Dally, the chairman of Stanford University’s computer science department, will join the company as Chief Scientist and Vice President of NVIDIA Research. The company also announced that longtime Chief Scientist David Kirk has been appointed “NVIDIA Fellow.”
“I am thrilled to welcome Bill to NVIDIA at such a pivotal time for our company,” said Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO, NVIDIA. “His pioneering work in stream processors at Stanford greatly influenced the work we are doing at NVIDIA today. As one of the world’s founding visionaries in parallel computing, he shares our passion for the GPU’s evolution into a general purpose parallel processor and how it is increasingly becoming the soul of the new PC. His reputation as an innovator in our industry is unrivaled. It is truly an honor to have a legend like Bill in our company.”
“I would also like to congratulate David Kirk for the enormous impact he has had at NVIDIA. David has worn many hats over the years – from product architecture to chief evangelist. His technical and strategic insight has helped us enable an entire new world of visual computing. We will all continue to benefit from his valuable contributions.”
Source: Nvidia.com
“I am thrilled to welcome Bill to NVIDIA at such a pivotal time for our company,” said Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO, NVIDIA. “His pioneering work in stream processors at Stanford greatly influenced the work we are doing at NVIDIA today. As one of the world’s founding visionaries in parallel computing, he shares our passion for the GPU’s evolution into a general purpose parallel processor and how it is increasingly becoming the soul of the new PC. His reputation as an innovator in our industry is unrivaled. It is truly an honor to have a legend like Bill in our company.”
“I would also like to congratulate David Kirk for the enormous impact he has had at NVIDIA. David has worn many hats over the years – from product architecture to chief evangelist. His technical and strategic insight has helped us enable an entire new world of visual computing. We will all continue to benefit from his valuable contributions.”
Source: Nvidia.com
Nvidia Working on x86 CPU
For the second time in less than a week, graphics chipset maker Nvidia is at the center of a rumor that could turn the tech sectors upside down.
Last week, the California-based GPU maker was rumored to be pushed out of the console graphics market by none other than Intel. This week, it seems as if the tables have turned, with Nvidia reportedly working on an x86 CPU.
According to The Inquirer, the GPU powerhouse is trying to produce an x86 chip. While the legal implications may stop anything concrete dead in its tracks, that probably wouldn't stop Nvidia from producing the hardware and worrying about a financial settlement later. When Nvidia started collaborating with Stexar back in 2006, many were predicting that some sort of CPU would be the result. It's been over two years, so the market may finally be privy to the fruit of Nvidia's labors.
"Word reached us a bit ago that Nvidia is definitely working on an x86 chip and the firm is heavily recruiting x86 engineers all over Silicon Valley," says The Inquirer.
While producing an x86 CPU would certainly put a wrench in the works for Intel and AMD, the move seems to be off message for Nvidia. For the past year or so, Nvidia has been pushing its GPGPU, or General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit, concept. This rumored Nvidia CPU would completely go against that grain.
While Nvidia may not be able to snag a license from Intel, there may be another option. If Nvidia collaborated with a company that already possesses an x86 license, VIA for example, you may see an Nvidia-branded CPU yet.
Source: Tomshardware.com
Last week, the California-based GPU maker was rumored to be pushed out of the console graphics market by none other than Intel. This week, it seems as if the tables have turned, with Nvidia reportedly working on an x86 CPU.
According to The Inquirer, the GPU powerhouse is trying to produce an x86 chip. While the legal implications may stop anything concrete dead in its tracks, that probably wouldn't stop Nvidia from producing the hardware and worrying about a financial settlement later. When Nvidia started collaborating with Stexar back in 2006, many were predicting that some sort of CPU would be the result. It's been over two years, so the market may finally be privy to the fruit of Nvidia's labors.
"Word reached us a bit ago that Nvidia is definitely working on an x86 chip and the firm is heavily recruiting x86 engineers all over Silicon Valley," says The Inquirer.
While producing an x86 CPU would certainly put a wrench in the works for Intel and AMD, the move seems to be off message for Nvidia. For the past year or so, Nvidia has been pushing its GPGPU, or General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit, concept. This rumored Nvidia CPU would completely go against that grain.
While Nvidia may not be able to snag a license from Intel, there may be another option. If Nvidia collaborated with a company that already possesses an x86 license, VIA for example, you may see an Nvidia-branded CPU yet.
Source: Tomshardware.com
GeForce GTX260 with New PCB Design
Nvidia's 3rd-generation GeForce GTX260 features a new printed circuit board (PCB) design, set to reduce overall cost.
Expreview reports that the third-generation GTX260 design, codenamed P897/D10U-20, will feature changes that cuts down the manufacturing cost. This means changing the FBVDDQ power solution from 2-phase to single phase, reducing the overall PCD layer count from 10 to 8, and lowering the PCB board height down 1.5cm while keeping the original length. The MOSFET package will see an alteration as well, changing from LFPAK to DPAK. It's also likely that the BIOS ROM will diminish from 1M to 512K, and the DVI connector will receive modifications in order to cut costs even further.
In comparison to the P654 design, the newer P897 GeForce GTX260 is expected to save Nividia around $10 to $15, although the design could be mistaken for the GeForce 9800GTX+ (due to the GT200 and NVIO2 chip). Originally, the P654 layout reduced the number of PCB layers from 14 to 10 in comparison to the previous design, the P651; the design also removed the expensive Volterra chip to reduce cost. All versions use 55nm processing technology.
According to Expreview, the new product will be available in the third week of this month. Currently Chinese manufacturer Colorful is utilizing the P897 layout for the iGame Series' GeForce GTX260 card; the design replaces the TV-out connector with HDMI and also adds a set of overclocking jumpers. Modifications to PCB design not only reduce cost on behalf of the manufacturer, but the discount also trickles down to the consumer.
Source: Tomshardware.com
Expreview reports that the third-generation GTX260 design, codenamed P897/D10U-20, will feature changes that cuts down the manufacturing cost. This means changing the FBVDDQ power solution from 2-phase to single phase, reducing the overall PCD layer count from 10 to 8, and lowering the PCB board height down 1.5cm while keeping the original length. The MOSFET package will see an alteration as well, changing from LFPAK to DPAK. It's also likely that the BIOS ROM will diminish from 1M to 512K, and the DVI connector will receive modifications in order to cut costs even further.
In comparison to the P654 design, the newer P897 GeForce GTX260 is expected to save Nividia around $10 to $15, although the design could be mistaken for the GeForce 9800GTX+ (due to the GT200 and NVIO2 chip). Originally, the P654 layout reduced the number of PCB layers from 14 to 10 in comparison to the previous design, the P651; the design also removed the expensive Volterra chip to reduce cost. All versions use 55nm processing technology.
According to Expreview, the new product will be available in the third week of this month. Currently Chinese manufacturer Colorful is utilizing the P897 layout for the iGame Series' GeForce GTX260 card; the design replaces the TV-out connector with HDMI and also adds a set of overclocking jumpers. Modifications to PCB design not only reduce cost on behalf of the manufacturer, but the discount also trickles down to the consumer.
Source: Tomshardware.com
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