What is a GPU?
| Graphics processing unit, or GPU, is a specialized chip that provides 2D or 3D images. Display adapters contain one or more GPUs to allow fast graphics rendering. |
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| 2012-02-01 | HSA: AMD's new holy grail HSA, said AMD's Macri, would combine scalar processing on CPU with parallel processing on the GPU, while offering high bandwidth access to memory at lower power. |
| 2012-01-18 | Mobile processor supports Windows 8 Designed specifically for tablets, TI's OMAP4470 platform claims to offer rich multimedia, end-to-end security and powerful multitasking capabilities. |
| 2011-12-29 | Intel's Medfield chip specs unleashed Based on the purported specifications, the Medfield's performance figures are set to rival, if not beat, current chip market leaders in the tablet arena. |
| 2011-12-26 | Graphics market integrates 28nm tech, PCI Express 3.0 The Radeon HD 7970 integrates new graphics core next architecture that enables new levels of gaming and computing capabilities. |
| 2011-11-21 | Workstation tech touts simultaneous computing and simulation Nvidia's Maximus technology claims to speed up work by concurrently handling graphics and compute-intensive work. |
| 2011-11-17 | Firms develop parallel programming standard The standard developed by the companies aim to help programmers take full advantage of parallel computing and the transformative power of heterogeneous CPU/GPU computing systems. |
| 2011-11-15 | GPU promises cache coherence, energy efficiency GPU promises cache coherence, energy efficiency |
| 2011-11-14 | Planned 8-way GPU geared for smartphones Planned 8-way GPU geared for smartphones |
| 2011-11-14 | Mobile device market ups Nvidia sales Refocusing on smartphone and tablet, its Tegra chips have pushed company shares to jump more than five percent. |
| 2011-11-11 | SDK update features GPU-based processing SDK update features GPU-based processing |
| 2011-11-08 | Power-efficiency, GPUs push exascale computing An analyst opines that despite advances in computer modeling, "the drive for faster, smaller, cheaper systems remains strong." |
| 2011-09-28 | GPU features multidisplay support GPU features multidisplay support |
| 2011-07-14 | Mobile graphics processor touts fastest GPU Mobile graphics processor touts fastest GPU |
| 2011-06-24 | PCIe over fiber enables next-gen data center apps Delivering external box-to-box high-performance connectivity at 64Gbps, the PCIe over fiber solution will enable a range of next-gen data center applications such as storage, servers and GPU clustering. |
| 2011-06-20 | AMD sees CPU/GPU cores as new gates AMD sees CPU/GPU cores as new gates |
| 2011-06-17 | AMD develops open-platform processor AMD has declared that the Fusion system architecture is not only based on x86 processor and GPU cores but are ISA agnostic for CPUs and GPUs. |
| 2011-06-14 | GPU supercomputer simulation accelerates solar energy GPU supercomputer simulation accelerates solar energy |
| 2011-05-04 | AMD GPU supports OpenCL, six independent displays AMD GPU supports OpenCL, six independent displays |
| 2011-04-12 | Shanghai electronics firm licenses ARM CPUs, GPUs ARM has licensed a series of CPU and GPU IP cores to Shanghai InfoTM, which will in turn use these licenses to provide 3D graphics in its line of mobile computing devices. |
| 2011-03-21 | GEMs found in more PCs IHS iSuppli has released research reporting that GEMs will have a penetration of 50 percent and 45 percent in notebook PCs and desktops, respectively. |
| 2011-02-16 | 2.5GHz/core Snapdragon claims integrates GPU, LTE 2.5GHz/core Snapdragon claims integrates GPU, LTE |
| 2011-02-02 | AMD graphics cards drive dual DVI displays The AMD FirePro 2270 and ATI FirePro V5800 DVI graphics cards can drive two DVI displays and stretch one application across two screens for an expanded field of view and enhanced productivity. |
| 2011-01-04 | Virtualization software for Sandy Bridge LucidLogix Technologies launched Virtu, software designed specifically to support Sandy Bridge processors in working with external GPUs. |
| 2010-12-30 | GPU touts Microsoft DirectX 11-capable architecture for high-res gaming GPU touts Microsoft DirectX 11-capable architecture for high-res gaming |
| 2010-12-20 | Multicore silicon GPU exceeds 1GHz Multicore silicon GPU exceeds 1GHz |
| 2010-12-15 | AMD calls for heterogeneous, GPU computing papers AMD calls for heterogeneous, GPU computing papers |
| 2010-11-22 | Nvidia GPU to power exascale computer Nvidia GPU to power exascale computer |
| 2010-11-17 | Nvidia GPU supercomputing available on demand from AWS Nvidia GPU supercomputing available on demand from AWS |
| 2010-11-16 | SoC addresses 1080p, 3D computing needs Amlogic combines ARM Cortex-A9 processor and ARM Mali-400 GPU with 1080p video |
| 2010-11-15 | ARM GPU cuts memory bandwidth use by 30 ARM GPU cuts memory bandwidth use by 30 |
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