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Nvidia revamps Quadro chips
Leading graphics chipmaker Nvidia on Tuesday launched new versions of its Quadro chips for workstations, high-end PCs used for drafting, animation and other graphics-intensive tasks. The release of the Quadro4 family of chips follows by two weeks Nvidia's release of the GeForce4 family of chips for desktop and laptop PCs. While Nvidia has established a firm lead in PC graphics chips, the much smaller market for workstation products is more mixed, with specialists such as 3Dlabs accounting for much of the higher end of the market. PC manufacturers announcing plans to support the new Nvidia chip included Compaq Computer, which said it will offer versions of Quadro4 throughout its line of Evo workstations, and IBM, which will use the chip in its IntelliStation M Pro workstations. --David Becker, Special to ZDNet News
Leading graphics chipmaker Nvidia on Tuesday launched new versions of its Quadro chips for workstations, high-end PCs used for drafting, animation and other graphics-intensive tasks.
The release of the Quadro4 family of chips follows by two weeks Nvidia's release of the GeForce4 family of chips for desktop and laptop PCs.
While Nvidia has established a firm lead in PC graphics chips, the much smaller market for workstation products is more mixed, with specialists such as 3Dlabs accounting for much of the higher end of the market.
PC manufacturers announcing plans to support the new Nvidia chip included Compaq Computer, which said it will offer versions of Quadro4 throughout its line of Evo workstations, and IBM, which will use the chip in its IntelliStation M Pro workstations. --David Becker, Special to ZDNet News