Today marks the opening of NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference, and to kick off the conference the company pulled a rare move, it decided to tell us what’s coming next. After the launch of Fermi last year, it seems NVIDIA is poised to launch the next version by 2011. The next set of chips after Fermi more »

When everyone first learned about the Boxee set-top back in 2009, we were all equally excited about the the web video universal catch-all to be one plug integrated with our TVs. Placement of the device is obvious and will be a direct competitor with refangled Apple TV. As initially anticipated, the upcoming Boxee with not more »

With the except of the Tegra and Ion platforms, we haven’t been hearing much from NVIDIA in terms of graphics cards lately. Mobile graphics are certainly important, but we still need great graphic cards on our desktops or laptops. Screenshots leaked on a Chinese message board show that NVIDIA is definitely working on fantastic graphics more »

Netbooks, while nice little computers, have become very boring. The main difference between most of them is screen size, shell design, and the company logo on the lid. Some may offer a choice between SSD and HDD or a 270 or 280 Intel Atom processor, but that’s about it. There’s finally something a bit different more »

As JG mentioned yesterday, rumors are floating about talks between Verizon and Apple. AT&T just might be losing exclusive rights to their major breadwinner.

But, it seems more and more as though if the deal does go through that we won’t be looking at the exact same iPhone just marketed through a different carrier. All that nasty exclusivity confusion and all that. We are hearing whispers of an iPhone Lite for one, by one person who claims to have seen a prototype of the device. The iPhone Lite is obviously similar to its big brother, just more compact and less expensive. My…a cheaper iPhone. Somehow I think the people just may like that part.

Nvidia has had a one hell of a week. They got downgraded by S&P while in the middle of a knock down, drag out fight with Intel over some licensing rights. How did Wall Street react to the news? Surprisingly good. Nvidia fought Intel back on two fronts. First off, a countersuit, then they eye a share of an Intel rival. Get fully filled in after the break.

On Tuesday, October 14th, Steve Jobs announced a chipset that Apple worked on with Nvidia. It resulted in a 16-core integrated GPU that’s in both the MacBook and MacBook Pro. On Monday, Nvidia announced the desktop version of the GPU. Nvidia is calling the chips the 9300 and 9400 mGPUs as they are half the size of standard integrated graphics, but can accomplish a lot more.

While the specs aren’t included in the press release, the chips are pretty impressive. They can transfer the entirety of video decoding from the CPU to the GPU, making it work much faster. They also support Blu-Ray playback and Direct X10. Keep reading for what apps can really take advantage of these new cards.