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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

CIO Business Intelligence

Its founders spotted that generating 3D graphics in video games—then a fast-growing market—placed highly repetitive, math-intensive demands on PC central processing units (CPUs). Intel makes more graphics chips, though, because most of its CPUs ship with the company’s own integrated graphics silicon.)

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How Nvidia beat everyone else in the AI race

Vox

Nvidia was founded to design a specific kind of chip called a graphics card — also commonly called a GPU (graphics processing unit) — that enables the output of fancy 3D visuals on the computer screen. That acquisition was pretty clearly intended to get control over a software architecture that most of the industry relied on,” says Peinert.

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Apple says new Arm-based M1 chip offers the ‘longest battery life ever in a Mac’

The Verge

In addition, the M1 processor has a 16-core Neural Engine, a universal memory architecture, an “Apple-designed Thunderbolt controller with support for USB 4,” an image signal processor, media encode and decode engines, and a host of security features. These include hardware-verified secure boot, encryption, and runtime protections.

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July 2018 Server StorageIO Data Infrastructure Update Newsletter

Storage IO Blog

July 2018 Server StorageIO Data Infrastructure Update Newsletter Volume 18, Issue 7 (July 2018) Hello and welcome to the July 2018 Server StorageIO Data Infrastructure Update Newsletter. In cased you missed it, the June 2018 Server StorageIO Data Infrastructure Update Newsletter can be viewed here ( HTML and PDF).

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More cores, more power: Capabilities of multicore processing

Dataconomy

This means that you can run your data analysis program while streaming music, browsing the internet, and even playing a video game, all without slowing down your computer. This is particularly useful for applications that require a lot of processing power, such as video editing, 3D rendering, and gaming.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

With a PhD in Planning and Innovation Studies, and a Master’s degree in Architecture, Urban Design and Urban Planning, Karuri-Sebina has a sound knowledge base for her work as Executive Manager of programs at the South African Cities Network. Bell is currently Director of the 3A Institute.

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