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3 unusual facts about NVIDIA


Nvidia

In May 2011, it was announced that Nvidia had agreed to acquire Icera, a baseband chip making company in the UK, for $367 million in cash.

RIVA

RIVA was a series of Nvidia graphics accelerator cards.

Transmeta

On August 8, 2008, Transmeta announced that it had licensed its LongRun and low power chip technologies to Nvidia for a one time license fee of $25 million.


7554

The development team used Havok's Vision Engine 8 graphics engine, NVidia's PhysX physics engine, and Xaitment's XaitMap and XaitControl AI programs to create the game.

AMD FireStream

RapidMind also provided stream processing software that worked with ATI and NVIDIA, as well as Cell processors.

Cuda

CUDA, an abbreviation for Compute Unified Device Architecture, a parallel programming framework by NVIDIA

DarkSpace

2.0 GHz Intel Pentium 4/AMD Sempron Processor, Windows XP/Vista/7, Dedicated graphics card (Nvidia GeForce 9500GT / AMD/ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series or better), 1 GB of RAM (2 GB for Vista/7), 200 MB free hard drive space, Broadband internet connection, Direct Input compatible mouse, DirectX 9.0c or higher.

Dell Latitude

All Nvidia models will suffer from early failure of the graphics chip due to defective solder and "underfill" of the BGA graphics core as it responds to thermal fluctuations.

Economy of Reading, Berkshire

Other technology companies with a significant presence in the town include Agilent Technologies, Assuria, Audio & Design (Recording) Ltd, Bang & Olufsen, Cisco, Ericsson, Harris Corporation, Intel, Nvidia, Sage, Sagem Orga, SGI, Symantec, Symbol Technologies, Verizon Business, Virgin Media, Websense, Xansa (now Steria), and Xerox.

EVGA

EVGA Corporation, a computer hardware manufacturer which produces NVIDIA graphics cards and Intel motherboards

Framebuffer

At one time there were many manufacturers of graphics accelerators, including: 3dfx; ATI; Hercules; Trident; Nvidia; Radius; S3 Graphics; SiS and Silicon Graphics.

GeForce 400 Series

The GeForce 400 Series is the 11th generation of Nvidia's GeForce graphics processing units, which serves as the introduction for the Fermi architecture (GF-codenamed chips), named after the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi.

HP TouchSmart

The series featured a 22-inch widescreen touchscreen display, an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, a 500GB disk, 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 9300 M HS HD graphics, and 802.11n WiFi, along with an Energy Star qualification.

IZ3D

iZ3D, Inc., was an American company that developed and sold software which enabled the usage of many different 3D techniques on NVidia and ATI graphic cards, and also sold stereoscopic monitors based on polarization technology.

Jeff Trinkle

Variants of this method are key components of several physics engines for computer game development, for example, NVIDIA PhysX and Bullet.

Open64

The 2010 Open64 Developers Forum describes projects done at Absoft, AMD, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fudan University, HP, National Tsing Hua University, Nvidia, Tensilica, Tsinghua University, and University of Houston.

SGPIO

is generally adopted and implemented in products from most major HBA and storage controller vendors such as LSI, Intel, Adaptec, Nvidia, Broadcom, Marvell Technology Group and PMC-Sierra.

SiS 6326

According to a test of Tom's Hardware of January 21, 1998, it could perform roughly a third of the performance of a NVidia RIVA 128 or 40% less than an ATI Rage Pro in terms of frames per second in Direct3D benchmarks and simply couldn't play Quake due its lack of OpenGL support.

TeraChem

According to the recent post at the NVIDIA blog, TeraChem has been tested to deliver 8-50 times better performance than General Atomic and Molecular Structure System (GAMESS).

Tripwire Interactive

Red Orchestra won top prize in the nVidia-sponsored Make Something Unreal competition.

TurboCache

This figure could lie between 16-128MiB, with NVIDIA listing only total memory from both video memory and main memory.

Unreal Tournament 2003

Video Card: Video card with a 16 megabytes of video-RAM and DirectX 8 compatible(like ATI Rage 128 and Nvidia TNT)required,video card with a 32-128 megabytes of video RAM (like ATI Radeon and Nvidia Geforce 2)recommended

XFX

Originally, XFX only produced Nvidia graphics cards, however during the beginning of 2009 XFX decided to begin manufacturing ATi (now AMD) graphics cards as well.


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