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The next Geforce doesn’t use HBM 2
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Tuesday, 13 June 2017 10:46

The next Geforce doesn’t use HBM 2


Too early for this memory

Volta is out for artificial intelligence, machine learning applications and it will be shipping in DGX 1 systems, mainly for deep learning and AI. The next Geforce will be a  completely separate chip. 

Nvidia announces DGX Station with four Volta V100s
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A watercooled desktop workstation equivalent to 400 CPUs

On Wednesday, Nvidia took the wraps off an interesting AI research product that packs the horsepower of a traditional server rack within the economical confines of a traditional desktop PC chassis.

Nvidia creates AI supercomputer with Volta-based DGX-1
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Eight Tesla V100 accelerators equivalent to 800 desktop CPUs

Nvidia had quite a few announcements packed into a single GTC keynote this year, but among the more performance-oriented of them includes a refreshed DGX-1 supercomputer powered by eight Volta-based Tesla V100 GPUs.

Nvidia to showcase Volta in early May
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Wednesday, 26 April 2017 11:41

Nvidia to showcase Volta in early May


GP100 successor

Nvidia is quite happy with the performance of its Geforce GTX 1080 Ti and the new Titan Xp cards, but it seems that it plans to tell us a bit more about the Volta. 

Volta expected to outperform AMD's Radeon RX Vega
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But will it be too late?

Rumours are starting to come in that Nvidia’s coming Volta will give AMD's Radeon RX Vega a good kicking thanks to Taiwan Semiconductor’s 12 nm fabrication process over Vega's 14 nm.

Volta might get a die shrink after all
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Thursday, 26 January 2017 13:23

Volta might get a die shrink after all


TSMC’s 12nm named and shamed


There have been lots of rumours about what transistor lithography Nvidia will be giving their next-gen Volta graphics cards, but it is starting to look like it is tapping TSMC its “new” 12nm process.

Nvidia is finally not just a GPU company
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Saturday, 12 November 2016 11:15

Nvidia is finally not just a GPU company


There is more to life than pixels

Nvidia just announced its fiscal Q3 2017 (not a typo Ed.) and the company reported record revenue of $2 billion, up 54 percent from a year ago. This is finally proof that Nvidia is more than a GPU outfit, as it finally expanded beyond its core business - gaming and professional graphics.

Tesla model 3 has Nvidia Drive PX2
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Monday, 31 October 2016 11:29

Tesla model 3 has Nvidia Drive PX2

Xavier is the future of all models

A few days ago, Nvidia announced that its highly anticipated Tesla model 3 comes with Nvidia Drive PX2 hardware and that the car will have all it needs for complete autonomous self-driving. 

Nvidia Volta gets 16nm FinFET treatment
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Thursday, 14 July 2016 13:26

Nvidia Volta gets 16nm FinFET treatment


While Vega sticks with 14nm

A little birdie told us that Nvidia is giving its Volta the 16nm FinFET treatment. This product uses stacked DRAM too so it looks like the whole thing will be pretty bleeding edge.

Nvidia Pascal comes in 2016
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Tuesday, 17 March 2015 18:40

Nvidia Pascal comes in 2016


GTC 2015: Volta back in roadmap, due in 2018

Pascal is Nvidia’s next generation architecture and it is coming after Maxwell of course. The company says it will launch next year, but details are still sketchy.