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Microsoft has announced the range of editions planned for Windows 8, which is now the official name (previously it was a code name). Here is what I found interesting. Windows on Arm (WOA) is now called Windows RT and ships with Office included. However, Outlook is not included, confirming my suspicion that Outlook may gradually …continue reading Windows 8 to be called Windows 8, no Outlook on ARM I spoke to Dr Steve Scott, NVIDIA’s CTO for Tesla, at the end of the GPU Technology Conference which has just finished here in Beijing. In the closing session, Scott talked about the future of NVIDIA’s GPU computing chips. NVIDIA releases a new generation of graphics chips every two years: 2008 Tesla 2010 Fermi 2012 …continue reading NVIDIA plans to merge CPU and GPU – eventually An interview with Paul Amsellem, new boss at Nokia France, includes this remark: Et en juin 2012, nous aurons une tablette fonctionnant sous Windows 8 which even my schoolboy French can translate: and in June 2012 we will have a tablet running Windows 8 Now, that is sooner than I had expected based on …continue reading Windows 8 Tablet in June 2012? If so, I am betting ARM not Intel x86 Smartphone power has made another jump forward with the announcement at CES in Las Vegas of new devices built on NVIDIA’s new Tegra 2 package – a System on a Chip (SoC) that includes dual-core CPU, GPU, and additional support for HD video encoding and decoding, audio, imaging, USB, PCIe and more: The CPU …continue reading NVIDIA Tegra 2: amazing mobile power that hints at the future of client computing At CES in Las Vegas today NVIDIA’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced the company’s first CPU: Project Denver. This is a partnership with ARM, to create “a full custom processor” targeting “high performance computing – servers, PCs, super-computers, cloud computing.” NVIDIA will still licence ARM processors for mobile computing. Since ARM has in the past focused …continue reading NVIDIA’s first CPU, Project Denver, aims to bring ARM to desktops and servers Microsoft announced today at CES in Las Vegas that the next version of Windows will run on ARM as well as Intel CPUs. But why? The reason is that ARM CPUs have huge momentum in mobile computing, thanks to their low power consumption. Microsoft wants Windows to support System on a Chip (SoC) architectures such …continue reading Windows 8 will run on ARM processors – a natural home for Silverlight? NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsung Huang spoke to the press at the GPU Technology Conference and I took the opportunity to ask some questions. I asked for his views on the cloud as a supercomputer and whether that would impact the need for local supercomputers of the kind GPU computing enables. Although we expect more and …continue reading NVIDIA CEO on the spot: explains Fermi delays, CUDA vs OpenCL, rise of the tablet |
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