January 19, 2010
Nvidia details GF100 graphics beastie
The Register
Rik Myslewski outline’s Nvidia’s upcoming GF100 graphics processor.
“The GF100 will be Nvidia’s first to be based on the company’s muscular Fermi architecture, which features such niceties as scores of CUDA (compute unified device architecture) cores and ECC (error-correcting code) support. Fermi will find its way into a variety of products destined for both desktops and HPC rigs. The GF100 will be the first game-centric part. According to Nvidia, the GF100 is ‘designed for gaming performance leadership. To help accomplish this goal, the GF100 implements all of Windows 7’s DirectX 11 hardware APIs. Nvidia is especially proud of the GF100’s support for DirectX 11’s tessellation capabilities, which it asserts will allow for more-complex geometry and animation, including enhanced fluid effects and more-realistic hair effects”
Silver Linings to HP/Microsoft Cloud?
Network World
Jim Frey offers his thoughts on the recently announced advanced technological integration partnership between HP and Microsoft.
“So what can HP do with Microsoft that the others can’t? In particular, there are two areas where I see strategic advantage for this combination. First off, Microsoft has the most ubiquitous office productivity software suite – hands down, bar none – and moving that software and enabling server technologies behind it into the cloud will be one of the key checkmarks required for the cloud phenomenon to move from interesting to real. Second, HP brings a rich and deep portfolio of management technologies, stretching across all functional domains from the lowest network levels through servers and into applications, with service management and BSM capabilities tying it all together.”
Acer founder thinks American IT brands will be dead in 20 years
ZD Net
Rachel King recap’s Acer founder, Stan Shih’s thoughts on US-based IT companies.
“According to AFP, the Taiwanese founder (Stan Shih) said that low-priced computers is the way of the future, continuing on that ‘US computer makers just don’t know how to put such products on the market… US computer brands may disappear over the next 20 years, just like what happened to US television brands.’”
