Tag Archives: Graphics

NVIDIA sees 50 Optimus-enabled notebooks launching by mid-2010

NVIDIA’s newly introduced Optimus technology, which enables compatible notebooks to switch automatically between discrete and integrated graphics, should be present in at least 50 notebooks by mid-2010, according to NVIDIA. Asus is expected to launch a series of notebook models supporting NVIDIA’s Optimus technology, and these include the UL50Vf, N61Jv, N71Jv, N82Jv and U30Jc. With [...]

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Rambus wins over NVIDIA in patent dispute, could result in HP and Asus netbook ban

A company called Rambus which designs high-speed memory chips, claims that NVIDIA has violated five of their patents relating to dynamic-random access memory or DRAM. This also relates to memory controllers, which can be found on either graphics cards or motherboards, and NVIDIA has a business of selling both. A U.S. International Trade Commission judge [...]

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Asus mulling launch of NVIDIA Ion powered netbooks and nettops, Eee Box B1006 on the way?

According to unnamed industry sources cited by DigiTimes in one of its latest reports, Asus is reportedly considering launching new netbooks and nettops with NVIDIA’s Ion platform for enhanced graphics performance on these low-cost machines. Knowing that there are already several products with the NVIDIA Ion chip either out in the market or currently on [...]

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