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  Nvidia has been touting its Tegra-based tablets since the beginning of the year but we’re yet to see a real competitor that will take on the likes of iPad or Galaxy Tab. However, at the earnings call today, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang confirmed that things are going to change soon and are working hard [...]

  Nvidia has announced a new graphics card that claims to be the fastest DirectX 11 GPU. Based on Nvidia’s Fermi architecture, the GeForce GTX 580 has been “reengineered from the transistor-level up” that gives increased performance with minimal power consumption. The GeForce GTX 580 features 512-cores and 16 PolyMorph engines for excellent tessellation, has [...]

  LG just confirmed that they’ll be launching an Android-based tablet in first quarter of next year. The tablet will be known as the LG Pad and will feature an 8.9-inch display, Android Honeycomb OS and powered by Nvidia’s Tegra 2 dual-core processor. Other tablets like iPad and Galaxy Tab feature a 9.7-inch and 7-inch [...]

  China’s Tianhe-1A created by the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) has been crowned as the world’s fastest Supercomputer. The fully operational supercomputer was revealed at the HPC 2010 China and runs at a record 2.507 petaflops, measured by LINPACK benchmark. Tianhe-1A has managed to achieve this extraordinary feat by integrating a whopping 7,168 [...]

  Nvidia has added GeForce GT 430 to its Fermi line of GPUs. The GeForce GT 430 is based on Nvidia’s 40nm GPU and is touted to be designed for today’s media PCs, enabling exceptional HD video and audio playback. When it comes to gaming, GT 430 is 1.5 times better than previous generation products [...]

  Lenovo today announced that its ThinkPad line of laptops will reach a major milestone this month. Lenovo says ThinkPad notebooks that started selling 18 years ago will cross sales of 60m unit this month, which is equivalent to about 14 laptops sold every minute. To commemorate this landmark, Lenovo has introduced Nvidia’s Optimus technology [...]

  While we’re yet to see Tegra 2-equipped devices make an impact in the market, Nvidia’s CEO has spilled some meaty info on its successors. At the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference, CEO Jen-Hsun Huang confirmed that they’re done with the development of Tegra 3 SoC and Tegra 4 is on the way. What’s more is [...]

  Nvidia today announced GeForce 400M series of graphics cards for notebooks that feature Nvidia’s Optimus and 3D Vision technology. A total of 7 GPUs have been announced – GeForce GTX 470M and GTX 460M for enthusiasts and GeForce GT 445M, GT 435M, GT 425M, GT 420M and GT 415M for performance seeking users. The [...]

  UPDATE: The Indian prices for the GTX 460 are: 768MB – Rs. 13,129; 1GB – Rs. 15,049. Nvidia has unveiled a new GeForce GPU aimed at gamers with a limited budget. The GTX460 promises to give outstanding DirectX11 performance at an affordable price of $199. Nvidia says the GPU has been built from scratch [...]

  Russia has planned a space program to send astronauts to Mars. And while it’s not feasible to send a manned flight to Mars without understanding the impact on the astronauts, they’ve initiated Mars-500 project where the said astronauts will live in a sealed-environment for the next 520 days with the conditions similar to Mars. [...]

  UPDATE: Nvidia says everything’s on track. The last we heard about Tegra 2, the SoC and the tablets being powered by it were on schedule. However, this new report from Slashgear claims the next-generation Tegra is facing an issue that has made tablet makers to delay their devices. The information comes from Slashgear’s trusted [...]

Nvidia today unveiled its Tegra 250 or simply the Tegra 2 chip in India. Tegra 2 as we know is the next-generation Tegra mobile platform. The new chips are based on dual core ARM Cortex A9 and runs at a clock speed of 1GHz. The new Tegra boasts tremendous battery life which is possible with [...]

  Nvidia today announced a nice software solution that will enable 3D gaming and movies on the new 3D TVs. 3DTV Play harnesses power from any GeForce GPU supporting HDMI or DVI and outputs 3D content on all HDMI 1.4 compatible 3D TVs. The software helps to convert over 400 gaming titles to stereoscopic 3D [...]

  TVs are not the only electronics that are going 3D. Acer has announced two new projectors that are capable to project 3D content. Coupled with Nvidia’s 3D Vision, the projectors – H5360 and X1261 – are able to crank out realistic 3D experience by converting regular 2D images to three dimensional. Other than that, [...]

  Nvidia has officially acknowledged the next-generation ION graphics, infamously known as ION 2 at the CeBIT expo. It’s a discrete GPU that attaches via a PCI Express slot and supports Intel’s latest Pine Trail CPUs. Nvidia touts the next-gen ION is able to crank out graphics 10 times faster and has a huge 10 [...]