http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/17/geforce.gt.240.updates.nvs.budget.gpus/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/nvidiageforcegt240.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />NVIDIA in a low-key move today launched the GeForce GT 240. The chipset brings performance from the mid-level to sub-$100 cards and uses the newer 40 nanometer manufacturing process to make itself a reasonable fit in budget PCs: its low energy use both helps it occupy only one slot and to run entirely off the power of the PCI Express bus instead of needing a separate power connector.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/17/geforce.gt.240.updates.nvs.budget.gpus/ Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/16/nvidia.20.series.teslas.appear/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/nvidiateslac2050.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />NVIDIA today provided details of the first official hardware to use its upcoming Fermi architecture. The Tesla 20 series is even more optimized for general-purpose computing standards like OpenCL or NVIDIA's own CUDA and handles complex math that previously hasn't been as practical, such as ISO standard double-precision math and C++ code processing. Unlike past models, though, the card model als... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/16/nvidia.20.series.teslas.appear/ Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:20:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/12/new.version.supports.up.to.256.cores/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/pgi2010-story-12.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The Portland Group has announced the 2010 version of its PGI compilers and development tools. The new release is the first to fully support the PGI Accelerator Programming model 1.0 standard for x64 processor systems that use NVIDIA CUDA-enabled GPUs. CUDA Fortran, which is the primary GPU interface, is also now included to give developers direct control of NVIDIA GPUs.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/12/new.version.supports.up.to.256.cores/ Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/02/nvidia.fermi.with.snow.leopard.in.mind/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/nvidiafermi.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The just-unveiled Fermi graphics architecture will find its way into Macs and play an important role in Mac OS X Snow Leopard, NVIDIA chief scientist Bill Dally said today. While it's expected that NVIDIA would continue to play an important part of future Macs, the researcher drew a particular connection between the new GPU design and Apple's new OS, expecting that it would provide a significant ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/02/nvidia.fermi.with.snow.leopard.in.mind/ Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:35:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/30/nvidia.fermi/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/nvidiafermi.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />NVIDIA this evening provided an early look at the next generation of its graphics processors. Nicknamed Fermi, the architecture for future GeForce, Quadro and Tesla chipsets will jump from 240 cores to a much larger 512 and should be much faster in each core courtesy of some industry-first techniques. Fermi chips will be the first GPUs to have a real cache hierarchy, with Level 1 caches to keep ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/30/nvidia.fermi/ Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:35:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/29/translates.for.supporting.video.cards/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/cudafortran-story-29.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />NVIDIA has announced that a public beta release of the PGI CUDA-enabled Fortran compiler is now available for download. The compiler was developed by NVIDIA and the Portland Group, and is billed as the first Fortran compiler that works with CUDA-enabled GPUs. The compiler translates the Fortran programming language into binary code that CUDA GPUs can interpret.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/29/translates.for.supporting.video.cards/ Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:15:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/01/nvidia.ion.sequel.speedup/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0907/nvidiageforce9400m.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The sequel to NVIDIA's Ion platform could be much faster than its predecessor when it ships, leaks today would show. While the current graphics and chipset combo is based on the GeForce 9400M and has just 16 visual effects cores, Fudzilla now hears that it will have 32 cores, potentially doubling the amount of simultaneous effects it can handle at once. The difference will have the most dramatic... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/01/nvidia.ion.sequel.speedup/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:30:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/05/21/apple.arm.cortex.job/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0905/armcortex.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple has posted a job listing that hints at the company's future hardware direction for the iPhone, iPod touch and possible other devices. The position for a High Perform/Low Level Programmer asks for someone familiar not only for programming assembly-level code for ARM processors, which Apple already uses in its handhelds, but for the NEON vector math units used in the newer Cortex architecture... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/05/21/apple.arm.cortex.job/ Thu, 21 May 2009 14:10:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/15/mac.mini.nvidia.ion.rumor/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0901/nvidiaion.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple's Mac mini desktop will switch to NVIDIA's Ion platform and Intel's Atom chip as a result, an alleged confirmation by an NVIDIA partner asserts. The Cupertino company is believed to be using the combination graphics and system chipset in an updated computer that would also use the 1.6GHz, dual-core Atom 330. While slower in processing power than the existing Core 2 Duo, the mini system wou... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/15/mac.mini.nvidia.ion.rumor/ Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:35:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/11/21/apple.opencl.trademark/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0806/nvidiateslat10p.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple has filed for a trademark on OpenCL technology, documents from the US Patent and Trademark Office show. The standard is intended to better distribute processing power on a computer, by using the normally segregated processing on a video card to help with tasks unrelated to graphics. Video cards can be extremely powerful, Apple notes, but only tend to maximize their use in certain applicati... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/11/21/apple.opencl.trademark/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:20:00 GMT