Monday, 19 April 2010

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Next Generation Tegra: The Power of Eight

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT

Eight is enough? In the case of NVIDA's newest processor for the mobile web, eight is plenty and quite powerful as a matter of fact. We recently debuted the Next Generation Tegra processor and reviewers have been pretty impressed. Anand Shimp at AnandTech said, "Honestly, Tegra 250 is one of the most exciting things I've seen at CES" while Robert Hallock at Icrontic named it one of the 5 best products at CES. "Imagine a device the size of a short paperback that can make short work of 10Mbit 1080p video streams. That is the power of NVIDIA's Tegra 250."

New Tegra

So, what's the power behind this smaller-than-your-thumbnail processor that still gives consumers access to the complete web, full 1080p HD video and long-lasting battery life? Well it's the power of eight, as in eight purpose optimized processors.

Tegra doesn't rely on one type of processor to do everything. It takes a special team approach to make sure browsing, video, audio, gaming all have optimized processors for full function, using the smallest amount of power possible. Tegra 250 includes the world's first dual core CPU for mobile applications and the first full HD 1080p capable video encode and video decode processors. These processors are used together or independently to optimize power usage at all times, and are responsible for Tegra's performance being 10x faster than the processors used in smartphones today, and up to 4x the performance of the previous generation Tegra processor.

To find out more about the power of eight, check out this white paper. We give a deep dive into the new Tegra processor architecture.

CUDA News - Weekly Roundup

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 06:00 AM PDT

Here are highlights from our weekly summary of CUDA, GPU computing and GPGPU news. You can read the full roundup here.

GPU Technology Conference (GTC 2010) - Call for Submissions is now open!

  • GTC 2010 will be held on Sept. 20-23 in San Jose, Calif.
  • Developers, researchers and scientists from around the world are invited to submit proposals and research posters related to innovations in GPU research, technology and applications.
  • GTC 2010 is also accepting nominations for "CEO on Stage", a new opportunity for CEOs of startups and emerging companies in the GPGPU/GPU ecosystem to present to attendees, investors and analysts.
  • Three concurrent GPU-focused summits will occur under one roof:
    • Emerging Companies Summit; GPU Developers Summit; NVIDIA Research Summit  
  • To get email updates between now and Sept., sign up here
Learn something new in our GPU computing webinars
NVIDIA webinars are a great way to get up to speed on today's hot topics, including CUDA, OpenCL, PGI CUDA Fortran, Parallel Nsight and more. Free and open to the public. Upcoming webinars include:
New Parallel Nsight Beta program
Developers are encouraged to sign up for the Parallel Nsight beta. Parallel Nsight is a powerful environment for GPU computing within Microsoft Visual Studio.
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