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New Nvidia Chip Steps Closer to Supercomputing in the PC

SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 8 — A $90 million supercomputer made for nuclear weapons simulation cannot yet be rivaled by a single PC chip for a serious video gamer. But the gap is closing quickly.

Indeed, a new breed of consumer-oriented graphics chips have roughly the brute computing processing power of the world’s fastest [...]

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Broadcom claims first universal DVD chip

SAN FRANCISCO — Consumer and communications chip supplier Broadcom Corp. Thurs. (Nov. 9) introduced what the company labeled the first single-chip solution to support both Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD standards.The battle between Blu-ray and HD-DVD, competing next-generation DVD standards with powerful backers, has been billed as the next VHS versus Betamax in some corners. [...]

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