Nvida Updates Its GPU Roadmap at GTC 2013
At GTC 2013, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang outlined a future where "mobile, desktop and supercomputer technologies intersect in powerful and surprising ways".
At this year's GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia's CEO outlined the company's roadmap for desktop and mobile platforms and described how "GPUs are already finding their way into applications that were undreamed of a decade ago".
He also noted that last year's Kepler GPU architecture has been a "runaway hit for gamers" and underpins a "new generation of hyper-efficient supercomputers" including the GeForce GTX Titan. The roadmap aims to "put the efficiency and speed of our massively-parallel GPU architectures into an ever-broader array of devices" ranging from mobile to supercomputer.
Starting with Nvidia's desktop GPUs, Maxwell will offer unified virtual memory, providing CPUs with access to the speedy memory built into GPUs and vice versa. Following on from Maxwell will be Volta that introduces the idea of 'stacked DRAM' that piles memory modules directly atop the GPU cores and gives the GPUs access to a bandwidth of 1 TB/s or enough to move a full Blu-ray disc of content in 0.02 seconds.
With regards to mobile processors, Logan will pair ARM based mobile processors with Kepler GPUs and provide mobile devices with access to technologies such as PhysX, CUDA 5 and OpenGL 4.3. The Parker architecture will combine 64-bit ARM CPU cores with the next generation Maxwell GPU to provide server-esque functionality including the ability to "gulp down big chunks of data".

We've been impressed by the content and ambitiousness of the GTC presentation and are looking forward to both Nvidia's upcoming architectures and perhaps getting our hands on Jen-Hsun Huang's jacket! For a play-by-play from the keynote, check out our liveblog!


I think its Nvidia.
the jacket was the real highlight!
nvidia doesn't have a capable or existent cpu to compete against hsa. build the cpu first, brag later.
the jacket was the real highlight!
nvidia doesn't have a capable or existent cpu to compete against hsa. build the cpu first, brag later.
The mobile side of things likes interesting but not relevant to me.
I think its Nvidia.
HSA vs Nividia's version vs Intel's CPU brute force...
Hm...
When on sale its not bad. I mean for a small bit more, you get the 7850(this thing rapes the 650 ti).
The card seems to fit right into its price range.
I do not think Intel will let that happen.
"NVIDIA also showcased an mITX-like board called Kayla, which features a Tegra 3 SoC and a low power Kepler GPU, presumably from Logan."
For those of you who watch the Xmen origins movie for wolverine she was his wife in the movie
"Kayla Silverfox was a mutant with the ability to persuade anyone she touched into doing what she wanted. Her sister is Emma Frost. After Logan left the Team X project and went back to Canada, Silverfox was tasked with keeping an eye on him. During their six years they resided together in a cabin high in the mountains, she manipulated him into a state of complacency with her power, calming him though the nightmares of the past. Kayla told him about a spirit who was tricked into being parted forever from his lover, the Moon. The spirit, whose name translated to 'Wolverine', was subsequently forced to look at the Moon forever and never be with her again. Kayla and Victor Creed faked her murder with hydrochlorothiazide for William Stryker so he could trick Logan into participating in his Weapon X project. When Logan was about to get his skeleton injected with adamantium, he asked for dogtags bearing the name "Wolverine", inspired by Silver Fox"
So since this is an off product supporting Logan it makes perfect sense to use his former wife as the name.
1) how could they? If I am not mistaken AMD, Intel, and IBM are the only companies with access to the tech. AMD and Intel will not let in another competitor, and IBM's x86 stuff is too dated to be of any use
2) why would they? I can't think of an Nvidia product that really needs it. They have ARM for light weight stuff, and they have their GPU tech running more and more of the server space. These are 2 industries that are seeing tremendous growth right now, and Nvidia is still a relatively small company. They would have to make a lot of changes in order to add essentially a 3rd in-house company.
Volta, on the other hand, will eliminate a bottleneck that has crippled poorly architected and low-end GPU's: memory bandwidth. Higher memory bandwidth in AMD's cards has given them better performance scaling as anti-aliasing gets more complicated, and as screen resolutions go up (and as monitors are added).
Maxwell's bit about CPU access to the GPU's discrete RAM is probably more about CUDA/OpenCL software's increasing need to move code blocks back and forth more easily, and less about software using GPU RAM as more system ram. There's no point. Crossing the PCI-e bus cuts out any benefit you may derive except for sheer quantity available to write to.
maybe nVidia
Just no.
Both Forbes and Wikipedia has it as Nvidia.
You are being confused with the company's logo.
Intel? AMD owns x86..... Intel has to pay for a license.
This is seriously incorrect. Intel developed the first x86 processor with the 8086 in 1978 and as such x86 is Intel's original architecture. Now eventually AMD was given legal right to manufacture their own x86 chips to compete with Intel, however, what you're confusing is AMD's rights to the x86-64 architecture extension that they developed.
I think nebun's comment was more about the missing 'i' than the capitalization.
Both Forbes and Wikipedia are wrong.
The registered trademark is NVIDIA®
Look at their web site and their product literature.