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NVIDIA shows off next-gen Logan mobile SoC with Kepler GPU

NVIDIA Logan Demo

NVIDIA showed off Project Logan, their next-generation, CUDA-capable mobile processor. It detailed the Tegra roadmap back in March with Logan and Parker SoCs with Kepler and Maxwell GPUs. The Keplar GPU is built on the same Kepler graphics architecture found in its latest generation of PC GPUs such as Nvidia GeForce Titan. The Logan chip would use a similar 4 + 1 arrangement similar to Tegra 3 and Tegra 4 chips and use 4 ARM A15 CPU cores and Kepler GPU with 192 CUDA cores. Continue reading “NVIDIA shows off next-gen Logan mobile SoC with Kepler GPU”

Nvidia announces GPU licensing starting with Kepler, to compete with PowerVR

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Nvidia, one of the world’s leading graphics providers, has announced that it will start licensing its GPU technology for other SoC manufacturers, starting with the Kepler series of GPUs. This move comes at a time when most smartphone manufacturers have moved away from Nvidia’s Tegra SoC, which was supposed to provide the much needed boost to the company’s flailing mobile portfolio. Nvidia Tegra, while good at games, lacked in raw performance and most importantly, battery life. Tegra chips were Nvidia’s SoC play at the mobile market, and now, like their core PC business, the Kepler based GPUs will be licensed to willing manufacturers.

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Nvidia updates Tegra roadmap with Logan and Parker, sporting Kepler and Maxwell GPUs

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Nvidia had their GPU Technology conference in San Jose, California yesterday, in which they unveiled their new product roadmap for PCs as well as their Tegra chips, their mobile SoC solutions. The Tegra roadmap after Tegra 4i will be succeeded by Logan, and Parker will succeed Logan, slated for 2014 and 2015 commercial availability respectively.

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Nvidia Project Shield Hands On

Nvidia’s move into handheld gaming is one that has been met with much skepticism. Over at the Mobile World Congress, we spent some time with non final hardware to gauge for ourselves whether Project Shield was as impressive as it sounds.

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The hardware itself is essentially a gamepad with a 5-inch 720p foldable screen attached to it. You get all the essential buttons which includes 2 joysticks, a D-pad, ABXY buttons, L/R bumpers, L/R analog triggers, Start/Back/Home/Volume buttons, and a multi-function NVIDIA/Power button.  Continue reading “Nvidia Project Shield Hands On”

Nvidia Tegra 4 slide leaks – Wayne GPU brings 72 cores

 

What you see above is a leaked slide from a Nvidia Tegra 4 aka Wayne presentation that appeared on the Chinese social networking site Sina Weibo. The slide reveals some interesting details about the new system on a chip from Nvidia, the apparent successor to the Tegra 3 mobile platform.

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Nvidia Tegra 3 – Golden Arrow Gameplay Video

Here’s a video showing the gaming possibilities of the recently announced nVidia Tegra 3 Processor. The processor comes in phones such as the LG Optimus 4X HD and the ZTE Era.

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NVIDIA introduces Tegra 3 for smartphones with 4-plus-1 quadcore processor

nVIDIA were the first to introduce a quadcore processor to the consumers with the ASUS Transformer Prime, and now it has become first to introduce them on smartphones too. At MWC 2012 which is going on right now, there are many devices which are being powered by nVIDIA’s Tegra 3 Quadcore processor including HTC’s One X, LG Optimus 4X HD, ZTE Era, K-Touch Treasure v8 and Fujitsu’s smartphone.

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Ascend D quad is powered by Huawei’s own K3V2 quadcore processor

I had thought of many unexpected things to be revealed at the MWC, but I never thought that Huawei will be bringing a super phone (Ascend D quad) running on a quadcore processor manufactured by themselves. Wow, and they are calling this process the fastest processor up to date and it might be true.

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NVIDIA Tegra 3 vSMP architecture renamed as 4-PLUS-1

NVIDIA has officially renamed their variable Symmetric Multiprocessing (vSMP) Multi-Core CPU architecture as 4-PLUS-1 quad-core architecture. They unveiled the Quad-Core Tegra 3 processor for Tablets and Mobile Phones last November. This offers better performance with their 4 cores while playing HD videos and games sand uses its companion core while performing tasks that require less power consumption like playing music, e-mail, operating in standby mode or updating background data. Continue reading “NVIDIA Tegra 3 vSMP architecture renamed as 4-PLUS-1”

Tegra 3 chip shortage affects NVIDIA

People have been talking about nVIDIA and Tegra 3 from the beginning of this year, last year they were the first chip manufacturers to bring out dual core chips and now this year they are again the first ones to bring out Quadcores. Though the vision and the chipset architecture is really great there have been some problems in nVIDIA’s camp and we have come to know that there is a shortage and it will affect nVIDA in a big way.

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