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Nvidia to Wind Down Icera Modem Operations

by Helen Vince

Nvidia says it will wind down its Icera modem operations in the second quarter of fiscal 2016 and that the company is open to a sale of the technology or operations. Nvidia acquired Icera …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| Vol 22 - Issue 19

Nvidia Shield STB Coming In May

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Nvidia announced the Shield STB at the recent Gamers Development Conference (GDC, as discussed by Jon Peddie in his Display Daily from March 9th, 2015. On April 9th, I had a chance to see …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Nvidia| UltraHD & 4K| Vizio| Vol 22 - Issue 16

Titan X Should be Used for UltraHD – And Only UltraHD

by Tom Allen

In a series of benchmarking tests, Hexus has determined that Nvidia’s new Titan X GPU (Titan X: A Low-Cost Answer to Titan Z) is capable of driving UltraHD content at very high frame rates …

Pascal is Nvidia’s Newest, Fastest GPU Architecture

by Tom Allen

Nvidia’s GPU technology Conference took place in the USA recently, with a new flagship GPU (see Product News) announced as well as a brand new architecture. Maxwell is Nvidia’s 10th-generation GPU architecture, and will …

Tags:GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| Vol 22 - Issue 12

Titan X: A Low-Cost Answer to Titan Z

by Tom Allen

We heard about Nvidia’s Titan X earlier this month (Nvidia Reaffirms Move to Gaming Products With Streaming Console), when it was previewed at GDC 2015. Now, the company has officially announced the card at …

Nvidia’s New Shield Android Gaming Console Expanded to Three Choices

by Jon Peddie

Nvidia has been steadily investing in and expanding the capabilities of its Shield product line, combined with the Grid server system. The original product, the Shield Portable, which is a game controller with an …

Tags:Android| Consoles| Nvidia| Vol 22 - Issue 11

Nvidia Reaffirms Move to Gaming Products With Streaming Console

by Tom Allen

Nvidia has hit back at Razer’s Forge TV (Razer Strikes Nvidia’s Shield) with its own Android-based game-streaming set-top box: the Shield Android TV Console (doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue – TA). It is …

Nvidia Continues AIB Domination, Says Jon Peddie

by Tom Allen

Graphics add-in boards (aka graphics cards), suffered a seasonally-expected fall in Q4’14, says Jon Peddie Research. Shipments were down 0.68% QoQ and 17.52% YoY; much further than desktop PCs, which were down 0.72%. The …

Nvidia gains 3% in Q4 from last quarter, Intel dropped 4%, AMD slipped 7%

by Helen Vince

Graphics processors, stand-alone discrete devices, and embedded processor-based GPUs are ubiquitous and essential components in all systems and device today from handheld mobile devices, PCs, and workstations, to TVs, servers, vehicle systems, signage, game …

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Gaming is GPU Bright Spot in Q4

by Tom Allen

Total GPU shipments were down 3.4% QoQ in Q4’14, with the most noticeable fall in notebooks (3.9%), according to Jon Peddie Research. Desktop GPU shipments were down 2.7%. Q4 is typically flat or sees …

Shield Successor Set for March Debut

by Tom Allen

Fudzilla claims that Nvidia will release a successor to the Shield tablet this year, powered by its new X1 processor (which follows 2013’s K1). Expected to be announced in March, the tablet will have …

G-Sync Confirmed for Mobile PCs

by Tom Allen

To date, Nvidia’s G-Sync technology (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 41) has only been used on desktop monitors, enabled through a proprietary module that replaces the scaler. That looks to be set to change, …