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Cloud-Paging Start-Up Numecent Emerges From Stealth, Spins Off Gaming Unit Approxy (Video)

Arik Hesseldahl in News on March 5 at 8:59 am PT

Numecent takes the idea of cloud computing to a logical, and incredibly cool, extreme.

Intel’s Plan to Remain the Supercomputing King

Arik Hesseldahl in News on November 15, 2011 at 3:11 pm PT

Today the company is disclosing some new advances that will help it maintain its role as the chip supplier of choice to the supercomputing elite.

Fujitsu Supercomputer Remains World Champ, but IBM and Intel Are the Real Computing Kings

Arik Hesseldahl in News on November 14, 2011 at 5:58 am PT

The latest edition of the semiannual Top 500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers is out. Strangely, there’s no movement among the Top 10, and yet there’s still plenty to talk about.

Nvidia Chips to Power World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on October 11, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

The U.S. government announces plans to build the next great supercomputer. What’s new is that its main computing element will come from Nvidia.

Oak Ridge National Lab's "Jaguar" computer

Ruling Whittles Down HTC’s Patent Case Against Apple

John Paczkowski in News on July 27, 2011 at 11:49 am PT

If HTC thought its acquisition of S3 would be a handy club with which to beat down Apple’s patent infringement attacks, it best think again.

The Secret to Some of Lucasfilm's Magic: Nvidia's GPU Chips

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on March 30, 2011 at 4:45 pm PT

Asked to create a “tornado of fire” for a Harry Potter movie a few years ago, digital artists at Lucasfilm’s Industrial Light and Magic found the techniques they were using not up to the task. Then they discovered graphics chips, and things got very interesting.

Aiming to Power Ever More Complex Graphics, Nvidia Plans Quad-Core Mobile Chip This Year

Ina Fried in Mobile on February 15, 2011 at 4:00 pm PT

Not content to rest on its dual-core laurels, Nvidia said it will have a chip out later this year that combines four processing cores and 12-graphics chip cores to power, among other things, video with far better than HD resolution.

Intel Will Pay Nvidia $1.5 Billion to "Maintain Patent Peace"

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 10, 2011 at 1:36 pm PT

A cross-licensing agreement brings to an end what could have been an ugly and expensive trial.

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Amazon Adds Some Lightning to Its Cloud

Voices in News on November 15, 2010 at 9:02 am PT

Jealous of those research facilities with access to high-performance computing via clusters that tap the particular strengths of graphics processing units? No need–Amazon is ready to rent you that kind of muscle by the hour with the addition of a Cluster GPU Instance to its cloud-computing offerings. Each cluster includes a pair of Nvidia Tesla M2050 “Fermi” GPUs and a pair of quad-core Intel processors, and can crank through a trillion floating-point operations per second. “I like to think of it as a nuclear-powered bulldozer that’s about 1000 feet wide that you can use for just $2.10 per hour!” said Jeff Barr of Amazon Web Services in a blog post.

Apple Updates Mac Mini With HDMI, Mini DisplayPort

John Paczkowski in News on June 15, 2010 at 6:05 am PT

Looks like the iPhone 4 wasn’t the only new piece of hardware to go on sale in the Apple Store early this morning (in black only!). Joining it was a completely redesigned Mac mini. Just 1.4-inches in height, the latest iteration of the diminutive machine is smaller than its two-inch-tall predecessor and quite a bit more powerful.

Cloud-Paging Start-Up Numecent Emerges From Stealth, Spins Off Gaming Unit Approxy (Video)

Intel’s Plan to Remain the Supercomputing King

Fujitsu Supercomputer Remains World Champ, but IBM and Intel Are the Real Computing Kings

Nvidia Chips to Power World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer

Ruling Whittles Down HTC’s Patent Case Against Apple

The Secret to Some of Lucasfilm's Magic: Nvidia's GPU Chips

Aiming to Power Ever More Complex Graphics, Nvidia Plans Quad-Core Mobile Chip This Year

Intel Will Pay Nvidia $1.5 Billion to "Maintain Patent Peace"

Amazon Adds Some Lightning to Its Cloud

Apple Updates Mac Mini With HDMI, Mini DisplayPort

Nvidia CEO Not Above Celebrating Intel’s Misfortune [Memo]

FTC Sues Intel (Plus Full Text of Complaint)

Almost Famous: Elemental Technologies' Sam Blackman

AMD Gets at Least Brief Bragging Rights for Graphics Chip

Rumor Site Announces iPhone 4D; the "D" Stands for Disappointment

Rumor Site Announces iPhone 4D; the “D” Stands for Disappointment

Hope You’re Enjoying Your Little Moment in the Sun, Palm

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