PC market is slowing, but Nvidia beats results as it expands to new platforms
Graphics chip maker Nvidia reported earnings for its fourth fiscal quarter that beat Wall Street’s expectations. Nvidia’s results are a bellwether for the PC...
Oculus and Alienware cofounders geek out about taking VR to the masses
When Frank Azor, the cofounder of Dell’s Alienware gamer PC division and the general manager of XPS, saw a demo of Oculus VR’s virtual...
AMD’s graphics guru describes the march to full graphics immersion with 16K screens
When Advanced Micro Devices created its own stand-alone graphics division, Radeon Technologies Group, and crafted a new brand, Polaris, for its upcoming graphics architecture,...
CEO Lisa Su expects company watchers to say ‘AMD is back’ in 2016
Advanced Micro Devices has had a few tough years as it struggles to stay afloat financially and compete with Intel, the world’s biggest chip...
Nvidia blames Apple for bug that exposes porn browsing in Chrome’s incognito mode
If you use Google Chrome’s incognito mode to hide what you browse (ahem, porn), this might pique your interest. University of Toronto engineering student...
How virtual reality gaming will change the world in 2016
The new generation of VR is ready to deliver on promises. 2016 will see the launch of three new VR systems, and this time around we're pretty sure that the technology is indeed up to the task.
Why 2016 will see the birth of a new generation of gaming
Netflix launched its video streaming service in 2007, while Spotify first went public in 2008, and since then streaming has been on the up and up, except in one area: games.
To handle VR graphics, gaming PCs have to be 7 times more powerful
The folks at Nvidia, the world’s largest maker of stand-alone graphics chips, are good at numbers. So I talked to them recently about their...
Nvidia’s Shield gaming tablet is one of the first to get Android Marshmallow
Following last month’s rerelease of Nvidia’s Android gaming tablet, the company has begun upgrading the 8-inch Shield K1 slate from Lollipop to Marshmallow. The device is for...
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang says that VR’s 250 startups remind him of the dawn of graphics chips
We’ve seen the craze around virtual reality before, like when the 3D graphics chip industry was born in the 1990s. Back then, dozens of...