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SANTA CLARA, CA—OCTOBER 16, 2008—NVIDIA today introduced its new
accelerator for Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 software, the NVIDIA® Quadro®
CX. This new GPU provides creative professionals with a faster, better,
more reliable way to maximize their creativity. Quadro CX was
architected to deliver the best performance for the new GPU-optimized
features of Adobe Creative Suite 4.

“Adobe is at the forefront of the Visual Computing Revolution,” said
Dan Vivoli, executive vice president of marketing at NVDIA. “CS4’s GPU
features are sending shockwaves through the creative industry.”

“Photoshop users are always looking for maximum performance, and we
recognized that tapping into the power of the GPU is one way to give it
to them,” said Kevin Connor, vice president of product management for
Professional Digital Imaging at Adobe. “Thanks to NVIDIA’s efforts to
optimize the Quadro CX product for CS4, users can be assured of a
dramatically fast and fluid experience on tasks such as panning,
zooming, and rotating large images as well as manipulating 3D content.”

NVIDIA specifically designed and optimized the Quadro CX to enhance
the performance of Adobe Creative Suite 4 product line and meet the
unique needs of the Creative Suite 4 professional. Adding NVIDIA Quadro
CX to the pipeline gives creative professionals a faster, better, and
more reliable experience. With NVIDIA Quadro CX users can encode H.264
videos at lightning-fast speeds with the NVIDIA CUDAâ„¢-enabled plug-in
for Adobe Premiere® Pro CS4, RapiHD™ from Elemental Technologies;
accelerate rendering time for advanced effects; and accurately preview
what deliverables will look like with 30-bit color or uncompressed
10-bit/12-bit SDI before final outputi.

Adobe Creative Suite 4 software now has added optimization to take
advantage of GPU technology, including the parallel processing
capability in the Quadro CX GPU. These enhancements accelerate a number
of visually intensive operations, including:

Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 uses the NVIDIA Quadro CX GPU to bring
unprecedented fluidity to image navigation. The GPU enables real-time
image rotation, zooming, and panning, and makes changes to the view
instantaneous and smooth. Adobe Photoshop CS4 also taps the GPU for
on-screen compositing of both 2D and 3D content, ensuring smoothly
anti-aliased results regardless of zoom level. Brush resizing and
brushstroke preview, 3D movement, high-dynamic-range tone mapping, and
color conversion are also accelerated by the GPU.

Adobe After Effects® CS4 now has added optimization features to
accelerate a variety of creative effects, making it easier than ever to
add graphics and visual effects to video, which allows the artist to
quickly move from concept to final product and speeds up the workflow.
Effects accelerated include depth of field, bilateral blur effects,
turbulent noise such as flowing water or waving flags, and cartoon
effects. NVIDIA Quadro CX takes advantages of these workflow
enhancements.

Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 can take advantage of Quadro CX to accelerate
high-quality video effects such as motion, opacity, color, and image
distortion. Quadro CX also enables faster editing of multiple
high-definition video streams and graphic overlays and provides a
variety of video output choices for high-quality preview, including
DisplayPort, component TV, or uncompressed 10-bit or 12-bit SDI.

NVIDIA Quadro CX is available starting today, from leading resellers,
e-tailers, and retailers, for $1,999 USD. For more information on
NVIDIA Quadro and the new Quadro CX, please visit:
www.nvidia.com/quadrocx.

 

As Intel officially unveiled its six-core “Dunnington” Xeon 7400
processor Monday, Unisys rolled out servers boasting up to 96
cores—with a catch.

As expected, Intel launched the Dunnington chip for high-end servers, the company’s first six-core processor and last of its Penryn-class
chips. Penryn will be followed by the Nehalem microarchitecture, due to
appear initially as the Core i7 processor in the fourth quarter.

The Xeon 7400 boasts significantly better performance due to its 16MB cache memory and half-dozen cores.

 

The Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) has now shared with all its members the physical layer (PHY) portion for its third generation storage interface, which will be defined in the upcoming SATA Revision 3.0 specification. SATA 3.0 is set to bring data streaming enhancements, better power management and a top transfer speed of 6 Gbps (gigabits per second) while maintaining backwards compatibility with first and second generation SATA devices.

Major drive manufacturers and controller builders are already hard at work on 6.0 Gbps-ready hardware but don’t expect to see them too soon as the SATA 3.0 specs are not yet finalized. They will be though, before the end of this year.

 

Intel’s new Nehalem microarchitecture will be formally branded Intel Core processor. The first products in this new family of processors, including an Extreme Edition version, will carry an i7 identifier and will be formally branded as Intel Core i7 processor. This is the first of several new identifiers to come as different products launch over the next year.

The Intel Core i7 processor brand logo will be available for high-performance desktop PCs with a separate black logo for Intel’s highest-end Extreme Edition. Intel will include processor model numbers to differentiate each chip