August 12, 2010 9:54 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
Nvidia’s chief executive officer is emphatic that his company has a strategy for building processors beyond its mainstay graphics chips.
During an interview with CNET, Jen-Hsun Huang addressed a longstanding issue with the company’s chips that has become a financial bruden, as well as [...]
July 29, 2010 1:31 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
To quote the iconic 1960s drummer Buddy Miles, the graphics chip market is “going through them changes.”
As Nvidia falters, Advanced Micro Devices’ ATI graphics unit is on the rise, spurred by “radical” shifts in the market, according to Mercury Research, which tracks the [...]
July 28, 2010 10:20 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
Advanced Micro Devices passed Nvidia in graphics chip shipments in the second quarter, according to a report from a marketing research on Wednesday, adding to Nvidia’s woes.
AMD’s ATI graphics unit took 51 percent of the standalone, or “discrete,” graphics chip market compared to [...]
July 28, 2010 4:13 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
Nvidia on Wednesday slashed its revenue projection for the company’s second quarter, citing a significant sales shortfall and increasing costs.
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based graphics chip supplier said it expects revenue for its second quarter ending August 1 to be lower than the guidance [...]
June 24, 2010 1:57 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
The Motorola Droid X, which debuted this week to mostly a chorus of accolades, gets its zip from silicon provided by Texas Instruments.
Droid X uses a fast 1GHz Texas Instruments processor.
(Credit:
Motorola)
Inside the rival to the
Apple iPhone 4 is a new TI OMAP [...]
June 22, 2010 12:25 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
Nintendo has selected new graphics technology from Japan-based DMP in its highly anticipated Nintendo 3DS portable game machine.
Nintendo 3DS will use PICA200 graphics technology from Japan-based DMP.
(Credit:
Nintendo)
The Nintendo 3DS, due next year, can produce 3D effects without the need for special glasses–what DMP [...]