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Nvidia Tegra in the Zune HD?

June 4, 2009July 31, 2009 Doug Groves Nvidia, tegra, Zune2 Comments

The news finally broke last week about Microsoft’s upgrade to the Zune line, with the Zune HD. The device as a number of interesting specs, including a 480×272 multitouch OLED screen for excellent contrast and colour, and will output HD video with an HDMI dock, as well as a web browser. Think of the Zune HD as Microsoft’s response to the iPod Touch. What’s even more interesting is that from most reports (and the sometimes dependable wikipedia) the onboard processor is probably the Nvidia Tegra, a mobile graphics powerhouse which…

Nvidia ION Platform Windows Certified – See It On Video

February 11, 2009April 17, 2009 Doug Groves HTPC, netbook, Nvidia, SSF9 Comments

Reference design image from trustedreviews.com Nvidia’s small form factor (SFF) computing platform has received Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) certification for its drivers. What makes this noteworthy is the new platform is both tiny, as illustrated above, and dirt cheap (starting at about $300 US when shipping) and a not insignificant amount of horsepower under the hood. This looks like a break out platform for the growing netbook/nettop device segment, as it provides significantly more graphics power than the current crop of Intel graphic chips ubiquitous to the low-end market….

rgb Filter Episode 004 – Ryanitis – Show Notes

July 9, 2008July 25, 2009 Doug Groves Nvidia, Opera Mobile, review, Wanted4 Comments

Episode 004 of rgb Filter is in the can, and available at your friendly neighbourhood series of tubes. In this show, Ryan joins us as a brand new co-host. We also talk Canadian smartphone data rate updates, and the announcement of Opera Mobile 9.5 beta coming July 15th. http://my.opera.com/operamobile/blog/2008/07/07/leave-no-platform-behind ATI’s new cards force NVidia to lower prices, while Nvida announces the availability of it’s new CUDA SDK, allowing programmers to use the power of GPUs for non-graphics purposes. Xandros buys Linspire – is it a bid to keep their EEE…

NVIDIA: GTX 280 News, Pics. Plus: Gelato GPU Render Software Freely Available

June 6, 2008July 25, 2009 Doug Groves Nvidia0 comment

It seems every day, more information about NVIDIA’s GTX 200 series cards is coming out. And pics… The cards will be manufactured using a 65 nm process, with a die size of 576 mm2, which is almost double the current G92 series (9800GTX et al), which have a die size of 330 mm2. The GeForce GTX 280 will have a core clock of 600MHz, and the 1GB of GDDR memory will be running at 0.8ns, on a 512-bit memory bus. It’s no small potatoes, either as it’s a full-size 10.5″…