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Higher Prices and Margins to Increase Nvidia’s Profitability
Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA), which competes with AMD (NYSE:AMD) in the graphic cards business, indicates that its profit margins are benefiting from the launch of its latest line of graphics processors. If this trend were to continue, there could be ad...
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Can Nvidia’s Stock Benefit from New Optimus Technology for Notebook PCs?
Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA), which competes with AMD (NYSE:AMD) and Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) in the graphics processor market, has introduced a technology it calls Optimus that is designed to optimize graphics performance and battery life on notebook PCs. ...
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Upside to Nvidia’s Stock if New Tegra 2 Chip Wins Big in Tablet PC Market
Nvidia’s (NASDAQ:NVDA) new Tegra 2 mobile processor is designed to serve the fast growing tablet PC market (including e-readers and smartbooks). We estimate that there could be a 12% upside to our $12 Trefis price estimate for Nvidia’...
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Can Snapdragon Stop Qualcomm’s Chipset Pricing Declines?
Adoption of Qualcomm’s (NASDAQ:QCOM) Snapdragon chipset used in smartphones is increasing. Snapdragon is an application processor that gives mobile phones the computing power to run more sophisticated applications and software. Snapdragon...
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35% of Nvidia’s Stock from High-End Professional Graphics Cards
Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) makes money by selling graphics cards and competes with players like Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) and AMD (NYSE:AMD). We estimate that the professional graphics cards business is the most valuable division for Nvidia, constituting ab...
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Nvidia’s new chip for mobile phones and tablet PCs
Nvidia recently announced that it has launched the next generation of its Tegra computing chip which will be used in smartphones and tablet PCs. The Tegra 2 is designed to have computing power that approaches that of PCs while minimizing pow...
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Intel stumbles in discrete PC graphics market – nVidia / AMD market share secure for now
Intel recently announced that it is scrapping near term plans to launch a consumer version of its Larrabee discrete graphics processing unit (GPU). Larrabee was designed to compete with GPUs from nVidia and AMD currently used in many desktop PC...
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Nvidia’s new Fermi cards can help you model climate change and collision physics better than Intel or AMD cards
Last week, Nvidia announced its new Fermi line of “supercomputing” graphics processing units (GPUs) targeted initially at high-end professional users. Nvidia has a strong position within the professional segment of the graphics pr...
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Graphics Cards used by Gamers and Professionals is nVidia’s most valuable business
nVidia makes most of its money by selling video graphics cards used in PCs. The company sells the majority of its products directly to PC makers such as Dell, Toshiba and HP which integrate them into their PC offerings. Despite this, nVidia...