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Jen-Hsun doesn't beleive in your so called economic downturn

Subject: General Tech | May 10, 2013 - 05:21 PM |
Tagged: eranings, Q1 2013, nvidia, jen-hsun huang

NVIDIA seems to have completely ignored the economic downturn that has affected so many tech companies and posted gains in both revenue and profit for Q1 2013.  The entire PC market may have shrunk by 10% but NVIDIA's profits were up 16.7% compared to 12 months ago, though when looking at GPU sales alone they did see about a 5% decline.  Now that NVIDIA has branched out into mobility and HPC however, their total sales are up by 3%.  The Register postulates that part of the reason their sales did not decline as much as other manufacturers is their focus on high end GPUs which are immune to the erosion being caused by sales of mobile devices such as tablets.  Get the whole set of numbers here.

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"In the first quarter of fiscal 2014 ended on April 28, Nvidia's overall sales rose by 3.2 per cent to $954.7m. Big Green was able pull $77.9m to the bottom line, up 16.7 per cent compared to the year-ago period – even while investing in a substantial bump-up in research and development costs – thanks to a shift to higher margin products in both the discrete graphics and Tesla GPU coprocessor lines."

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Source: The Register

Triangles beat voxels when you are constructing a building

Subject: General Tech | February 22, 2013 - 12:23 PM |
Tagged: nvidia, jen-hsun huang

NVIDIA will have a new nerve center across the street from their existing headquarters as from what Jen-Hsun told The Register they are almost at the point where they need bunk-desks in their current HQ.  The triangle pattern that the artists concepts shown not only embodies a key part of NVIDIA's technology but is also a well recognized technique in architecture to provide very sturdy construction.  Hao Ko was the architect chosen for the design, his resume includes a terminal at JFK airport as well as a rather tall building in China.  For NVIDIA's overlord to plan such an expensive undertaking shows great confidence in his companies success, even with the shrinking discrete GPU market.

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"Move over Apple. Nvidia cofounder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang wants to build his own futuristic space-station campus – and as you might expect, the Nvidia design is black and green and built from triangles, the basic building block of the mathematics around graphics processing. And, as it turns out, the strongest shape in architecture."

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Source: The Register

Jen-Hsun Huang's reveal of the GTX 690

Subject: General Tech | May 1, 2012 - 05:11 PM |
Tagged: jen-hsun huang, nvidia, GTX 690

Jen-Hsun Huang is always entertaining and informative to watch and that is exactly what you can do at NGOHQ.  They captured his speech at the Gaming Festival where he revealed the dual GPU GTX 690.   He also unveiled NVIDIA’s cloud-based GeForce Experience technology which is intended to take stock of your computers components and set your games options to provide the best balance of performance and quality without you having to find out on your own.

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"Nvidia's CEO Jen-Hsun Huang keynote from the GeForce LAN / Nvidia Gaming Festival in Shanghai, China. The event was attended by more than 6,000 gamers from across China. The GeForce GTX 690 was announced there."

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Source: NGOHQ

NVIDIA Announces dual-GPU Kepler GeForce GTX 690

Subject: Graphics Cards | April 28, 2012 - 11:55 PM |
Tagged: nvidia, kepler, jen-hsun huang, hd 7990, GTX 690, gtx 680, geforce, 7990

During a keynote presentation at GeForce LAN 2012 being held in Shanghai, NVIDIA's CEO Jen-Hsun Huang unveiled what many of us have been theorizing would be coming soon; the dual-GPU variant of the Kepler architecture, the GeForce GTX 690 graphics card.

Though reviews aren't going to be released yet, Huang unveiled pretty much all of the information we need to figure it out.  With the full specifications listed as well as details about the stunning new design of the card and cooler, the GTX 690 is without a doubt going to be the fastest graphics card on the market when it goes on sale next month.

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The GeForce GTX 690 4GB card is based on a pair of GK104 chips, each sporting 1536 CUDA cores, basically identical to the ones used in the GeForce GTX 680 2GB cards released in March.  The base clock speed of these parts is slightly lower at 915 MHz but the "typical" Boost clock is set as high as 1019 MHz, pushing it pretty close to the performance of the single GPU solutions.  With a total of 3072 processing cores, the GTX 690 will have insane amounts of compute horsepower.

Each GPU will have access to 2GB of independent frame buffer still running at 6 Gbps, for a grand total of 4GB on the card.  

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Sitting between the two GPUs will be a PCI Express 3.0 capable bridge chip from PLX supporting full x16 lanes to each GPU and a full x16 back to the host system. 

In terms of power requirements, the GTX 690 will use a pair of 8-pin connectors and will have a TDP of 300 watts - actually not that high consider the TDP of the GTX 680 is 195 watts on its own.  It is obvious that NVIDIA is going to be pulling the very best chips for this card, those that can run at clock speeds over 1 GHz with minimal leakage.  

Continue reading for more details and photos of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 4GB Graphics Card!!

Source: PC Perspective

If it wasn't for a certain person AMD might have bought the other GPU guys

Subject: General Tech | February 23, 2012 - 04:05 PM |
Tagged: amd, nvidia, jen-hsun huang, hector ruiz

Take this story at The Inquirer with a grain of salt as the source might just have a bit of an axe to grind with their former employer; regardless it makes for an interesting read.  The idea that Jen-Hsun's desire to be top boss of the company that absorbed the one he was running at the time certainly fits the personality he shows publicly.  Then again Hector lasted a mere 2 years after the purchase of ATI so perhaps a change in leadership at that time would have changed AMD's future somewhat.  ATI could still be around and AMD might be more focused on SoC and HPC as opposed to the APU route they took.

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"CHIP DESIGNER AMD wanted to cut a deal with Nvidia before settling for buying ATI instead, according to former AMD employees.

AMD completed a deal to buy ATI for $5.4bn in 2006, but only after it couldn't agree on terms with Nvidia, according to former AMD employees interviewed by Forbes. One of the stumbling blocks to the deal was Nvidia's colourful CEO Jen-Hsun Huang wanting to become the CEO of the combined company, effectively ousting then AMD CEO Hector Ruiz."

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Source: The Inquirer

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