There’ve been reports circulating around the internet that NVIDIA’s next-generation flagship Fermi-G300 GPU won’t be commercially available until next year, and NVIDIA has just officially confirmed about this.
NVIDIA’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said during quarterly conference call that the company would only ramp up production of Fermi in the company’s first quarter of fiscal year 2011 [...]

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Tatvik Technologies, a provider of high performance software codecs solutions for embedded devices and handhelds, has started providing “PC Codecs Series” of H.264 video and AAC Audio encoder and Decoder for PC server.
H.264 encoder/Decoder for PC server have been highly tuned to give best performance and best quality on multi core x86 CPU. High performance [...]

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Chip manufacturer STMicroelectronics has approved the use of the ARM’s Cortex-A9 MPCore multicore processor in its next generation digital television system-on-chip (SOC) integrated circuits as well as set top boxes.
However, ARM already offers its processor technology for a wide range of equipments manufactured by the STMicroelectronics, but the new agreement entails that the company’s next-generation [...]

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By Richard Adhikari
Intel and Numonyx, a company created by Intel and STMicro, say they’ve recently made significant headway in the development of phase change memory. PCM is a type of non-volatile computer memory, which means it does not require a constant power supply to retain information. Though the new developments aren’t ready for products yet, [...]

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By Stacey Higginbotham
Microsoft and Intel this summer both snapped up companies with technology that helps software developers build programs that take advantage of multicore chips. Last July I pulled together a list of five startups to watch in the multicore programming space, and prompted by Microsoft announcing on Monday (technically the first day of autumn) [...]

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A year ago Lucid announced the Hydra 100: a physical chip that could enable hardware multi-GPU without any pesky SLI/Crossfire software, game profiles or anything like that.
At a high level what Lucid’s technology does is intercept OpenGL/DirectX commands from the CPU to the GPU and load balance them across any number of GPUs. The final [...]

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Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, today announced its new Embedded Virtualization Business Unit, representing a significant investment and commitment to virtualization in the embedded and special-purpose computing market. The business unit’s flagship product, INTEGRITY Secure Virtualization (ISV), supports hosting of Windows, Linux, VxWorks and other general purpose operating [...]

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by Ryan Shrout
Intel’s latest (and possibly greatest) desktop processor launch is upon us today and with it finally come the answer to questions we, and we assume you as well, have had for months if not years. The processor codenamed Lynnfield has been on our radar since at least the middle of 2008 and [...]

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Canon introduced an all-new prosumer-class dSLR last week called the 7D. While many Canon watchers and aficionados were expecting an upgrade of the year-old 50D, what they got was something else entirely. What they got was a weather-sealed, 18-Mpixel, APS-C dSLR that can shoot 8 frames/sec. What’s it take to shoot such large images at [...]

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Cadence Design Systems, a provider of electronic design solutions, announced that fabless semiconductor company Tilera has utilized the full range of Cadence design technologies to develop its highly scalable multicore embedded processors.
Tilera selected a full suite of design automation tools from Cadence, including Cadence Encounter technology for digital implementation, synthesis, test and equivalence checking; Incisive [...]

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Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announced it has acquired the PathScale Compiler Suite assets from SiCortex. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Cray plans to leverage some of the PathScale intellectual property to enhance Cray’s own compiler offerings over time. The company will contribute other parts of the PathScale intellectual property [...]

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By Aharon Etengoff, TG Daily
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has predicted that GPU computing will experience a rapid performance boost over the next six years. According to Huang, GPU compute is likely to increase its current capabilities by 570x, while ‘pure’ CPU performance will progress by a limited 3x.
Huang - who made his comments at the [...]

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by Mark Hachman
Advanced Micro Devices is preparing to launch its “Magny-Cours” Opteron 6000-series processor for servers during the first quarter of 2010, an AMD executive said Monday.
AMD executives wouldn’t reveal the clock speeds of the chip, but said that the new processor would have to be clocked at a slower speed to hit the [...]

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by Mark Hachman
Historically, both the Hot Chips conference here as well as the Microprocessor Forum have been two key venues for the introduction of new processors. Over time, however, the vendors themselves have preferred to stage-manage their own conferences. Two exceptions to the trend will by the IBM POWER7 and the Sun “Rainbow Falls” [...]

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Intel will focus on its next generation of smaller and faster chips at a conference next month as it prepares to ship new chips for systems in 2010.
Intel plans to shed more light on the Westmere architecture at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), which will be held Sept. 22-24 in San Francisco. The company is [...]

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Intel Corp., the largest maker of chips in the world, has outlined plans to make chips using 4nm process technology in about thirteen years. According to Intel, integration capacity of chips will increase much higher compared to fabrication process.
According to Intel’s claims made in Japan at a special event, the world’s largest maker of chips [...]

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by Paul Clarke
Large investment banks are likely to increasingly look towards hardware acceleration for low latency solutions in a bid to shave milliseconds off trading times. This move is imminent, suggest commentators, but sadly any job creation is still a little way off.
“Software cannot be optimized any more than it has been already, nor can [...]

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Grid and cluster computing management software company Platform Computing has inked a distribution agreement with graphics chip maker nVidia. It will see the HPC expert bundle nVidia’s CUDA programming environment with its cluster management tools and integrate it into those tools.
The move will allow Platform Computing’s Load Sharing Facility (LSF), the backbone of its open [...]

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When NASA’s original Apollo 11 moon landing video was accidentally destroyed, it seemed the world had lost a visual record of one of man’s greatest achievements. Fortunately, unique digital video restoration technology from Lowry Digital, powered by Nvidia Tesla GPUs (graphics processing units) with CUDA(TM) technology, has enhanced television coverage of the original video so [...]

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Intel, Nvidia and the Khronos Group rolled out separate graphics programming capabilities aiming to capture mindshare of developers at the annual SIGGRAPH conference.
Khronos announced version 3.2 of its OpenGL graphics programming interface now available online. The update provides enhancements in graphics performance and visual quality and adds support for geometry shaders.
Nvidia released OpenGL 3.2 beta [...]

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