Chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp. said last week that Advanced Micro Devices has always been a serious rival for his company and remains a tough competitor today. However, Nvidia believes that its new business approach greatly helps it to avoid competing directly with other suppliers. “[AMD has] been a …
Read More »Nvidia CEO addresses GeForce GTX 970 scandal in a letter to customers
Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp. on Tuesday wrote an open letter to the company’s customers covering the recent GeForce GTX 970 controversy. The head of the GPU developer admitted that the company failed to communicate how memory sub-system works on the GeForce GTX 970, but said that …
Read More »Nvidia: Expect developers to license our GPU tech in coming months
It has been well over 1.5 years since Nvidia Corp. started to license its graphics cores to third parties in an attempt to address growing opportunities in the world of smart consumer electronics and mobile devices. So far, no third-party chip designer has licensed “Kepler” or “Maxwell” graphics processing technologies …
Read More »Has AMD taken 2 years to follow nVidia’s footsteps?
At CES in January 2011, Jen Hsun gave a big speech about the fruits from Project Denver, the idea of nVidia working with another company to incorporate important CPU technologies that the graphics giant lacked in its portfolio. Today, in San Francisco, AMD looks set to make a very similar …
Read More »nVidia GT640 pics, specs and launch info
So far, nVidia's launch of the Kepler range has gone smoothly. The only real hiccups have come with stock and the re-branding for some of the old 5xx cards into the 610 and 620. With the low and high ends sorted, focus for Bryan Del Rizzo moves to the mid-range …
Read More »Mars III invasion planned for Computex
While the rest of the world plus dog looks to nVidia's schedule for delivering a pair of GTX670 chips on a single card under the name ‘690', it seems that Jen Hsun will actually be salivating over something slightly different in Taiwan this year. KitGuru engages thrusters to maintain a …
Read More »nVidia’s best Tegra 2 designs delayed to Q4?
KitGuru gets access to a lot of data as it flows across the interwibble. With launches and delays part of the ebb and flow of modern computing, it must be particularly annoying when one company's glory is interfered with by another product's failure to launch. KitGuru fills a glass of …
Read More »nVidia execs uncertain GTX560 can command $299
Getting the right price for a product is crucial. Too low and you miss out on profits. Too high and the product can fail to sell at all. So what price does the GTX560 need to be in order to succeed. This is a question that has preoccupied nVidia's execs …
Read More »Why has nVidia been more attractive to Wall Street than AMD?
There's nothing KitGuru enjoys more on a Sunday morning than analysing tech specs and financial data. With the posting of nVidia's latest results for its 3rd quarter, we were in the mood to see how the global land lies. KitGuru has been plotting (financials) and we're puzzled. AMD VPs hate …
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