NVIDIA GT300 was said to consist of 512 shader processors, and features a 512-bit memory controller connecting to GDDR5 memory, which makes people curious about its die size.
According to a recent post at Brightsideofnews, GT300′s 2.4 billion transistors are packed in just 495mm2, much smaller than GT200 with 1.4 billion transistors which measures up to 576mm2. Compared with Intel’s Larrabee manufactured in 45nm which takes around 600mm2, GT300 also appears to be much smaller.
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PowerColor has quietly released ATI Radeon HD 4770 graphics card for outdated Accelerated Graphics Port bus, and you can find this card being listed at the etailer Amazon.
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NVIDIA’s faulty graphics processors made many headlines last year, and millions of laptops were affected. Recently, five users of Apple, Dell and Hewlett-Packard laptops have filed an amended complaint in a San Francisco federal court, accusing NVIDIA of violating consumer protection laws, according to Computerworld.
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Intel is investing $12 million to build up Intel Visual Computing Institute (VCI) in Saarland University in Saarbrucken, Germany. The investment plan will last 5 years, and represents Intel’s largest European university collaboration.
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May 13th, 2009 by Sue Intel
