Titanfall to Get More Eye Candy with NVIDIA GameWorks
Mixing mayhem and monstrous machines in never-before-seen ways, Titanfall has already reinvigorated the first-person shooter genre.Now, we’ll be working with Titanfall’s game developer, Respawn...
View ArticleDirectX 12: A Major Stride for Gaming
Microsoft today introduced DirectX 12 at the annual Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. DX12 is Microsoft’s latest version of the graphics API that is the dominant standard in the...
View ArticleNVIDIA, AMD, Intel Explain How OpenGL Can Unlock 15x Performance Gains
If you want to get a developer’s attention, all you need to do is start dropping whole numbers.Offer something that’s not 1.2 times better — but two or three times better — you know you’ve got...
View ArticleTitanfall to Get More Eye Candy with NVIDIA GameWorks
Mixing mayhem and monstrous machines in never-before-seen ways, Titanfall has already reinvigorated the first-person shooter genre.Now, we’ll be working with Titanfall’s game developer, Respawn...
View ArticleIBM, Orange Model GPUs for Next Generation Enterprise Big Data Analytics at GTC
IBM is taking a big step in applying GPU technology to help solve some of the biggest enterprise IT challenges.At next week’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose, Calif. (March 24-27), IBM will...
View ArticleWhy DARPA Wants to Take GPUs from Virtual Battlefields to Real Ones
GPUs are great at rendering virtual battlefields populated by giant robots, aliens, and cybernetic soldiers.Now the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), birthplace of the Internet,...
View ArticleHow GPUs Help Computers Understand What They’re Seeing
Researchers have been able to advance computerized object recognition to once unfathomable levels, thanks to GPUs.Building on the work of neural network pioneers Kunihiko Fukushima and Yann LeCun – and...
View ArticleLive: Jen-Hsun Huang Kicks Off NVIDIA’s 2014 GPU Technology Conference
NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang kicks off our annual GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California this morning.Stay tuned, we’ll be live blogging throughout the event, starting at 9 o’clock Pacific.Hit...
View ArticleNVIDIA Updates GPU Roadmap; Announces Pascal
During a keynote speech at our annual GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, Calif., NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang updated our public GPU roadmap with the announcement of Pascal, the GPU family that will...
View ArticleWhat’s Machine Learning? Thanks to GPU Accelerators, You’re Already Soaking...
Adobe, Baidu, Netflix, Yandex. Some of the biggest names in social media and cloud computing use NVIDIA CUDA-based GPU accelerators to provide seemingly magical search, intelligent image analysis and...
View ArticleTwo GPUs, One Insane Graphics Card: Introducing the GeForce GTX TITAN Z
Continuing the TITAN legacy of supercomputer-inspired performance, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang unveiled the GeForce GTX TITAN Z today at our annual GPU Technology Conference.Built around two Kepler GPUs...
View ArticleWhat’s in the Box? Portal – Valve’s Popular PC Title – Coming to SHIELD
One of SHIELD’s strengths is that it’s an open gaming platform. That means gamers have been enjoying the best of both PC and Android worlds since its launch.Those worlds are now set to collide.We’re...
View ArticleSelf-Driving Audi, TITAN Z and Six Other GTC News Highlights
Audis driving themselves. Artificial brains powering web sites. Graphics cards boasting the power of entire data centers.It’s clear at this week’s fifth annual GPU Technology Conference that visual...
View ArticleNVIDIA SHIELD – New Games, New Features and Now $199 for a Limited Time
NVIDIA SHIELD was designed to be the ultimate portable for serious gamers. To achieve that mark, we engineered SHIELD with the most advanced and purpose built technologies available, including a...
View ArticleOculus VR Exec, Slated to Appear at GTC, Begs Off Amid Acquisition News
How hot is visual computing? So hot a speaker from virtual-reality startup Oculus VR couldn’t even make it to the podium at our annual GPU Technology Conference before his company was acquired.After...
View ArticleHow GPUs Can Help Build Super Advanced Neural Networks On the Cheap
An intriguing theme at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference this week is the GPU’s impact on pushing the frontiers of neural networking closer to how the human brain recognizes images. It’s a research...
View ArticleHow GPUs Make Imaginary Cars Into Movie Stars
If Daniel Simon‘s work doesn’t cast GPUs as a technology of the future, nothing will.Simon, whose vehicle designs have appeared in such films as Tron: Legacy, Captain America: The First Avenger, and...
View ArticleHow Pixar Uses GPUs to Give Their Artists What They Need Most – Time to...
Nemo. Monsters Inc. The Incredibles.When we watch Pixar’s entrancing movies, characters and plots seem to fly across the screen at the speed of a small child’s imagination. But until just a few years...
View ArticleUpdate: Oculus Exec, Day After $2B Facebook Acquisition, Speaks at GTC
How awesome is Oculus Chief Software Architect Michael Antonov?A day after news broke that the virtual reality startup will be acquired by Facebook for $2 billion, Antonov showed up at our annual GPU...
View ArticleData-Visualization Startup Map-D Fends Off Competition to Bank $100,000
What began as polite theater turned into a shark tank by the time a check for $100,000 cash was delivered— on the spot — to the winner of the GPU Technology Conference’s Early Stage Challenge.Given...
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