Tech Wizard

In February Nvidia had launched some information about its Mobile HD platform for handheld devices like PDA’s etc. A recent product briefing by Dailytech further revealed that APX 2500 has a power consumption of only 50mw which allows the chip to run upto 10 hours with a single battery charge, thus making APX 2500 ideal for handheld devices. Nvidia states that the first devices to use the APX 2500 platform will be launched within this year.

Nvidia says that APX 2500 is a single chip processor whose size is less than a dime and the APX 2500 chip will include an ARM 11 core processor with a maximum speed of 750MHz, a Geforce based GPU, a high definition Audio and Video processor, memory and an Input/Output system all within the same package. Though APX 2500 is not bigger than a dime, APX 2500 is capable of running HD videos through HDMI. APX 2500 is stated to deliver high definition video content upto 720p in H.264, Mpeg and VC-1 formats. The Geforce GPU inside APX 2500 is capable of producing 3D graphics with features like programmable pixel shader, vertex and lighting and sampled Anti Aliasing.

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Last Year nVidia released there not so successful chipset 590 series for Intel Core 2 Duo Series of Lineup.The chipset was a very poor overclocker but had many new features and one of them was nVidia’s Linkboost technology.In this technology if the motherboard finds 2 7900GTX, then the frequency of both graphic interfaces is automatically set from default 100 MHz to 125 MHz, and simultaneously the frequency of system bus HT between chipset bridges increases from 200 to 250 MHz. This solution ensures a increase in the capacity by 25% (theoretically) and it can give a certain performance gain.

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Nvidia has announced the ‘Nvidia Windows Vista Competition‘ to design Gadgets for Microsoft Windows Vista. Entries to the competition will be accepted till May 24th.

To enter the competition, go to http://www.nvidia.in/object/vista_contest_in.html, take a short quiz, and upload your Windows Vista Gadget. You could well be the winner of Nvidia GeForce graphics cards and other goodies.

For information about building your Windows Vista Gadget, go to http://microsoftgadgets.com.

Windows Vista Gadgets are mini-applications that are written in html and JavaScript, and can be designed to do just about anything.

To view existing Windows Vista gadgets uploaded by people across the globe, visit http://gallery.live.com/.

The ‘Nvidia Windows Vista Competition’ will be judged by representatives from Nvidia and Microsoft. The deciding parameters will be usability, links, design, and use of Nvidia and Microsoft elements. Winners will be declared on May 31st.

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