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MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 43

by Tom Allen

LG‘s V10 smartphone (LG Goes Dual-Screen, Dual-Camera for Content Creation) can now be pre-ordered in the USA, through AT&T. The phone will go on sale on the 6th November. A mid-range version of Microsoft‘s …

Tags:AT&T| GPUs| LG Electronics (LGE)| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Nvidia| Smartphones| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 43

Acer’s Curved Monitor Can be Overclocked

by Tom Allen

In June, Nvidia announced new monitors from Acer and Asus that would carry its G-Sync technology (Big Plans for Nvidia’s G-Sync This Year). An Acer model, the X34, confused people because it hadn’t been …

Tags:Acer| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Nvidia| Variable Frame Rate (VRR)| Vol 22 - Issue 41

ITC Rules in Samsung’s Favour

by Tom Allen

In September 2014, Nvidia filed a complaint against Samsung and Qualcomm at the USA’s International Trade Commission (ITC). Nvidia accused Samsung of infringing on three patents, and wanted to block sales of Samsung’s Qualcomm-powered …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| Patents| Qualcomm| Samsung| Vol 22 - Issue 41

Nvidia Spreads Shield Over Europe

by Tom Allen

Nvidia has launched its Shield STB in the UK, France, Germany and the Nordics. It is an Android TV media player (with UltraHD support), with Nvidia’s game streaming service, Geforce Now. It costs €160 …

Tags:France| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Nordics| Nvidia| STBs| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 39

Workstations Recover in Q2

by Tom Allen

Expectations were mixed for the Q2’15 workstation market, following a ‘surprisingly painful’ first quarter, said Jon Peddie Research (JPR). Stakeholders were seeking reassurance that the market was not following the downward trend of the …

Tags:AMD| Dell| HP Inc| Jon Peddie Research (JPR)| Large Display Monitor| Lenovo| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| Vol 22 - Issue 35| Workstations

V-Nova Ports Perseus to Nvidia

by Tom Allen

The Perseus codec from V-Nova (V-Nova’s Perseus Lowers UltraHD Bandwidth Requirements) has been ported to run on Nvidia GPUs. GPU-enabled Perseus technology is now available to V-Nova customers. The parallel approach to signal processing …

Tags:Codecs| GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| Vol 22 - Issue 34

Nvidia ‘Fills in Gaps’ in TV Industry

by Steve Sechrist

We found a display milestone in the Nvidia booth, where the chip company is first to support 4k resolution content at 60fps in its new Shield Android TV Box (and offering so much more …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| Siggraph 2015| STBs| Streaming Video| Vol 22 - Issue 33

Nvidia Result 11/08/2015

by Helen Vince

Nvidia Corporation posted a second quarter net profit of $26 million, down 79% from $128 million in Q2 of last year, on turnover which was flat year on year at $1.1 billion. Net profit …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Nvidia| Vol 22 - Issue 32

Nvidia Shield Recalled

by Bob Raikes

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a recall for the Nvidia Shield 8″ tablet. WASHINGTON, July 31, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Recalls/2015/NVIDIA-Recalls-Tablet-Computers/ The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is an independent federal agency …

Tags:Batteries| Health and Safety| Nvidia| tablets| warranty

Nvidia Shield Poses Fire Hazard

by Tom Allen

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a recall for the 8″ Nvidia Shield tablet. The battery in these products (model numbers P1761, P1761W and P1761WX) has been found to occasionally overheat, posing …

Tags:Batteries| Health and Safety| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| tablets| warranty

GTX 750 Replacements Under Development

by Tom Allen

Two low-cost graphics cards, the Geforce GTX 950 and 950 Ti, are being readied by Nvidia. They will use the Maxwell architecture and are said to have comparable performance to the GTX 960. Both …

Tags:GPUs| Graphics Cards| Large Display Monitor| Nvidia| Vol 22 - Issue 27