Video Processors Archive

  • Wake me up when the circuit bends: Inside American Idiot on Broadway

    Wake me up when the circuit bends: Inside American Idiot on Broadway

    Last week I walked through the set of American Idiot, a new broadway musical featuring the songs of the skiffle band, Green Day. I’m not big on musical theatre – I was never given even a chorus part in high school and ended up doing crew, which was much more fun, so maybe it’s sour [...]

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  • Zune HD, powered by Nvidia’s Tegra

    Zune HD, powered by Nvidia’s Tegra

    There's a reason why the Zune HD's interface moves so smoothly. Powering the device is the Nvidia Tegra, which Nvidia recently described as an “an entire computer-on-a-chip,” and one with “eight separate processors, including: a GPU, two video processors, and audio processor, two ARM core processor and more.” (That “and more” bit is a bit ambiguous for my liking, but what are you gonna do?) In any event, the Zune HD looks to have some serious computational power going for it. WILL IT BE AN IPOD KILLER?

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  • We Ask: What is Tegra and why does it matter?

    We Ask: What is Tegra and why does it matter?

    We’ve been talking about Nvidia’s Tegra on CG here and there, but not very many people know exactly what it is. Sure, it’s a tiny mobile computer, but how does it work and where did it come from? Where can we find it and why is it better than Intel’s Atom? We asked Nvidia this and more.

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