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Graphics processing unit, or GPU, is a specialized chip that provides 2D or 3D images. Display adapters contain one or more GPUs to allow fast graphics rendering.

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2014-06-03	Wearables, IoT-ready GPUs shrink silicon size The GPUs are designed to offload and reduce system resources including complete UI/composition and display controller integration, minimal CPU overhead, and bandwidth modulation.
2013-05-21	Vivante's GPUs ready for Google TV Android 4.2.2 update The Vivante GC1000 IP cores are integrated into the Marvell ARMADA 1500 SOC provided on the Google TV platform and perform perform complex computational processing for the latest 3D graphics.
2012-06-20	UK, Thai researchers use Tesla GPUs to combat H1N1 Nvidia's GPUs play an integral role in a research that shed new light on prevention of future epidemics of H1N1 influenza virus.
2009-11-19	Tesla GPUs enable low-cost parallel computing Nvidia's new Telsa GPUs deliver the same performance as CPU-based clusters at a tenth of the cost, and one-twentieth the power.
2006-03-31	Synopsys' DFT MAX reduces test costs on Nvidia GPUs Synopsys announced that Nvidia has adopted Synopsys' DFT MAX Test Synthesis with Adaptive Scan technology for its next-generation graphics processor chips.
2009-09-21	Step-down controller tailored for Nvidia GPUs From Maxim Integrated Products comes a single-phase, step-down controller for powering Nvidia GPUs.
2011-04-12	Shanghai electronics firm licenses ARM CPUs, GPUs ARM has licensed a series of CPU and GPU IP cores to Shanghai InfoTM, which will in turn use these licenses to provide 3D graphics in its line of mobile computing devices.
2014-12-08	Qualcomm takes biggest chunk in mobile GPUs pie Qualcomm is the leader in mobile graphics cores, a market expected to see shifts among other players as China's market for smartphones and tablets heats up.
2005-06-01	Programming GPUs for general computing GPU-based computing is conceptually straightforward, and a variety of high-level languages and software tools can simplify programming.
2011-11-08	Power-efficiency, GPUs push exascale computing An analyst opines that despite advances in computer modeling, "the drive for faster, smaller, cheaper systems remains strong."
2006-03-30	Nvidia's new GPUs target mainstream market Nvidia expanded its GeForce 7 Series with two "aggressively-priced" graphics processing units for the mainstream market.
2012-09-18	NVIDIA's low cost Kepler-based Gaming GPUs NVIDIA said gamers will enjoy at least 4 times better performance with GeForce GTX 660 and GeForce GTX 650
2008-02-28	Nvidia scientist sees GPUs in future supercomputers By 2012, three of the top five supercomputers in the world will have GPUs using parallel computing applications to crunch numbers at a clip that's not possible on standard CPU-only set-ups, predicts David Kirk, Nvidia chief scientist.
2012-04-04	Nvidia rolls GPUs based on Kepler architecture The GeForce GTX 680 GPU features the Nvidia GPU Boost technology that adjusts GPU speeds to maximize gaming performance while touting lower levels of power consumption.
2003-10-28	Nvidia releases GPUs for next-gen gaming systems Nvidia Corp. has introduced its GeForce FX 5950 Ultra and the GeForce FX 5700 series of GPUs that deliver ultra-high system performance.
2005-01-21	Nvidia mobile GPUs support Intel Centrino platform Nvidia Corp., a provider of graphics and digital media processors, announced that its GeForce Go 6 mobile GPU series supports the latest Intel Centrino mobile platform (codenamed Sonoma), taking full advantage of the new, improved PCI Express architecture.
2006-04-26	Nvidia launches more GPUs Nvidia introduced six new Quadro FX graphics processing units for high-end, mid-range and entry-level professionals.
2013-04-10	Nvidia GPUs offer notebook performance boost Three technologies offered by the GPUs aim to save battery life, enhance performance and enrich the visual experience of notebooks.
2004-05-14	Nvidia GPUs make desktop PCs into digital entertainment centers Nvidia's latest GPU will enable consumers to transform their desktop PCs into digital entertainment centers.
2003-10-23	Nvidia GPUs integrated into Toshiba notebooks Nvidia Corp. announced that the company's GeForce FX Go series of graphics processing units has been selected for five new notebooks in the Toshiba series.
2002-02-12	NVIDIA GPUs increase performance by four times NVIDIA has unveiled the GeForce4 family of GPUs, for the desktop PCs, Macs and notebook computers.
2012-06-19	Nvidia GPUs drive Fujitsu servers Nvidia's Tesla GPUs are are now available in Fujitsu's Primergy CX400 S1 servers are leveraging Nvidia's Tesla GPUs to bring GPU-accelerated computing to customers.
2010-01-12	Nvidia GPUs drive Audi navigation, entertainment The Audi 2010 cars use Nvidia GPUs to generate all visual imagery for the navigation and entertainment systems.
2005-07-18	Mapping computational concepts to GPUs Modern graphics processing units have many programmable processors that compute stream elements in parallel
2014-11-04	Interconnected MIPS, GPUs on Imagination's horizon Imagination Technologies is looking to develop technology that would combine its latest multi-core MIPS processors with large arrays of its PowerVR graphics processors (GPUs).
2010-05-28	Intel moves further away from discrete GPUs Intel has all but abandoned plans to release a high-performance stand-alone graphics processor, but will continue to develop multicore Larrabee architecture for the HPC market.
2012-10-17	Imagination Technologies prepping GPUs for 28nm Imagination is working with EDA tool and library developers as well as foundries to help optimise the physical layout of its GPUs.
2014-05-12	High-end GPUs drive up Nvidia's revenue The chip maker's revenues ascended 75 per cent from last year, citing a strong demand for its high-end GPUs as the business pace in the PC gaming segment strengthens.
2005-06-01	GPUs tapped for general computing Modern GPUs allow substantial user programmability that lets it be retasked for more general-purpose computations.
2007-06-25	GPUs gives Teraflop-computing capacity to PCs Nvidia will start releasing next month a new class of processors that boost the performance of supercomputing environments by offloading trillions of arithmetic calculations per second.