NVIDIA nTeresting News Bits

Nvidia sends us a weekly news round up of what they’ve got going on. There’s usually not a lot of interesting stuff but this one had a couple things I thought you might like to read on a Saturday. Sometimes you have to cut through their marketing hype to get to the real information. They are big on pumping their own crank and sling mud so openly that they should be ashamed of themselves due to its borderline lack of professionalism at times.

Xoom is Awesome

Hey, that is what PC World said.  That got their hands on one.

“Xoom + Android 3.0 look set to be a winning combination, one that makes me actually look forward to using an Android tablet.”

The award-winning Motorola Xoom tablet is a powered by NVIDIA Tegra 2, which enables never-before-seen experiences on a tablet.  2011 is the year of the Android tablet.

Denver Discussions

At CES this year, we hinted at Project Denver, our effort to build high-performance ARM CPU cores.  Michael Rayfield, general manager of the mobile business unit at NVIDIA gives more details in this interview.

“We are collaborating with ARM on their next generation architecture. We have an architecture license and our objective is to build an extremely high performance CPU (central processing unit), and put it with our GPU (graphics processing unit). We will have a solution that basically goes from personal computers up through supercomputers.”

Denver will enable us to integrate the serial processing power of ARM CPUs with the parallel processing power of GPUs in a highly energy efficient processor that supports future products ranging from personal computers and servers to workstations and supercomputers.

Quadro Makes it Golden

The HP EliteBook 8740w mobile workstation has a Quadro 5000M in it.  By integrating high-performance computing with advanced visualization, Quadro 5000M transforms modern workflows.

Quadro 5000M professional graphics solutions are built on the innovative NVIDIA Fermi architecture and deliver up to 4x faster performance than the previous generation across a broad range of design, animation and video applications. Featuring a new Scalable Geometry Engine technology, Quadro 5000M can process up to an amazing 950 million triangles per second.