Nvidia CEO Not Above Celebrating Intel's Misfortune [Memo]
A number of tech companies are rejoicing over the Federal Trade Commission’s complaint against Intel today, none more so than Nvidia. A top player in the market for graphics processing units, Nvidia...
View ArticleWeekend Update 12.19.09–Last-Minute Shopping Edition
Kara covered three Web companies this week, two with very 2.0 names and one about as Web 1.0 as it gets. BoomTown caught up with Mark Pincus of Zynga, the social-gaming juggernaut, right after the...
View ArticleNvidia CEO: Like iPad, "Magical" Android Tablets Will "Surprise and Delight"
Apple, Steve Jobs likes to say, works very hard to “surprise and delight” its customers with “magical” products. And so does Google, according to Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, who lauded the company’s...
View ArticleD@CES: What Happens to Twitter's Dick Costolo in Vegas Stays on ATD
After our successful D: Dive Into Mobile conference last week, the D: All Things Digital train keeps chugging away and is now headed to Las Vegas just after the new year. There, we will do a second D...
View ArticleA Phone That's a Beauty on the Outside–A Monster Inside
At Nvidia’s press conference today, CEO and co-founder Jen-Hsun Huang admitted this was going to be a promiscuous CES for the company. Nvidia, which builds tiny computer processors to help devices...
View ArticleD@CES Today: Twitter, Nvidia, Microsoft in the Vegas Spotlight!
First things first, for those emailing me frantically about getting into our D@CES onstage interview event later today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas: We’re sold out and have a very...
View ArticleNvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang Describes Mobile's Powerful Future at D@CES
All of those tablets rolling out this week means lots of opportunity for chipmaker Nvidia, which used to specialize in graphics, but is now looking to power a whole new class of mobile devices. CEO...
View ArticleCould a Settlement Between Intel and Nvidia Happen Today?
Something is definitely going on between Intel and Nvidia, and it’s possible that a settlement could be announced after the market closes today, sources said. [UPDATE: Yes, they settled, in a new $1.5...
View ArticleIntel Will Pay Nvidia $1.5 Billion to "Maintain Patent Peace"
Intel has agreed to pay Nvidia $1.5 billion to settle their long-simmering legal dispute that had been set to go before a Delaware Chancery Court in December. Intel will pay Nvidia in five annual...
View ArticleD@CES Highlights Video: Nvidia's Jen-Hsun Huang
Our next highlights video from our D@CES event last week is of Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang. The event, which we did in cooperation with the Consumer Electronics Show, was only three sessions in one...
View ArticleFull D@CES Interview Video: Nvidia's Jen-Hsun Huang
As promised, after posting highlights last week, here’s the full video from an interview with Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang at our D@CES event at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The chipmaker...
View ArticleAiming to Power Ever More Complex Graphics, Nvidia Plans Quad-Core Mobile...
Chipmaker Nvidia plans this year to introduce a four-core processor, code-named Project Kal-El, that should offer roughly five times the processing power of its existing Tegra chip and, what it says,...
View ArticleYour Next Laptop May Not Be a MacBook Air, But It Will Probably Look Like One
It might not run Mac OS X or the sport the Apple brand, but chances are your next laptop will look a lot like the MacBook Air. This according to Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, who thinks the future of...
View ArticleNvidia's Quad-Core Mobile Chip Makes Its Debut–On YouTube
Ahead of this week’s Computex trade show in Taiwan, Nvidia is showing off its forthcoming quad-core mobile chip which is slated to arrive on phones and tablets later this year. In a video posted to...
View ArticleEverybody Chill! The Nvidia-Microsoft Pact Is Actually 11 Years Old.
Information Week is reporting a peculiar story about a deal between the graphics chip maker Nvidia and software giant Microsoft that effectively gives Redmond the right to match any offer for a stake...
View ArticleAnd So the AsiaD Speakers Begin: Google, Alibaba, Twitter, Asus, Nvidia and...
No rest for the weary D conference producers! Which would be Walt Mossberg and me, since we are now hard at work — after a very successful ninth D: All Things Digital — on our newest event: AsiaD. An...
View ArticleMore AsiaD Speakers: Sony, Google+, Microsoft, Hollywood, Huawei and Hot SV...
After our grand tour of Asia last week — with stops in Korea and Japan — it seems like a perfect time to update the speaker list for our upcoming AsiaD conference in Hong Kong in October. As Walt...
View ArticleEven More AsiaD Speakers: Yahoo's Yang, HTC's Wang, Samsung's Hong and More!
With AsiaD just a little over a month away, Walt Mossberg and I are adding even more speakers to the list, for what we hope will be an awesome event in Hong Kong. Taking place from Oct. 19 to 21, the...
View ArticleFinal AsiaD Speakers: Apple's Phil Schiller and Former VP Al Gore
And then there was Schiller and Gore. That would be Apple’s SVP of worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller and former Vice President Al Gore, who round out the stellar list of speakers at our...
View ArticleThe Globalization of D: All Things Digital Begins Now
And so our international expansion of D: All Thing Digital starts and we could not be more proud that it begins here in Hong Kong, with AsiaD. So why Asia? It seemed the most obvious choice for us, as...
View ArticleNvidia's Jen-Hsun Huang Talks Quad-Core and Windows 8 at AsiaD
An early pioneer in graphics chips, Nvidia now finds its processors at the heart of smartphones, tablets and, soon, PCs. Overseeing the expansion is the company’s dynamic leader Jen-Hsun Huang, who...
View ArticleJen-Hsun Huang: Highlights From AsiaD (Video)
Nvidia president and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang joined All Things Digital’s Walt Mossberg on the AsiaD stage today to talk about processors for post-PC devices and the Tegra 2, the world’s first dual-core...
View ArticleNvidia's Quad-Core Tegra 3 Ready, Asus' Transformer Prime Almost Ready
For those who have been waiting for a mobile device with a quad-core chip, the wait is over. Well, almost over. Nvidia is announcing on Wednesday that it is ready with its Tegra 3 chip, previously...
View ArticleNvidia Earnings, Revenue Nudge Past Estimates on Strong Graphics and Mobile...
Nvidia on Thursday reported quarterly earnings that were just ahead of what analysts were expecting. The chipmaker said it earned $178.3 million, or 29 cents per share, on revenue of $1.07 billion for...
View ArticleNvidia’s Jen-Hsun Huang on Superman Quad-Core Chip, Microsoft and Apple: The...
We are now posting the full videos from the recent AsiaD conference, which took place in Hong Kong in October. We’re following the schedule of the actual event. Up now: Nvidia’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang. An...
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