NVIDIA has denied rumors that have appeared recently that manufacturers have decided to postpone the tablet release decisions based on Tegra chipset 2. In particular, reported that the first such tablet will go on the market only in late August, although working prototypes were shown in January. The reason for this called some "serious problems" associated with stability.

NVIDIA urged not to believe word of mouth, and said that everything goes according to plan. However, when exactly did we see the first pads on Tegra 2 (and, judging by the January CES , they have simply crazy characteristics), the company did not say.

Via TechRadar

In Epic and NVIDIA reported that Unreal Engine 3 now supports NVIDIA 3D Vision.

"Licensees most successful in the world game engine will be able to use all the benefits of integrated technology 3D Vision, – says the official statement from NVIDIA. – … Popular development tool Unreal Development Kit (UDK) – free version of the Unreal Engine 3 – will also receive support to 3D Vision ».

At NVIDIA, not without pride, point out that the Unreal Engine 3 were written by the leaders of the gaming market, such as Gears of War (1 and 2), Shadow Complex, BioShock 2, Mass Effect (1 and 2), Borderland, Batman: Arkham Asylum.

In NVIDIA believed that the future of entertainment industry lies precisely in three-dimensional technology. Recently spokesman Bryan Del Rizzo (Bryan Del Rizzo) explained that after the movie "Avatar" These technologies have a powerful impetus.

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News is not so fresh, but still interesting: a new multimedia platform for all Audi models in 2010 will work with graphics processors from NVIDIA.

"Consumers of luxury cars are increasingly need a modern and convenient navigation system, – said Johan de Nisshen (Joan de Nysschen), president of the American Mission Audi. – In order to keep pace with rapidly changing technology, we need to find a reliable supplier of the best technological solutions. "

In the search for a provider Audi immediately went to Silicon Valley, where its services to the legendary automotive brands offered by NVIDIA. Thus, "green" assumed the technical equipment of electronics at once a number of models.

NVIDIA chips should be the basis for a new navigation platform, which will work with the 3G service and Google Earth.

In addition, the model Audi 2012-2013 gg. get the latest SoC-chipsets Tegra.

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Nvidia will provide the following series of graphics cards – GTX 470 and GTX 480 – PAX East at the exhibition on March 26. The new cards, according to Nvidia, will implement all the capabilities of DirectX 11 at full capacity.

Based on the chipset GF100, graphics cards, according to Nvidia, have been created from scratch, so that they can most effectively work with the technology of parallel computing, embedded in DirectX 11.

Both cards will be equipped with 512 stream processors, technologies Parallel DataCache, Nvidia GigaThread and support of EEC. In general, each card will be on 3 billion transistors. GTX 470 and GTX 480 will receive 1 and 2 GB of GDDR5 memory, respectively.

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Resource DigiTimes citing its sources reported that the supply of NVIDIA Tegra processors are expected to grow from 100 thousand in 2009 to 2,5-3 million in 2012. This is partly due to the fact that the new processor is fully compatible with electronics, cars, Audi.

Tegra bought many automotive companies, including Audi, Volkswagen, Bentley, Lamborghini, Seat and Skoda. According to the forecast, in 2012, car companies should get 1.5 million processors, which will be 50-60% of the total supply of Tegra. Others 1-1,5 million will be installed on smartphones, media players and other mobile devices.

Experts predict that in 2010 the supply of processors Tegra should reach 500 thousand units.

Comments from NVIDIA itself on this subject yet.

Via DigiTimes

NVIDIA introduced the second generation Tegra processor for mobile devices. General Director Jen-Hsun Huang (Jen-Hsun Huang) did not hesitate even to say that the Tegra 2 will revolutionize the market tablets.

"2010 will go down in history as the tablet revolution – he said. – Our new Tegra processor is bringing the Tablet PC to a desktop, while energy consumption remained at the level of the phone … The Tegra built 8 independent processors plus dual-core Cortex A9. Although the performance of the system is 10 times higher than the average cell phone, power consumption is 20 times lower than a desktop PC. A single charge can be 140 hours of music or 16 hours of watch.

Chef NVIDIA announced that Tegra 2 will launch a new type of mobile devices without heatsinks and fans. "Just turn on the computer, and it works – he said. – Tegra – the only missing link that allows full work on the Internet, watch videos and play games on portable devices.

During the presentation, the head of NVIDIA Tegra hooked plate on to a large television and sent him 10-megabaytovy video in 1080p without any delay.

Tim Sweeney (Tim Sweeney) from Epic Games Unreal 3 engine, introduced for the new Tegra. "Today, the game can be written simultaneously for a wide range of devices – he commented. – It is clear that mobile devices and desktop computers are developed side by side. I think in ten years mobile games reached full cinematic quality.

Via TG Daily

In the NVIDIA reports that the new generation of chips Ion, who will receive the name of Ion 2 will be compatible with the new platform Intel Pine Trail, and the sale of it will appear in the first quarter of 2010. This is great news, because the same Eee Pc 1005PE at Pine Trail slightly better performance than the old chip Diamondville. At least, show high-definition video he does not work.

Ion 2 in this regard will be a major step forward. Engadget managed to find out from NVIDIA, that it solved a number of problems associated with the battery, and the performance is enough to see the full HD-video and advanced three-dimensional games. First netbooks on Ion 2 will be demonstrated at the January Consumer Electronics Show, CES 2010.

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According to the Chinese newspaper Commercial Times, a company Lenovo is planning to soon release the 11.6-and 12.1-inch notebooks, which will be used by Intel Atom processors and graphics platform Nvidia Ion. The beginning of the release is scheduled for the second quarter of this year, for which its production capacity will provide Wistron. No kommetariev nor from Lenovo, or from Nvidia have been reported.

In addition, Lenovo, reportedly at the moment is also considering the possibility of producing 13-inch laptop models on the platform of Ion and 12-inch notebook on the platform from VIA.

One of the leaders of NVIDIA, namely – Chern-Hsun Huang (Jen-Hsun Huang), president and CEO of, said the media that he was in this year NVIDIA will release a platform Ion (Ion 2), which will support the Nano processor from VIA Technologies. The platform is already in development, Huang stressed.

Two companies – VIA and NVIDIA – to discuss cooperation since the beginning of 2008, as another leader otmteil NVIDIA, Drew Henry (Drew Henry), recently reported on joint work with VIA Technologies to develop an inexpensive platform for the PC. Henry stressed that the first PCs based on the Ion and the processor Intel Atom nettop will cost $ 299, which will be released until June of this year. A chipset Nano / GeForce 9400 NVIDIA and VIA company demonstrated last year at Computex 2008.

After long negotiations, processor giant Intel still lodged in the well-known manufacturer of NVIDIA graphics chips to the court.

The accusation is that the «NVIDIA does not have the right to make chips that are compatible with any processor Intel, in which the integrated memory controller». These processors include the latest generation of Nehalem.

Meanwhile, the position of NVIDIA is that Intel simply be looking for any ways to protect the already difficult to negotiate under the present conditions of business for the production of the central processor.

Well, let's see what will cause Intel vs. NVIDIA in the future.