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Nvidia is a renowned brand when it comes to PC GPUs but for the past few years, the company started emphasizing on the burgeoning mobile devices market. Needless to say, they’ve tasted decent success there too with Tegra chips and it seems this year will be better with the launch of the world’s first quad-core [...]

  Nvidia had promised to launch the Kal-el platform by end of this year and well, here it is, toting the official Tegra 3 moniker. Tegra 3 features a quad-core CPU and 12-core GeForce GPU that touts to bring PC-like performance in mobile devices and also improve battery life. In perspective, Tegra 3 provides 3x [...]

  Looks like Nvidia is making Tegra 3 ready for primetime. An official looking Tegra 3 promo has made it out on the web. Tegra 3 code-named Kal-El is Nvidia’s next-generation mobile SoC that boasts a powerful quad-core processor. The video basically highlights Kal-El’s abilities like better multi-tasking, improved graphics, improved handling of Adobe Flash [...]

  Nvidia has announced its renowned GeForce LAN Gaming Tournament for Indian gamers. Professional and part-time gamers can enroll in the tournament for free to battle it out to be the “Ultimate Gamer.” Unlike the international GeForce LAN tournament that allows gamers to bring their own PC (BYOC), the India-specific GeForce LAN is equipped with [...]

  Nvidia has been touting Kal-el System-on-Chip to have four CPU cores however, an official whitepaper from Nvidia confirms that Kal-el has a fifth core that was not disclosed previously. The fifth core known as the Companion core works the same way as other processing cores but the only difference is that it is meant [...]

  Nvidia has introduced a new tool for broadcasters and professionals to deliver better quality and improved on-air graphics with very low latency. The GPUDirect for Video announced at IBC last week takes allows industry-standard video I/O devices to communicate with the Quadro or Tesla GPUs at ultra-low latency. The result is that the GPUDirect [...]

  Nvidia has launched their Tegra Zone website to complement its Tegra Zone Android app. The website now makes it easier for consumers to learn about the platform, Tegra-optimized games and enable Tegra device owners to purchase content. The site in short, brings all the Tegra Zone app goodness on the computer, plus allowing to [...]

  Asus’ next-generation Transformer 2 will apparently be the first device to be powered Nvidia’s Kal El aka Tegra 3 platform. This piece of news comes via Fudzilla’s “multiple sources” who say Transformer’s successor will be the first one to sport the quad-core SoC before a barrage of devices come in 2012. Kal El or [...]

  Nvidia has announced new 3D glasses that promises to give the 3D goodness at an affordable price. The wired 3D Vision glasses are priced at just $99 and features the same active shutter technology, making it compatible with more than 65 different 3D Vision-enabled products and more than 525 3D games, movies etc. The [...]

  Nvidia today announced that its Tegra 2 System-on-chip has received the Best Choice Award from Taipei Computer Association who handles the Computex expo. The Tegra 2 chip was selected amongst 400 products from electronics product category and marks a third straight year for winning this award. Nvidia had previously won the Best Choice award [...]

  Nvidia has expanded its GeForce range in the Indian market with the GTX 560 GPU, which is based on Nvidia’s Fermi architecture. The graphics card supports number of technologies like Nvidia PhysX, 3D Vision, SLI and Surround and sits well along its GTX 560 Ti sibling. Priced from Rs.12,399, the GPU comes with a [...]

  Nvidia just acknowledged the acquisition of England-based Icera who specializes in baseband and RF processors for smartphones and tablets. Nvidia already makes Tegra application processors but with the new acquisition, which cost Nvidia $367 million in cash, will help the company to double its revenue opportunity and also enable its OEM customers reduce the [...]

  Professionals looking for a proper graphics solution to deal with CAD/CAM applications can take a look at the new Nvidia Quadro 400 GPU. Priced at a modest Rs.10,140, the new professional GPU claims to be 5X faster than high-end gaming-centric graphic cards and has a 10X improvement while running CAD apps. Coming with 512MB [...]

  Nvidia has announced GeForce GTX 590 that is touted as the world’s fastest and quietest graphics card. The 11-inch GTX 590 is a dual slot card based on dual Fermi-class GPUs that packs in some serious power. The GPU is packed with 1024 Nvidia CUDA architecture cores and 3GB GDDR5 memory that helps to [...]

  Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti is now available in India that sits nicely under sub-10k price tag. Going for an exact 9,490, the GTX 550 Ti is Nvidia’s latest in the Fermi line that is designed to perform while consuming minimal power. When it comes to DirectX11, the 1GB GTX 550 Ti boasts world’s [...]