Nvidia spent 40 million dollars for replacement of faulty graphic chips

The Manufacturer of video cards Nvidia, which the last financial year has ended on January, 25th, has spent for replacement of the rejected chips with weak isolation of 43,6 million US dollars. About it writes PC World. In total in July, 2008 Nvidia has reserved on additional guarantee cases and replacement of the rejected chips of 196 million dollars. Thus, not spent there are 78 percent of this sum. The part of failures Nvidia managed to be prevented. The company has let out a patch which forces to work more actively fans of laptops. It allows to cool more effectively a videosystem overheating in usual conditions. Nvidia not for the first time faces marriage in the chips. Last time on failures was informed by owners Apple MacBook Pro 17 "in the beginning of March. At them more powerful of two established videosystems overheated Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT.

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New Intel chipset for Atom processors cannot work with Blu-ray

The new Intel GN40 chipset intended for use with processor Atom, will not support HD-video which have been written down on disks Blu-ray, informs Fudzilla referring to the statement of representatives Intel. In Intel underline that the chipset can work as video of a high definition with the permission 1080р. However it concerns, for example, translations on the Internet, but not to films on disks Blu-ray. The matter is that for playing of the last it is required more resources. Earlier representatives Intel declared that GN40 will allow to work from HD-video. However they did not specify, about what video of the permission there is a speech, also was not informed and on, whether can GN40 work with disks Blu-ray. One of the basic competitors GN40 is platform Nvidia Ion. According to Nvidia, it supports as reproduction of video of a high definition with the permission 1080р, and disks Blu-ray.

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The first chip for high-grade trace of beams

Company Caustic Graphics has developed the graphic chip which supports technology of trace of the beams, allowing to do the image in games and the programs working with a three-dimensional drawing, by much more realistic. About it writes The Wall Street Journal. Affirms that the new chip accelerates three-dimensional scenes the usual central processor or a video card in twenty times. In 2010 Caustic is going to increase computing capacity of the chips still ten times. Trace of beams means the analysis of passage of rays of light through a modelled scene. For this purpose extensively from the observer shoot millions beams to which should be reflected, to go out or depart in anywhere. Got to an eye of the observer beams form images. Application of trace of beams demands huge volumes of calculations. High-grade graphic decisions while only are developed for trace of beams. Over it actively works Intel, whose first discrete video card Larrabee with support of this technology will appear not earlier than the end of 2009. The foreign companies also managed to add support of trace of beams in video cards AMD. Caustic Graphics it is based by three former engineers Apple one of which participated in working out of a graphic subsystem iPhone and iPod. Now the company has received financing for the sum of 11 million dollars.

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