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Nvidia is one of the world’s biggest computer chip companies, best known for its line of graphics processing units or GPUs. Although the firm had its start in the world of consumer gaming, in recent years it’s grown into a true tech titan with diverse investments in self-driving cars, cloud computing, supercomputing, and artificial intelligence. The parallel processing power of Nvidia’s GPUs has proven to be particularly good at machine learning tasks, and its chips are in high demand not only from AI researchers but any business with an interest in artificial intelligence. From 2015 onwards, Nvidia’s share price grew sharply, allowing the company to make some key acquisitions, including UK chip designer ARM, which it announced it would purchase in September 2020 for $40 billion. Nvidia was founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, who is currently the firm’s CEO. Known for his leather jackets and upbeat corporate presentations, Huang is a familiar figure to anyone interested in tech.

Tom Warren
Tom Warren
Nvidia fixes Windows 10 transparency issues.

If you updated to the latest Nvidia driver for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III earlier this week, you might have noticed transparency issues in Windows 10. Nvidia has now issued a hotfix driver to fix the problems and address stability issues in Alan Wake 2 and even a Blue Screen of Death crash. You can grab the new 546.08 driver over at Nvidia’s hotfix site, or simply wait on the next Game Ready driver release that will include these fixes.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
AWS now lets you rent instances of Nvidia H100 GPUs.

The H100 GPUs have become a hot commodity with the AI boom, so I’m guessing this AWS new service will be pretty popular.

Tom Warren
Tom Warren
Nvidia’s Call of Duty MW3 game ready driver is here.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III campaign early access starts on November 2nd, and Nvidia is ready with its latest driver update. There’s DLSS 3, DLAA, and Reflex support included for MW3, alongside Nvidia Omniverse getting DLSS 3.5 support with Ray Reconstruction. You can download the latest Nvidia GPU driver right here.

<em>Call of Duty: MW3 early access starts on November 2nd.</em>
<em>Nvidia’s 4K performance benchmarks for MW3.</em>
<em>Nvidia’s 1440p performance benchmarks for MW3.</em>
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Call of Duty: MW3 early access starts on November 2nd.
Image: Activision
Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Your RTX 20 GPU can now AI-upscale blurry old web videos.

Previously exclusive to Nvidia’s RTX 30 and RTX 40 series cards, the company’s RTX Video Super Resolution technique for Chrome, Edge and VLC is now adding RTX 20 cards, too.

Nvidia says version 1.5 also “improves the quality even further to avoid over smoothing and increase the level of detail and can now enhance video when played back at native resolution.” Here’s the company’s FAQ:

RTX Video Super Resolution FAQ

[nvidia.custhelp.com]

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Naraka Bladepoint gets frame generation today on Nvidia’s RTX 40 GPUs.

The DLSS 3.0 technique arrives today to dramatically increase perceived framerate by imagining lots of new frames, and the the speedy Naraka’s a good candidate — particularly since it already has Nvidia Reflex to soften the blow to latency. It’s part of a new GeForce driver today. AMD’s got similar tech, but also some catching up to do.

GeForce News

[www.nvidia.com]

AMD CEO Lisa Su on the AI revolution and competing with Nvidia
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At this year’s Code Conference, the CEO of one of the world’s largest computer chip companies discusses competing with Nvidia’s leading GPU, AI regulation, and the global supply chain.

Nilay Patel
Newegg now takes GPU trade-insNewegg now takes GPU trade-ins
Nathan Edwards
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Check out this special edition RTX 4090 chip from ASUS.

First shown at Computex in May, the ROG Matrix Platinum comes with the “industry’s first” liquid metal thermal material on the GPU’s die, which should allow for cooler temperatures and better performance when compared to using thermal paste.

It also comes with a pretty sleek design that creates a sort of lighted frame around the card. As you might’ve imagined, this GPU doesn’t come cheap — it costs $3,199.99.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
GeForce Now is shutting down in Russia with little explanation.

GFN.ru, auto-translated:

In the current circumstances, we cannot provide the quality of service that we have established for ourselves and that our users expect and deserve.

Cloud gaming service ends October 1st. They’re promising refunds. Nvidia ceased all activities in Russia last October; both actions are presumably related to the Ukraine war. (Via Tom’s Hardware)

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Microsoft’s PC Game Pass games have arrived on GeForce Now.

Starting today, you can access several PC Game Pass titles from Nvidia’s cloud gaming service GeForce Now, including Deathloop, No Man’s Sky, Grounded, and more. You can view the whole roster of available games from Nvidia’s website.

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Breaking down how Nvidia became a leader in AI hardware.

Nvidia’s AI lead pushed it to become a $1 trillion company, while its H100 chips are so in demand they can be used as collateral even as the next-gen Nvidia GH200 sits on the horizon.

Now the New York Times describes how it’s established a monstrous lead over other chipmakers, extending a victory tour of editorial recounting Nvidia “hand-delivering processors to Elon Musk and Sam Altman,” how it started in a Denny’s, and CEO Jensen Huang’s SIGGRAPH keynote outlining its decision to focus on AI.

For this startup, Nvidia GPUs are currencyFor this startup, Nvidia GPUs are currency
Elizabeth Lopatto
Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Nvidia adds DLSS 3, raytracing, and RTX IO in this free update to a Portal mod.

Called Portal: Prelude RTX, it’s free for owners of the original Portal on Steam once it’s released at 3PM ET today.

This is the first title to use Nvidia’s RTX IO, which supports both DirectStorage and Vulkan, using GPU cores to load compressed data directly from storage to the graphics card. The system is also being used in the PC port for Ratchet & Clank: A Rift Apart.

Portal Prelude is unrelated to the similarly-named side-scroller for graphing calculators.

Tom Warren
Tom Warren
It’s time for Nvidia’s Jeff Fisher video deposition.

Tie or Ti in a GeForce 4080 Ti? Jeff Fisher at Nvidia has tried to answer that in the past, and the vice president of Nvidia’s PC business is now appearing via a prerecorded video deposition. Nvidia was against Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard acquisition until the Xbox maker struck a deal earlier this year to bring Xbox PC games to Nvidia’s GeForce Now service.

Nvidia’s Jeff Fisher.
Nvidia’s Jeff Fisher.
Image: Nvidia
Tom Warren
Tom Warren
Nvidia’s head of GeForce Now is now appearing via video deposition.

I told you it was going to be a day full of video testimony. Next up we have Phil Eisler, who leads the GeForce Now team at Nvidia. It’s a nine-minute video.

Microsoft had previously kept its own games off GeForce Now to not compete with xCloud, but the Xbox maker signed an important deal with Nvidia earlier this year to bring its Xbox PC games to GeForce Now.

Image: Nvidia