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Cutting-edge graphics technology goes mobile

Anand Parthasarathy

NVIDIA’s Indian engineers create first single-chip multimedia solution for hand-helds

BANGALORE: NVIDIA, the U.S.-based industry leader for graphics processor technology, has created a single-chip solution, which migrates its rich multimedia and games experience from desktop and laptop to mobile phones and other hand-held devices.

The recently-released GoForce 6100 chip was completely designed and developed at its Hyderabad R&D centre, NVIDIA’s co-founder and Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang, told The Hindu here on Monday. “India is our largest development base outside the U.S. — and the three centres in Pune, Hyderabad and Bangalore represent almost a sixth of our total design team,” Mr. Huang said.

The next-generation of NVIDIA’s first-ever supercomputing platform based on graphical processing units — the Tesla — is also being refined and put together in India, he added. The product harnesses the inherent parallelism (with 128 separate computing cores) of the NVIDIA 8800 processor to deliver supercomputing per- formance with a very small number of chips.

The ‘Made-in-India’ GoForce 6100 chip has sharply boosted what mobile phones can do by way of graphics and multimedia.

A reference design created by NVIDIA displays DVD quality movies, enables 10-megapixel camera function and a games experience as good as a PlayStation Portable (PSP), while delivering all normal 3-G phone functionality.

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