NVIDIA CEO: We Love All APIs Capable of GPU Computing

 

As we know, Microsoft has DirectCompute in Windows 7 and Apple has OpenCL in Snow Leopard, but NVIDIA believes both of them are inspired by CUDA, and consider itself to be the most enthusiastic co-developer of those two APIs.

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Intel’s P55 Chipset Moving to B3 Stepping

 

We’ve been just told that Intel is planning to update its P55 chipset to B3 stepping next month. Since the B3 chips are pin compatible with B2 parts, no physical motherboard modifications are needed, but firmware and minor BIOS updates are required.

According to Intel, the first P55 B3 chips will start shipping from December 7th, but customers will receive a combination of both B2 and B3 stepping chipset by February 5th, 2010.

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HIS HD 5750 iCooler IV Graphics Card Almost Ready for Purchase

 

HIS has just unveiled an iCooler IV version of the DirectX 11-supporting Radeon HD 5750 graphics card - HD 5750 iCooler IV.

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TSMC Refutes 40nm Yield Drop Rumors

 

TSMC’s 40nm fabrication process was said to have come across a technical problem, with the yield rate dropping from 60% to 40%, but the company has just denied that.

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Radeon HD 5950 Caught on Camera

 

Several days after the sneak peek of ATI Radeon HD 5970, another dual-GPU card has been leaked to our fellow site Alienbabeltech, again. According to someone who wishes to be known as DJ, the card is powered by 1440*2 stream processors.

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NVIDIA CEO: I am All Apple

 

NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang gave a speech at American University of Dubai on Monday, and then sat down with representatives from media to talk about his company and their products.

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