It looks like IFA isn’t entirely dominated by Android tablets and 3D TVs. At the event, NVIDIA took the time to announce a slew of new GeForce 400M GPUs. The new chips will be included in laptops from Acer, Asus, Dell, Toshiba, Samsung, and Lenovo, with more manufacturers to come. The new 400M GPUs come more »

Four years ago, AMD bought out ATI, and has continued to use the brand name for graphics cards. That all ends today as AMD has announced that the ATI branding will no longer be used by the company. AMD’s announcement sees ATI chipsets keeping the same names, so the Radeon and FirePro lines will still 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 »

NVIDIA, one of the two largest companies in the field of graphics chips is looking to get into the CPU market. It won’t necessarily be showing up in your desktop computer anytime soon, but the idea is still there. Actually, the chips will most likely find their way into notebooks and netbooks which need to more »

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.

Genius has announced two new multimedia tablets designed specifically for graphic designers and artists, the G-Pen M609 and G-Pen M712. Both tablets are plug and play ready and will work with either Windows Vista or Mac OS X, and have a high resolution (4,000 LPI) screen display. The G-Pen M609 comes with a display measuring 9″ x 5.5″ (wide) / 7.25″ x 5.5″ (standard) while the slightly bigger G-Pen 712 touts a bigger display measuring 12” x 7.25” (wide) / x 9.5” x 7.25” (standard).

AT&T has announced a repackaged version of its successful mobile content shop, and is branding it Media Mall 2.0. The Media Mall 2.0 will have a new feature called “try-before-you-buy.” This feature allows consumers to try the mobile content first directly from their cellphone before having to make the purchase. The redesigned Media Mall 2.0 will provide AT&T subscribers with a selection of 90,000 games, full songs and ringtones.

Mark Collins, vice president of Consumer Data for AT&T’s wireless unit envisions that the Media Mall 2.0 will be a one-stop shop for mobile content and applications. Hence the need for the remodeling.

Toshiba has introduced the latest and the meanest version of its flagship gaming notebook series. The Satellite X205-SLi has a cogent Penryn at its heart backed by NVIDIA’s SLI graphics, which will combine to give you the crispiest gaming experience imaginable. The X205-SLi’s processor is an Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 (45 nm) that clocks more »