Nvidia Announces New Mobile GPUs; We Break Out Decoder Rings

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Nvidia launched its next-generation of mobile GPUs today at CES, the 500M series, with the pointed lead-in that it expects these products to ship hand-in-hand with Sandy Bridge-equipped notebooks. The 500M series doesn't add any additional features over the 400M cards, but the company's press release stumps over Nvidia's Optimus technology, the company's 3DTV Play initiative, 3DVision, PhysX, and, of course, CUDA. "GeForce GT 500M GPUs combined with Optimus technology enable the most versatile laptops ever created,"

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