Nvidia launches world's first `GPU'. nvidia launches worlds first gpu. Nvidia Corp. has unveiled a chip it is hailing as the world's first graphics processing unit, or GPU. Promising an order-of-magnitude increase in geometry processing power, dynamic lighting and real-time environment reflection capabilities, Nvidia says its new GeForce 256 GPU will enable a whole new level of interactive content not previously possible. PCs using the GeFore 256 GPU will be able to synthesize extremely realistic environments, Nvidia officials claim, with objects that behave according to complex physics and intelligent characters with lifelike personalities. The GPU is the first 256-bit 3D processor to integrate a geometry transform engine, a dynamic lighting engine, a 4-pixel rendering pipeline, and Microsoft's DirectX 7.0 features, including cube environment mapping, projective textures and vertex blending....

Nvidia unveils two more GeForce2 MX GPUs. nvidia unveils two more geforce2 mx gpus. In a related story, Nvidia's rival ATI Technologies says it is making up lost ground in the GPU market....

NVIDIA just let us know about its new Quadro2 Go, a graphics processing unit (GPU) that the company says will allow engineers, animators, and technical professionals to run their high-end apps on a laptop. The GPU gives you a transform and lighting engine, accelerated antialiased lines, accelerated two-sided lighting, OpenGL overlay support, and optimized window memory management....

NVIDIA Announces Power Saving for Mobile GPUs. nvidia announces power saving for mobile gpus. Then, NVIDIA pulled the Quadro2 Go GPU for mobile workstations out of its back pocket and ATI countered with its own hotrod RADEON 7500 mobile processor. NVIDIA says that PowerMizer enables features already built into NVIDIA's GeForce2 Go mobile GPUs and can reduce system-level power consumption by reducing CPU load and saving power within the graphics subsystem. PowerMizer technology will be featured in notebooks powered by NVIDIA's GeForce2 Go, Quadro2 Go, and future mobile GPUs....

COMDEX: NVIDIA's NV17M Mobile GPU. comdex nvidias nv17m mobile gpu. Over at Comdex, where Omid and Dave are scouring the show floor between losing their shirts at the gaming tables, NVIDIA announced yet another battery-saving chip (sorry, I mean mobile GPU) that is attempt to keep you gaming or working from New York to Paris. The new mobile GPU is code-named the NV17M and includes NVIDIA's PowerMizer Technology, integrated Video Processing Engine (VPE), and antialiasing. It's also smaller than your typical laptop GPU, squeezing an AGP graphics subsystem - including the GPU core and frame buffer up to 64MB - into a space previously held by the GPU alone. NVIDIA's new mobile GPUs will be found in carry-on computers in early 2002. ...