Nvidia Declares Its New Processor Core, Kal-El, To Be More Compatible With Quad-Core Mobile Graphics

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The Tegra graphics processor of Nvidia is perhaps technologically the most advance processor in the market of graphics today, especially the Android devices. Recently Nvidia has made the announcement that it is planning to upgrade its already dominant processer for mobile graphics, which will lead the market in future. It was in February, that the initial announcement of the upcoming Kal-El quad-core mobile graphics chip was made publically. Nvidia has released new upgrade regarding the progress of its processor, publishing a demo video displaying the most excellent technology behind Kal-El, allowing it to perform in real-time lighting and physics capabilities on a HoneyComb Android table. This promo video is titled as “GlowBall,” and it shows the features a glowing ball lighting up and moving through a 3D “creepy funhouse” environment.

According to the official blog website of Nvidia, its writer, Matt Wuebbling wrote that “this shows off the power of true dynamic lighting, rendered in real-time with physics (no canned animations here, folks),” adding that “this marks the first time this type of lighting is feasible on a mobile device.”

Nvidia has measured that its new Kal-El gives almost five times better graphic performance than the preceding Tegra 2 processor, which is already housed in devices like the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Motorola Xoom at this time. In contrary to Tegra 2, the Kal-El works on the quad-core processor in the Android device, supplemented by a 12-core graphics processor. The video promo displayed by Nvidia allegedly only shows the GlowBall, but does not reveals whether the chip will be working in real-time: shutting down two of the device’s main processor cores has a dramatic impact on Glowball’s overall performance.

A Former Nvidia Analyst Confesses To the Charges of Insider Trading Charges

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A previously employed financial analyst of Nvidia Corp has confessed of being guilty to a punishable criminal offence on Friday. 39-year-old Sonny Nguyen was being investigated in a U.S. probe of insider trading at expert networking firms and hedge funds. He confessed in front of the U.S. District Judge, Jed Rakoff, in New York that he provided illicit information to a former Primary Global Research consultant, Winifred Jiau, secretly in 2007 and 2008. He disclosed that this information was related to chipmaker Nvidia's quarterly financial situation, before it was actually announced publicly.

Jiau is a former technology consultant at Primary Global, in California, and has now been summoned by the court to stand by the same judge on 1^st June. Nguyen has now been released after acquiring a bail for $100,000, and is now likely to testify at the trial, according to the records of the court. Nguyen is one of the fourteen people who are suspected and being critically examined in the investigation of expert networking firms which matches the investment managers with public companies.

Nguyen has pleaded guilty to the charges of conspiring and conducting wire fraud and securities fraud, he stated that "I provided material nonpublic information to my co-conspirators ... about Nvidia Corporation quarterly financial results and in exchange I received similar stock tips." Nguyen indentified to the judge, that his top two co-conspirators in this illegal activity were Winifred Jiau and Stanley Ng. Being unclear whether Ng is a name or a nickname.