05/12/2011
Bloomberg BusinessWeek
Nvidia Corp. (NVDA), a maker of graphics chips, forecast second-quarter sales that exceeded analysts’ estimates, as demand for personal computers benefited from a new microprocessor from Intel Corp.
Revenue in the current period will rise 4 percent to 6 percent from the first quarter to as much as $1.02 billion, Nvidia said in a [...]
05/09/2011
Barron’s – Online
Chip maker Nvidia (NVDA) this morning said it will purchase Icera, a maker of baseband chips for 3G and 4G handsets, for $367 million in cash.
Icera, based in Bristol in the U.K., has some of the top venture capital names behind it, including Accel Partners and Atlas Venture. The firm closed its [...]
24/2011
ZDNet News
NVIDIA introduced the first dual core ARM chips and is now prepping quad core, while still preserving respectable battery life. Multiple cores are part of the answer to better battery life. See why.
Since early 2011, NVIDIA has been on a tear in the mobile market, jumping ahead of Qualcomm and Texas Instruments. NVIDIA’s [...]
16/2011
ZDNet News
At Mobile World Congress, the chips that power mobile devices are getting as much attention as the gadgets themselves. Over the past week Broadcom, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments have announced new chips that look more like PC processors.
Mobile World Congress, the mega-conference taking place in Barcelona this week, is all [...]
01/28/2011
IDG News Service – New York Bureau
IDG News Service – Qualcomm later this year will start shipping test units of its next-generation tablet and smartphone chip, which will be faster and more power-efficient than existing chips and have an LTE modem.
The Snapdragon MSM8960 chip will be based on a new architecture designed to deliver [...]
01/11/2011
BBC America
The world’s biggest micro-chip maker Intel has agreed to pay its smaller rival Nvidia $1.5bn (£965.2m) to use its technology.
The move brings to an end a legal dispute that began in 2009.
Intel had sued Nvidia, a graphics chip maker, over the right to keep making an Intel designed chip. Nvidia then counter-sued. [...]
01/10/2011
Giga Om
There has long been talk that Nvidia wanted into the server CPU business, but most industry watchers believed it would go the x86 route. Instead, it chose ARM, which arguably shakes up the market far more than just another x86 option would have. ARM’s dominance in mobile devices means it is the processor of [...]
12/07/2010
Reuters – San Francisco Bureau
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Graphics chip designer Nvidia said it has chalked up 200 design wins for notebooks due out in 2011 that also feature Intel’s upcoming Sandy Bridge microprocessor.
Nvidia, which competes against Advanced Micro Devices, won designs to include its graphics chips in about 125 notebook personal computers for [...]
12/02/2010
Forbes – Silicon Valley Bureau
Intel wants to be the brains in your mobile phone. Nvidia might get there first.
Jen-Hsun Huang has always said his graphics chips were good for more than rendering explosions of zombie maniacs in videogames. In October the Nvidia ( NVDA – news – people ) chief executive got his proof when [...]
09/27/2010
CNET News.com
Will small, powerful, connected-to-everything devices running on non-Intel silicon become the personal computer? The CEO of graphics-chip supplier Nvidia thinks so.
Nvidia CEO Huang speaking at an Nvidia conference this week.
The sentiment, voiced at the company’s annual conference this week by chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang, has been expressed before. And like any strong strategy statement [...]
