NVIDIA aims to put CUDA in mobile devices

Posted on Wednesday, December 01 2010 @ 21:55 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang revealed plans to put CUDA into mobile devices in the next few years:

The move, when it comes, could mean a big jump in the ability of mobile devices like smartphones and tablet computers to run multimedia-rich applications.

"The benefit of CUDA in mobile devices is shocking," said Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, in a Tokyo interview.

CUDA allows for certain processor-intensive tasks such as video editing or image manipulation to be off-loaded from the main processor to a graphics processor, realizing a significant improvement in data processing speed.

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