Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang introduced Fermi, the companys next-generation graphics processing unit (GPU) architecture designed to accelerate supercomputer-caliber applications such as ray tracing and high-precision scientific computing. Fermi will utilize three billion transistors and 512 CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) cores, and represents Nvidias next best hope for competing vigorously against Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.
– Nvidia plans on releasing its next-generation graphics processing unit architecture,
code-named Fermi, within the next few months. Fermi will incorporate more than three billion transistors and 512 CUDA
(Compute Unified Device Architecture) cores, Nvidia says, which will accelerate
its parallel-c…