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Intel launches next-generation Ivy Bridge-EP CPU family for new round of mobile and deskside workstations
An evolving marketplace causes Intel to flip the order in which new CPU technologies are introduced. By Alex Herrera [Editor’s ...
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Microsoft talks Xbox One and Kinect at Hot Chips
Beyond the block diagrams, FLOPS comparisons, and power requirements, the new system on a chip had to master complex human ...
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HP new graphics blade server to support Nvidia GRID
The “Blade Workstation” given a broader role to play in remote graphics By Alex Herrera HP recently announced it was ...
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Graphics add-in board market down in second quarter
AMD gained market share even though the total number of boards sold went down. Jon Peddie Research (JPR) says shipments ...
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AMD, Intel graphics chip shipments up in second quarter, Nvidia down
Graphics chips outselling PCs as transition to mobile devices increases. Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm ...
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Baked in silicon ray tracing on view at Siggraph
Caustic by Imagination was showing off its new accelerator board. But Nvidia’s latest high-end GPU might be as fast. Direct-to-final-render ...
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Nvidia Quadro K6000 looks to set new marks for performance, capability and price
A whopping 12 gigabytes of on-board memory takes the K6000 where no single-board GPU has gone before. By Alex Herrera ...
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SPEC updates NX benchmark
New version texts workstations running Windows 7 using NX 8.5. SPEC’s Application Performance Characterization (SPECapc) project group has released updated ...
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Imagination Technologies CEO receives knighthood
Sir Hossein Yassaie honored for “services to technology and innovation.” Imagination Technologies Group plc. (LSE: IMG.L) Chief Executive Officer, Sir ...
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JPR: Computer graphics market will exceed $142 Billion by 2016
CG industry currently growing at a 5.3% rate. New opportunities are opening up in all aspects of the industry. New research ...
