Nvidia teases something for end of April
Possible hardware reveal
Nvidia has released a teaser that suggests a possible new hardware reveal on 29th of April.
Nvidia claims it can beat Google’s tensor processing unit
It compared it against the wrong Nvidia card
Google’s internal benchmarks of its own TPU, or tensor processing unit, indicated that its purpose built AI board cleaned Nvidia’s clock when it came to number crunching and power consumption.
Nvidia releases the new Titan Xp
Fully-enabled GP102 GPU for US $1200
Nvidia has updated its Titan graphics card lineup by launching the new Titan Xp, a version of the Titan X which comes with a fully-enabled GP102 Pascal GPU for a total of 3840 CUDA cores.
Nvidia releases Mac drivers for the Titan Xp
But Apple has not flogged a machine that can run one
In somewhat strange news, Nvidia is saying that it is releasing macOS drivers for its Pascal architecture GPUs.
Competition in AI platform market to heat up in 2017
Intel, Qualcomm, Nvidia, AMD vying for customers in AI-fueled markets
Major component manufacturers in the artificial intelligence (AI) market have all increased their efforts to develop more aggressive processors for AI-fueled markets in 2017 including autonomous vehicles, enterprise drones, medical care, smart factories, image recognition, and general neural network research and development.
AMD expects Vega to give Nvidia a good kicking in the notebooks
Smaller footprints
In a move which will get the Nvidia fanboys jolly cross, AMD has said that its new Vega line-up will actually compete with their favourite chip maker in the notebook market.
New Intel, AMD and Nvidia products not helping industry
Motherboard makers still miserable
Despite the fact that the big three chipmakers are coming up with new products, motherboard makers are continuing to see reduced shipments, which suggest that none of them are expected to have stellar sales.
Nvidia releases Geforce 378.92 WHQL driver
One to have for Mass Effect: Andromeda
Just ahead of the Mass Effect: Andromeda launch, Nvidia released its newest Geforce 378.92 WHQL Game Ready driver, which brings all the optimization for Mass Effect Andromeda and Rock Band VR games, adds or updates a couple of SLI profiles, and brings support for Dolby Vision for games.
EVGA adds G-Sync to its SC17 notebook
Drops price on previous SC17 model
EVGA has announced an updated version of its high-end gaming notebook, the SC17, which will now include an option with a 17.3-inch 4K/UHD screen with Nvidia G-Sync technology.
Nvidia shows Mass Effect Andromeda in 4K HDR
Running on GTX 1080 Ti
While Mass Effect Andromeda has just become available for some EA/Origin Access users as a 10-hour trial, Nvidia has brought a rather neat treat, in the form of a 4K trailer with HDR enabled.