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 [...]
August 9, 2010 1:55 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will develop an exascale supercomputer, as Moore’s Law and conventional computing designs begin hitting a wall, the government agency said Friday.
DARPA’s Ubiquitous High Performance Computing (UHPC) program seeks “to create an innovative, revolutionary new generation of computing [...]
August 4, 2010 1:28 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
The Federal Trade Commission settlement with Intel on Wednesday focused on the chipmaker’s exclusionary business practices while also trying to ensure vigorous competition in the graphics chip business.
Jon Leibowitz, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, speaking Wednesday morning about the Intel ruling.
Citing [...]
August 3, 2010 7:20 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday it will announce an antitrust settlement with Intel on Wednesday morning.
FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz will detail the settlement along with Bureau of Competition Director Richard Feinstein Wednesday at 7 a.m. PDT.
The commission’s order will settle charges [...]
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 [...]
July 21, 2010 4:16 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
The Federal Trade Commission has extended by two weeks its deadline for reaching a settlement with Intel.
The FTC said Wednesday that the extension “allows the Commission more time to consider a proposed settlement.” The original order was issued on June 21 and was [...]
July 12, 2010 12:06 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
Nvidia’s new, inexpensive graphics chip for gamers is receiving plenty of praise in the review community, ratcheting up its longstanding competition with rival ATI.
The GTX 460 chip, which is used in graphics cards starting at $199, was announced Monday to a chorus of [...]
June 16, 2010 10:26 AM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
Apple has standardized on low-end but reasonably snappy Intel-Nvidia technology for the redesigned Mac Mini released Tuesday and recently rolled-out 13-inch MacBook Pro.
While the Nvidia chip in the new Mac Mini is still low-end, it's considerably faster at certain tasks than the Nvidia [...]
June 10, 2010 9:52 AM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
Motorola is looking to trump the
iPhone 4 by raising the performance bar for high-end Android smartphones, according to a report.
Sanjay K. Jha, CEO, Motorola's Mobile Devices and Home business division, says future smartphones will replace laptops.
(Credit:
Motorola)
Conceivably Tech, a technology blog, cited general [...]
June 7, 2010 10:10 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
The
iPhone 4 got a preemptive teardown on Monday courtesy of CEO Steve Jobs at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference.
Though a pre-commercial version of the iPhone 4 was notoriously taken apart by Gizmodo–and no doubt other meticulous teardowns will follow–there’s nothing like an official peek [...]