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NVIDIA Unveils Next Gen CUDA GPU Architecture - Fermi
NVIDIA Corp. today introduced its next generation CUDA GPU architecture, codenamed “Fermi”. An entirely new ground-up design, the “Fermi” architecture is the foundation for the world’s first computational graphics processing units (GPUs), delivering breakthroughs in both graphics and GPU computing.
“It is completely clear that GPUs are now general purpose parallel computing processors with amazing graphics, and not just graphics chips anymore,” said Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “The Fermi architecture, the integrated tools, libraries and engines are the direct results of the insights we have gained from working with thousands of CUDA developers around the world. We will look back in the coming years and see that Fermi started the new GPU industry.”
Posted by | Wed, Sep 30, 2009 - 03:26 PM
NVIDIA's GT300 'Fermi' GPU Architecture Leaked
Theo over at Bright Side of News published some updated information on the upcoming NVIDIA GT300 GPU this morning that is well worth a look. Theo claims that with the GT300 you can expect to see configurations with 1.5 GB, 3.0 GB and 6.0 GB of GDDR5 memory!
Beside the regular NV70 and GT300 codenames [codename for the GPU], nVidia's insiders called the GPU architecture - Fermi. Enrico Fermi was an Italian physicist who is credited with the invention of nuclear reactor. That brings us to one of codenames we heard for one of the GT300 board itself - "reactor". When it comes to boards themselves, you can expect to see configurations with 1.5, 3.0 GB and 6GB of GDDR5 memory.
- 3.0 billion transistors
- 40nm TSMC
- 384-bit memory interface
- 512 shader cores [renamed into CUDA Cores]
- 32 CUDA cores per Shader Cluster
- 1MB L1 cache memory [divided into 16KB Cache - Shared Memory]
- 768KB L2 unified cache memory
- Up to 6GB GDDR5 memory
- Half Speed IEEE 754 Double Precision
Posted by | Wed, Sep 30, 2009 - 02:26 PM
Pioneer Releases 12x Blu-Ray Burner - BDR-205
Pioneer is leading the way again with the first available 12x Blu-Ray burner with their BDR-205 model. Savvy techies will know that not all media brands will support these speeds, especially with no other drives currently capable of these speeds.
Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. today announces its new BDR-205 Blu-ray Disc® Computer Writer, the industry’s first and fastest model to feature up to 12x write speed for single and dual-layer Blu-ray Disc (BD) media. Ideal for authoring providers and system builders, the Pioneer BD/DVD/CD Writer provides accurate, rapid performance for demanding professional applications. “The BDR-205 drive represents our ongoing efforts to combine Pioneer’s engineering expertise with advanced technologies, and our next generation Blu-ray Disc writer is a great example of our no-compromise approach to optical disc product development,” said Steve Cohn, director of optical disc sales for Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. “We are bringing to market the fastest Blu-ray Disc writer to date, and it is just one of the many ’firsts’ that have come to define Pioneer’s 30-year heritage in optical disc innovation and leadership.”
Posted by | Wed, Sep 30, 2009 - 01:06 PM
TSMC to see better-than-expected 4Q09
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is expected to see revenues for the fourth quarter remain flat or increase by low single-digits sequentially, according to market watchers. TSMC customers AMD, Broadcom and Marvell have reportedly maintained their pace of orders.TSMC has estimated third-quarter revenues to be between NT$88 billion and NT$90 billion, up 18-21% sequentially. The pure-play foundry enjoyed a sequential revenue jump of 91.7% in the second quarter.
Posted by | Wed, Sep 30, 2009 - 10:38 AM
NVIDIA's Developer Relations Team Issues Statement on Batman: Arkham Asylum AA Support
The crew inside of NVIDIA's Developer Relations Department released a statement dealing with the allegations AMD made about how NVIDIA interfered with anti-aliasing (AA) support for Batman: Arkham Asylum on AMD cards. Always good to see the PR departments inside AMD and NVIDIA trading blows!
A representative of AMD recently claimed that NVIDIA interfered with anti-aliasing (AA) support for Batman: Arkham Asylum on AMD cards. They also claimed that NVIDIA’s The Way It’s Meant to be Played Program prevents AMD from working with developers for those games. Both of these claims are NOT true. Batman is based on Unreal Engine 3, which does not natively support anti-aliasing. We worked closely with Eidos to add AA and QA the feature on GeForce. Nothing prevented AMD from doing the same thing. Games in The Way It’s Meant to be Played are not exclusive to NVIDIA. AMD can also contact developers and work with them. We are proud of the work we do in The Way It’s Meant to be Played. We work hard to deliver kickass, game-changing features in PC games like PhysX, AA, and 3D Vision for games like Batman. If AMD wants to deliver innovation for PC games then we encourage them to roll up their sleeves and do the same.
