By Sean P. Aune |
NVIDIA has announced that excitement for its new Shield controller has spurred the company to make the device available for pre-orders beginning today. Earlier this week NVIDIA announced that the Shield controller would be available for pre-orders beginning on May 20, but thanks to consumer…
By Jon Rettinger |
The NVIDIA Shield just had its pricing and release announced on Tuesday, and already the new controller is on display here in San Francisco at Google I/O 2013. While we spent some time with the Shield back at CES 2013, at that time it was still…
By Joey Davidson |
NVIDIA’s Project SHIELD has moved from idea and prototype into official product form. Simply known as “SHIELD,” this new Android powered gaming device is set to launch next month. It will sell for $349. Starting May 20th, 2013, interested gamers will be able to pre-order…
By Brandon Russell |
NVIDIA on Tuesday unveiled its Tegra roadmap all the way through 2015, with the next two after Tegra 4 codenamed Logan and Parker. For now, it seems the company’s reference to Stark, which we saw all the way back in 2011, is nowhere to be…
By Sean P. Aune |
The 16GB Lenova Ideatab A2109A is a killer tablet, and we’re thrilled to have teamed up with the folks from NVIDIA to be able to give one away! With over 10,000 entries, one lucky person is walking away with this 16GB Lenova Ideatab A2109A, and…
By Brandon Russell |
NVIDIA is proud of its Tegra 4 chip, confidently claiming its the fastest around. After you see the company’s benchmarks, you can see why NVIDIA is so pleased with its accomplishment. But the competition isn’t afraid. Qualcomm says its latest Snapdragon creams anything NVIDIA has to offer.…
By Todd Haselton |
NVIDIA recently revealed the Tegra 4i, one of the members of its Tegra 4 family of mobile processors. We swung by the company’s stand at Mobile World Congress to try to get a closer look at the technology, and we were able to get a…
By Brandon Russell |
Nvidia’s Tegra 4i processor, formerly known as “Project Grey,” is the company’s new beefy processor with integrated 4G LTE connectivity. While you won’t find any of the devices at Mobile World Congress implementing the chip just yet, Nvidia does have a reference device to show,…
By Todd Haselton |
NVIDIA just announced that ZTE will be the first smartphone maker to offer its brand new Tegra 4 processor, not to be confused with the new Tegra 4i, and that the phone will make its debut in China during the first half of this year.…
By Todd Haselton |
NVIDIA just announced the latest member of its Tegra 4 family of mobile processors, the Tegra 4i. The processor was formerly codenamed “Project Grey” and is half the size of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800 chip. It’s equipped with 60 graphics processing cores, a quad-core CPU clocked…
By Brandon Russell |
One analyst believes Google will turn its back on NVIDIA and make nice with Qualcomm for the next Nexus 7. Pacific Crest analyst Michael McConnell on Thursday claimed the search giant will favor the Snapdragon S4 Pro because Qualcomm is willing to offer a banging deal,…
By Brandon Russell |
Nvidia’s Project Shield was easily the standout of this year’s CES, a nice change of pace from the unholy expensive TVs and connected appliances. While the handheld really promises to change the way people experience Android gaming, the more exciting aspect is the ability to…
By Adriana Lee |
Chip maker AMD has accused four former employees, now with Nvidia, of stealing trade secrets and other confidential files and handing them over to its competitor last year. AMD filed suit in Massachusetts claiming that former VP Robert Feldstein and managers Manoo Desai, Nicolas Kociuk…
By Todd Haselton |
NVIDIA’s quad-core Tegra 3 processor powers the current generation Microsoft Surface RT, so it seems like a natural fit for Microsoft to sign NVIDIA on again for the next-generation Surface. Digitimes expects NVIDIA to become a go-to player in the Surface RT market, and believes that…
By Todd Haselton |
NVIDIA’s Tegra 4 processor wasn’t exactly a secret, but it was one of the most exciting revealings at CES 2013. We’re super excited for the chip to make its way into smartphones and tablets later this year—and even the NVIDIA Project Shield gaming device—but it…
By Todd Haselton |
We brought a huge team to CES 2013 in Las Vegas to scour the show floor looking for the latest and greatest products that push the boundaries of technology. Remember, CES isn’t a show that’s focused on any single category. It’s not just about mobile,…
By Todd Haselton |
Wow. We just swung by NVIDIA and had a chance to check out the NVIDIA Shield, the company’s new Tegra 4-powered quad-core gaming device. Is it a controller? Is it a console? Neither, not really. It’s a device that runs pure Android and will allow you to…
By Jon Rettinger |
NVIDIA surprised everyone at CES 2013 with the unveiling of the Shield gaming controller and console. While it’s definitely different, and unlike anything else we’ve ever seen from the company, I’m just not sure exactly what niche it is meant to fill, and if it’s even one that need…
By Brandon Russell |
From what NVIDIA showed off on Sunday, the company’s new Project Shield is incredibly exciting. From a consumer standpoint, it essentially combines every dream criteria and combines them all into one neatly, tightly integrated package. And it’s got the company’s spanking new Tegra 4 chip,…
By Todd Haselton |
NVIDIA took the stage at CES 2013 and just unveiled a gaming controller with a Tegra 4 chip and a full 5-inch screen for gaming. The device is currently dubbed Project Shield. It’s basically a complete portable gaming platform with 5-8 hours of gameplay that’s…
By Todd Haselton |
NVIDIA just gave us a very quick peek at Dead Trigger 2 for Tegra-powered devices. The company didn’t say when it will launch, but basically used the demo to show off the power of its brand new Tegra 4 chip (we think, but we assume it will run on…
By Todd Haselton |
NVIDIA just announced at CES 2013 that its TegraZone portal for games that are enhanced by Tegra processors has been downloaded more than 6 million times. We can’t say we’re too surprised, given the large number of Tegra smartphones and tablets on the market, but…
By Todd Haselton |
Today, most cell phone cameras either leave the background overblown and out of focus, or the foreground dark and faded. HDR images, which take two shots and combine the images, typically solves that problem. But it’s slow. NVIDIA today announced a new technology as part…
By Todd Haselton |
NVIDIA just announced Tegra 4 at CES 2013 in Las Vegas. The processor has 72 GPU cores and is “the world’s first quad-core A15 processor, which is ARM’s new CPU architecture,” the firm explained. It also includes NVIDIA’s first 4G LTE modem. NVIDIA took out…
