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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| 2012-05-17 | Virtualized GPU speeds cloud computing graphics NVIDIA's VGX platform handles 100 users in a single server powered by one VGX board, improving user density on a single server. |
| 2012-11-15 | Tesla K20 GPU accelerators ready for supercomputers Nvidia's Tesla K20 GPUs are said to be the firm's top flight chips to date, providing 90 per cent of the performance for the Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. |
| 2010-08-04 | System controllers for cars integrate CPU, GPU A new series of vehicle-system LSI controllers integrates a CPU core and a graphics-display controller for video capture and communications in automobiles. |
| 2005-06-01 | Supernova collapse simulated on a GPU A simulated study allows researchers to leverage the power of GPUs for improving visual-application performance. |
| 2002-11-28 | SiS launches latest generation Xabre GPU Silicon Integrated Systems' Xabre600 GPU provides complete Pro 8X8 support that allows the memory to run in sync with the graphics engine at 300MHz. |
| 2002-04-29 | SiS GPU supports AGP8X, DirectX8.1 Claimed to be the world's first GPU to support AGP8X and DirectX 8.1 functions, the Xabre400 from Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) Corp. provides a bandwidth of 2.1GHz—twice that of previous GPUs that supported the AGP4X bus. |
| 2011-11-11 | SDK update features GPU-based processing The enhanced Matrox Imaging Library 9 delivers GenICam support and improved code reading and verification. |
| 2010-05-06 | SDK boosts GPU, CPU app performance AMD has launched the ATI Stream SDK v2.1 that helps developers accelerate application performance by leveraging the CPU and GPU resources in a given system. |
| 2011-11-14 | Planned 8-way GPU geared for smartphones ARM has announced that its Mali-T658 design features image processing, augmented reality or running physics engine software for games. |
| 2006-02-07 | Nvidia's new GPU designed for AGP Nvidia announced its new Nvidia GeForce 7800 GS graphics processing unit for AGP-based PCs. |
| 2008-08-11 | Nvidia revs up GeForce GPU line Nvidia Corp. introduces three new desktop GeForce 9 Series GPUs that bring support for Nvidia PhysX technology and CUDA general-purpose parallel computing to mainstream PC computing markets. |
| 2007-03-08 | Nvidia mobile GPU based on TSMC 65nm process Nvidia is the first to see chips with embedded DRAM based on the 65nm process from Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg Co. The graphics firm used the process for its latest mobile GPU, TSMC said. |
| 2010-11-22 | Nvidia GPU to power exascale computer Nvidia is developing a thousand-core graphics chip with each core capable of handling four double precision floating-point operations per clock cycle--the equivalent of 10 teraflops on a chip. |
| 2006-05-26 | Nvidia GPU targets business notebooks Nvidia Corp. announced that the new Quadro NVS 300M graphics processing unit. |
| 2010-11-17 | Nvidia GPU supercomputing available on demand from AWS Nvidia announced that enterprises and start-ups will now be able to access the supercomputing-class performance of Nvidia Tesla GPUs through Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud offering, called Cluster GPU Instances. This new offering expands the available options for flexible, on-demand high performance computing within the Amazon Web Services cloud. |
| 2004-04-29 | Nvidia GPU designed with Synopsys platform Synopsys has announced that Nvidia's new GeForce 6800 graphics processing unit was designed with Synopsys' Galaxy Design Platform. |
| 2005-08-18 | New GPU from NVIDIA NVIDIA introduced its new NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT GPU that brings support for next-generation gaming technologies, including Shader Model 3.0, HDR lighting, and NVIDIA SLI multi-GPU technology, to lower price points. |
| 2010-12-20 | Multicore silicon GPU exceeds 1GHz Vivante announced that licensees of its GC series architecture have exceeded 1GHz in clock frequencies. The GPUs target next-gen game consoles, tablets, smartphones, automotive displays and home entertainment apps. |
| 2011-07-14 | Mobile graphics processor touts fastest GPU AMD claims its Radeon HD 6990M GPU boasts 25-percent higher performance than any other notebook GPU announced. |
| 2002-05-23 | Matrox rolls out 512-bit GPU Matrox Graphics Inc. has unveiled what it claims to be world's first 512-bit GPU that is capable of displaying over 1 billion colors to support high fidelity 2D and 3D image rendering. |
| 2006-03-29 | Kyocera selects Nvidia GPU for latest 3G mobile phone Nvidia announced that Kyocera has chosen Nvidia's GoForce 4000 handheld GPU for its new CDMA EVDO phone, the W41K. |
| 2009-02-20 | Is mindshare shifting from CPU to GPU? Intel to Nvidia? Will the world's PC consumers in the future believe Nvidia-style graphics is the true core of the PC or Intel's CPU-plus-reasonably-good-GPU vision? |
| 2008-03-19 | Intel poised to take on Nvidia, ATI in GPU arena Intel has announced that, in line with its plans to enter the high-end graphics market next year with the release of the Larrabee processor, its software development tools will take the platform above products from competitors Nvidia and AMD's ATI Technologies. |
| 2009-03-12 | Initiative to support GPU computing startups NVIDIA Corp. has launched the GPU Ventures Program, a new global initiative whose aim is to identify, support and invest in early stage companies leveraging the GPU for visual and other computing applications. |
| 2010-05-31 | Imagination licenses GPU core to Renesas, TI Imagination Technologies has signed a multi-use license agreement with Renesas Electronics and Texas Instruments for Imagination's POWERVR SGX Series5XT multi-processor core. |
| 2008-05-14 | Graphics accelerator XMC features ATI's latest GPU Quantum3D has introduced the Sentiris 5140 XMC mezzanine card, which is built using AMD's latest GPU, the ATI Radeon HD 3650. |
| 2010-12-30 | GPU touts Microsoft DirectX 11-capable architecture for high-res gaming The AMD Radeon HD 6900 series graphics cards also features multi-display technology and 3D entertainment support. |
| 2011-06-14 | GPU supercomputer simulation accelerates solar energy Researchers announced a record-breaking scientific simulation on the Tianhe-1A GPU supercomputer that furthers research in solar energy and in the semiconductor industry. |
| 2010-04-12 | GPU solution hits 750GFLOPS peak per card slot GE Intelligent Platforms offers the 6U OpenVPX NPN240 multi-processor solution featuring two Nvidia CUDA capable GT240 96-core GPUs. |
| 2010-08-04 | GPU shipments increase as notebooks keep growing Overall shipments of graphics chips increased by four percent from Q1 10 even as shipments of discrete GPUs for desktops fell 21.4 percent, reports Jon Peddie Research. |
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