Posted by | Wed, Sep 30, 2009 - 10:01 AM
Google Earth animated with real-time human and vehicular traffic
Google is in the news yet again; this time for Google Earth! Students from the Georgia Institute of Technology have used motion capture data and CCTV video feeds to animate Google Earth with live feeds! It's crazy that this is possible, but cool at the same time!
Mmm, real time dynamic maps of the Earth. It seems nowadays that supervillainy just isn't as hard as it used to be. Back in the days of Hugo Drax, you had to be a filthy rich eccentric to ever get to spy on the whole world, whereas today all you need is Google Earth and some Georgia Institute of Technology students. Using motion capture data and the veritable litany of CCTV cameras people have surrounded themselves with, the team have succeeded in mapping and animating the real time movements of cars, people and clouds. A proper unveiling is coming up at a symposium next month, by which point they might have added weather patterns, birds and river motions to that list, but for now you can enjoy the video demo after the break.
Posted by | Wed, Sep 30, 2009 - 09:54 AM
Scalable Display Technologies Partners w/ Arotech’s RealTime
Scalable Display Technologies today announced that it has partnered with Realtime Technologies Inc. (RTI) to develop an integrated software solution for seamless visual displays. Under the terms of the partnership, RTI will use Scalable’s EasyBlend software to incorporate visual edge blending and color matching solutions inside RTI’s core product, SimCreator. The demo of the SimCreator looks pretty killer as you can see for yourself below.
The driving simulator system installed at WTI that was developed by RTI uses five Canon SX7 LCOS-based projectors to immerse the driver in a 240-degree horizontal visual environment. Thanks to Scalable Display’s EasyBlend, RTI’s system is able to offer a stunning, perfectly edge-blended visual display that enables the researchers to conduct realistic safety research before extending the research to test track and open road studies.
Posted by | Wed, Sep 30, 2009 - 09:50 AM
AMD Announces Open Physics Initiative
AMD and Pixelux Entertainment announced a joint development agreement that is part of the AMD effort to greatly expand the use of real-time physics with graphics through the open source Bullet Physics engine. By encouraging development of physics middleware built around OpenCL and Bullet Physics, AMD and Pixelux offer a route toward physics simulation that spans game consoles, PCs and other hardware platforms. The latest graphics technologies, like the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series of GPUs, offer incredible visual fidelity and high performance physics simulation by taking the next step in realistically animating how rendered game objects move, deform and break.
“Proprietary physics solutions divide consumers and ISVs, while stifling true innovation; our competitors even develop code that they themselves admit will not work on hardware other than theirs,” said Eric Demers, chief technology officer for graphics at AMD. “By working with Pixelux and others to enable open support of physics on OpenCL and DirectX 11 capable devices we are taking the exact opposite approach.”
Posted by | Wed, Sep 30, 2009 - 08:30 AM
GLOBALFOUNDRIES To Highlight 32nm/28nm Technology Leadership at GSA Expo
As the semiconductor industry begins its transition to the next technology node, GLOBALFOUNDRIES is on track to take its position as the foundry technology leader. On October 1 at the Global Semiconductor Alliance Emerging Opportunities Expo & Conference in Santa Clara, Calif., GLOBALFOUNDRIES will provide the latest details on its technology roadmap for the 32nm/28nm generations and its innovative “Gate First” approach to building transistors based on High-K Metal Gate (HKMG) technology.
GLOBALFOUNDRIES expects to start volume production of 32nm-SHP (Super High Performance) technology at Fab 1 in the second half of 2010. This technology will employ silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrates and utilize GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ innovative “Gate First” approach to HKMG, which maximizes power efficiency and transistor scaling while minimizing die size and design complexity when compared to the alternative “Gate Last” approach. Yield progress continues with 24Mb SRAMs in double-digit natural yields on path to 50 per cent natural yields by year-end.
Posted by | Wed, Sep 30, 2009 - 08:23 AM
September 30 News from Around the Web
GIGABYTE Radeon HD 5870 Graphics Card in CrossFire X @ TweakTown and other reviews from around the web can be found by visiting our forums!
