Nvidia's GP100 Pascal GPU has 56 SMs enabled
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Out of 60 possible

Nvidia confirmed that there are 56 streaming multiprocessor (SM) units each having 64 CUDA cores enabled on the GP100 GPU. This results in 3,584 cores on the Tesla P100 GPU. However, this leaves 4 SM cores disabled as the total number of SM’s is 60.

Pascal P100 610mm^2 is in volume production
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Today

Jen-Hsun Huang just announced Pascal P100 a new GPU based on Pascal architecture, and it is in production, shipping "soon."

Inside Nvidia's GP100 Pascal GPU
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Thursday, 07 April 2016 07:46

Inside Nvidia's GP100 Pascal GPU


Still no NVLINK support for consumer x86 CPUs

More Pascal details leaked
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Monday, 22 February 2016 11:03

More Pascal details leaked


12 TFLOPs of Single-Precision (FP32) compute

New information has leaked about Nvidia's Pascal GPU, covering the total compute performance of the FinFET-based chip.

Dual Pascal-based self-driving car coming from Volvo next year
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DRIVE PX 2 test driven in Sweden in 2017

Buried deep in Nvidia's financial Q4 2016 earnings call was a brief referecmce to the company's Automotive division, which made Nvidia a record $93 million in Q4, up 18 percent sequentially, and up 68 percent year-over-year. There is also a mention that Volvo will be the first manufacturer to take Nvidia's dual Pascal-based DRIVE PX 2 platform for a ride in Sweden.

Pascal in testing phase
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Monday, 15 February 2016 13:17

Pascal in testing phase


Sent to India

The next-gen Pascal-based GPUs by Nvidia are now in the testing and validation phase.

Nvidia Pascal rumoured for April
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Monday, 01 February 2016 11:34

Nvidia Pascal rumoured for April


New chip soon

The dark satanic rumour mill has been flat out manufacturing hell on earth yarns that Nvidia is about to release a new Pascal GPU soon.

Nvidia puts more of its deep learning under the bonnet of cars
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Powered by Pascal

Nvidia is applying all that it knows about deep learning to enable autonomous vehicles.

Nvidia faces "favorable" GPU trends going into 2016
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Strong performance in 2015 due to gaming segment

According to a latest report from MKM Partners, Nvidia's target stock price should rise due to an increase in gameing segment revenue.

GDDR5, GDDR6 rule 2016 GPUs
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Thursday, 10 December 2015 12:28

GDDR5, GDDR6 rule 2016 GPUs


Exclusive: Highest end are HBM 2.0, GDDR6, GDDR5X

AMD over-hyped the new  High Bandwidth Memory standard and now the second generation HBM 2.0 is coming in 2016. However it looks like most of GPUs shipped in this year will still rely on the older GDDR5.