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Fermi is NVIDIA’s answer to ATI’s top dogs, but what about gamers on a tight budget? Should we be cast aside like yesterday’s trash? NVIDIA’s crippled Fermi GeForce GTX 465 was a waste of $300. The GTX 460 is priced accordingly and unlike the 465 (which is a stripped down GF100), it is based off a brand new core, the efficient and muscular GF104. More »


Quite a bit of speculation has surrounded the processor and graphics of Nintendo’s 3DS handheld, which some had guessed might have NVIDIA’s Tegra. Digital Media Professionals (who?) has just quashed many rumors by officially announcing that its proprietary 3D graphics chip Pica200 is inside the 3DS. Check out the video of DMP’s 200MHz CPU in action. More »


The mid-range Fermi graphics card GTX 465 that was benchmarked a few weeks ago is official. At $279 for the GTX 465 ($70 less than the GTX 470), NVIDIA puts Fermi into the hands of more PC gamers. More »


Two major announcements by graphics giant Nvidia signal a shift of focus.

First, Nvidia announced yesterday that it will be ceasing all development of new chipsets. It is mainly because of a licensing agreement with Intel. In previous Intel computers, the processor (CPU) was connected to a northbridge chip. The north bridge would communicated with the memory (RAM) and an integrated graphics processor. It was also connected to a southbridge via the front side bus (FSB) that communicated with all other parts like the graphics card, sound card, etc.

In new Core i5 and i7 based computers, the CPU took over the duty of the northbridge and the CPU communicates with the southbridge using a proprietary bus called the Digital Media Interface (DMI) bus. Previously, Nvidia had a license to make northbridge and southbridge chips that used the FSB. Now, Intel isn’t giving them a license for the new DMI. So, Nvidia can’t make chipsets for Core i5 and i7 computers. There is ongoing litigation regarding the DMI licensing problem, but it will most likely not end in Nvidia’s favor. More »


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