"As our third retail HD 5870 rolled into the labs it was time to check out CrossFire X. Some may wonder what CrossFire X is. Well, it's like CrossFire, but with an X. On a serious note, though, in a single GPU setup it means we're going to be dealing with three cards today. If you're packing a dual GPU setup it tends to mean you're dealing with four GPUs which is something we intend to attack when the HD 5870 X2 shows up on our door step. Since we already know how a stock HD 5870 is going to perform, we thought it was the perfect time to take CrossFire X for a spin. Unlike our first CrossFire article, because we haven't had a look at what GIGABYTE are giving us we'll take the time to have a look at the package they’re offering before getting into the card itself."
Posted by | Wed, Sep 30, 2009 - 07:53 AM
SanDisk Introduces Memory Cards for Gaming Consoles
Today, SanDisk introduced three additions to its line of flash memory cards for gaming consoles, including a Memory Stick Micro (M2) card and gaming pack that will double the amount of storage in the soon-to-be-released Sony PSP Go. The SanDisk M2 gaming cards will be available in up to 16GB, doubling the amount of storage available for PSP go users. Capacities in 2, 4 and 8GB will be available as well.
“Many of the new portable gaming systems offer substantial downloadable content for gamers to enjoy, and our gaming memory cards give consumers the added storage capacity they need,” said Tim Sutton, product marketing manager, gaming, SanDisk. “Downloadable games for the PSP system can consume more than 700 megabytes (MB)2 of memory each, not to mention the large file sizes of movies and TV shows which boost demand for expandable storage.”
Posted by | Wed, Sep 30, 2009 - 07:43 AM
AMD's Ian McNaughton blasts NVIDIA over PC Game Issues
AMD's very own self-proclaimed bad boy Ian McNaughton took a direct swing at NVIDIA and The Way it's Meant to be Played program today in a blog post that is worth taking a look at. Ian calls out some issues with several TWIMTBP titles, which is something you don't see being done everyday. If you already own or are thinking about getting Batman: Arkham Asylum, Need for Speed: Shift or Resident Evil 5 then you might want to see what Ian is upset about.
AMD prides itself on supporting open standards and our goal is to advance PC gaming regardless whether people purchase our products. Unfortunately, not everyone shares our philosophy. Nvidia has recently sampled some newly released The Way it is Meant to be Played titles, including Batman: Arkham Asylum, to press in hopes that they would use these titles to benchmark against the HD Radeon 5870 and 5850. There are some known issues with these proprietary TWIMTBP titles.
Posted by | Tue, Sep 29, 2009 - 08:08 PM
Win a iBuyPower Gamer Paladin System with an Intel Core i7-870 CPU
Our good friends over at Intel and iBuyPower have assembled a killer Gamer Paladin system that we are more than happy to give away to one of our lucky forum members this month! This is your chance to win an Intel P55 chipset and Core i7-870 powered gaming system (aka Lynnfield) for just being an active member of Legit Reviews! We will be giving away this killer system this week, so be sure to check out the link below and make sure you enter!
This system isn't your average system either as it is packed full of high-end components like an NVIDIA GeForce GTX285 video card, 4GB of DDR3 1600MHz memory, LG Blu-Ray player and since Intel is sponsoring the contest you know it has to have an Intel 80GB SSD along inside along with another 1TB hard drive for file storage! All this goodness is packed inside the Chimera Inferno gaming case and Windows Home Premium 64-bit has been installed. Not only will this system look good, but it will also be a solid overclocker and gaming system for one lucky winner here on Legit Reviews.
Posted by | Tue, Sep 29, 2009 - 06:09 PM
Google Wave to be Released to 100,000 Beta Testers Wednesday
Google has indicated that it will be opening up their anticipated Google Wave service to approximately 100,000 beta testers tomorrow! If you haven't signed up to be a tester yet, you might want to because who knows how they will chose the testers. Good luck if you are trying to test out Google Wave!
Google Wave, a product that promises to revolutionize online communication, will go out to about 100,000 beta testers Wednesday. The Web application from Google Inc. combines elements of e-mail, chat, Wiki documents, blogs and photo-sharing sites to create a form of Internet communication called a "hosted conversation," or a "wave." Google demonstrated Wave at the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco, California, in May. The closed group of beta testers will help Google fish bugs out of the application before a public release by the end of the year, according to the Google Wave Web site.
Posted by | Tue, Sep 29, 2009 - 01:39 PM
ZOTAC Expands ION Series With High End ION ITX-F
Today, ZOTAC announced their plans to expand on its ION series mini-ITX motherboards with the new ION ITX-F-E. The new ION ITX-F-E features PCI Express x16 expansion and pairs the NVIDIA ION graphics processor with a dual-core Intel Atom 330 processor for high performance and energy efficiency.
