by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes April 15th, 2008
When nVIDIA bought Ageia Technologies in February of this year it was clear what nVIDIA had in mind - to make the PhysX API independent of separate hardware and instead offload the work to the GPU. Well, only two months on and nVIDIA have announced that the conversion of the API to CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) is almost complete. What this means is that owners of GeForce 8 and GeForce 9 cards will be able to download and install driver written in CUDA which will enable PhysX (for PhysX-enabled games - expect this list to grow now nVIDIA is on board) without having to have a separate PPU.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
IBM, Partners Offer Customers Latest 32-Nano Chip Technology
By Antone Gonsalves April 14, 2008
An IBM led alliance on Monday said customers now have the option of designing into future products the group's jointly developed 32-nanometer chips, which are expected to be more power efficient than current-generation microprocessors. The latest processors use transistors built with a new material known as "high-k/metal gate," which makes it possible to shrink the size of transistors to 32 nanometers. The latest chips today use 45-nanometer transistors. By reducing the size further, chipmakers can get more of the devices on a piece of silicon, which translates into greater power efficiency. IBM has manufactured chips using high-k/metal gate at its 300-millimeter semiconductor fabrication facility in East Fishkill, N.Y. IBM partners in the initiative include Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Freescale, Infineon Technologies, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics, and Toshiba. Intel is not part of the alliance, but the chipmaker is developing its own chips using similar materials.
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An IBM led alliance on Monday said customers now have the option of designing into future products the group's jointly developed 32-nanometer chips, which are expected to be more power efficient than current-generation microprocessors. The latest processors use transistors built with a new material known as "high-k/metal gate," which makes it possible to shrink the size of transistors to 32 nanometers. The latest chips today use 45-nanometer transistors. By reducing the size further, chipmakers can get more of the devices on a piece of silicon, which translates into greater power efficiency. IBM has manufactured chips using high-k/metal gate at its 300-millimeter semiconductor fabrication facility in East Fishkill, N.Y. IBM partners in the initiative include Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Freescale, Infineon Technologies, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics, and Toshiba. Intel is not part of the alliance, but the chipmaker is developing its own chips using similar materials.
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