The ZOTAC ION ITX-F series features flexible display connectivity with HDCP ready HDMI, DVI and VGA outputs for connectivity with analog or digital monitors and high-definition televisions for the best picture clarity with any display the user may choose. Onboard mini PCI Express 802.11n WiFi provides lightning-fast network connectivity free of wires while onboard Gigabit Ethernet provides network transfers with speeds up to 1000Mbps for those that prefer to have wires.
Posted by | Tue, Sep 29, 2009 - 10:28 AM
Sony Pictures Imageworks Creates Tornado Out Of Spaghetti Sauce With The Help Of NVIDIA Technology
“For visual effects artists to be most effective using computer animation tools, it’s all about the speed and especially the user experience,” explained Rob Bredow, CTO, Sony Pictures Imageworks. “When an artist can do 10 times as many iterations of an effect in the same amount of time, the quality of the end product will be that much better.”
“Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs” is #1 Box Office Hit, Visual Effects Production Powered by NVIDIA Quadro Processors"
Posted by | Tue, Sep 29, 2009 - 09:45 AM
September 29 News from Around the Web
NZXT Beta EVO Case Review @ Hi Tech Legion and other reviews from around the web can be found by visiting our forums!
"Computer cases seem to quickly be heading in the direction of this philosophy, with more and more wild, interesting looking case designs. The question is, however, are these exotic cases meeting all of the functional needs that we have for the computer case, especially when considering the higher costs of cases these days. When evaluating the usefulness of a case, performance and features need to take precedent or at least be on even playing field with the appearance, unless of course the point of the system is to be radically unique, but then it wouldn't be mainstream. NZXT has always been able to develop good case designs while keeping the look interesting, but one of their less expensive creations really has caught a lot of people's eyes, based on price and what it has to offer. The NZXT Beta EVO is a well constructed case that offers exceptional cooling features for the money. The NZXT Beta EVO takes the functionality of the case back into the forefront, with tool less drive installations and excellent cable management access holes. The interior space is quite roomy for the price point and exterior size, even being capable of holding two full size, dual expansion slot graphics cards."
Posted by | Tue, Sep 29, 2009 - 07:56 AM
NVIDIA DX11 Card GT300 - Q4 '09?
With ATI's release of the 5870 DX11 cards, everyone is looking to NVIDIA for their answer. Looks like it could be coming in Q4 with the GT300. Will it beat out the best of ATI?
November is looking to be an exciting month as we hear rumblings of a launch of AMD's Radeon HD 5850 X2 and HD 5870 X2. In fact almost all of the news lately has been about AMD's new DX11 40nm GPU. The question on everyone's minds was the same - Where is NVIDIA? We are happy to report that we were correct in our earlier predictions that the GT300 is farther along than many other sites were predicting. We hear that NVIDIA has made an official statement on the state of the GT300 yields. It seems that the GT300 has been taped out long ago and that yields are fine. This statement comes from a senior product manager for the GT300, but we also have this from our own sources [who have been saying this all along].
Posted by | Tue, Sep 29, 2009 - 07:44 AM
Panasonic To Offer Win 7 Laptops
Two new models - N8 and S8, based by Core 2 Duo P8700 processors and a reported (and incredible) 16 hours of battery life to hit retailers on October 22nd.
...both machines will come with 12.1-inch WXGA LCD screens, 250GB HDDs, up to 4GB of RAM, WiMAX, WiFi, HDMI and SDHC connectivity. They also share a stonking claim of 16 hours of battery life, and the one feature that distinguishes between them is the internal DVD burner on the S8. All that goodness will be out come October 22, with expected pricing around ¥200,000 (about $2,230) for the N series.
Posted by | Tue, Sep 29, 2009 - 07:36 AM
Intel to offer dual-core CPUs for ultra-thin notebook platform
Intel plans to upgrade its ultra-thin notebook platform to include dual-core CPUs in the fourth quarter of 2009, according to sources at notebook makers. For netbooks, Intel plans to launch its Pine Trail-M platform in December, although related products will not start selling in retail channels until the first quarter of 2010.
Intel will replace the Core 2 Solo SU3000 with the Core 2 Duo SU7000; Pentium SU2000 with Core 2 Duo SU4000 and single-core Celeron with dual-core Celeron SU3000, however the single-core Celeron 700 will be kept for the entry-level market, as well as the SU9000 for the high-end market, the sources noted.
Posted by | Tue, Sep 29, 2009 - 06:12 AM
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