CNETAnalysis: NVIDIA’s third-quarter earnings revealed this week that the tech manufacturer reached record level earnings, largely thanks to sales of Google’s Nexus 7 and Microsoft’s Surface . The financial results showed that the Santa Clara-based company made $1.20 billion (UK£0.75, AUS$1.15) in revenue for the last quarter, a growth of 15.3% from the preceding quarter. Jen-Hsun Huang, President and CEO of NVIDIA, explained the drivers for this growth in the earnings report. “Kepler GPUs are winning across the special-purpose PC markets we serve, from gaming to design to supercomputing,” said Huang. “And Tegra is powering some of the most innovative tablets, phones and cars in the market.” GPUs and tablets too This financial success is due in part to NVIDIA’s GeForce GPUs, particularly those made with the Kepler architecture, including the GTX 680, GTX 690, and GT 640M. The new line of bargain Kepler GPUs, including the 660ti, GTX 660, 650ti, and GTX 650 have also performed well at market. Rising sales for tablets running on NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 system-on-a-chip have been a substantial source of recent revenue for the company. Among these tablets, the “million a month” sales of the Nexus 7 and sales from the newly released MIcrosoft Surface RT seem to be buoying NVIDIA’s profits more than most. Related Stories AMD may cut up to 30 per cent of workers
CNews Karachi. July 05: A Pakistani Scientist in Britain has invented a new chemical for processing plastic (polythene) bags which has the quality of dissolution after its use in 105 days.A manufacturing unit for these plastic bags was being set up in Turkey while interest has been shown in the setting up of a big unit and manufacturing firm’s head quarter in Karachi which will be used to supply such dissolvable polythene bags to Asian countries. The Director of UK based firm Bio Plast Biodegradable Plastics GL Punn while leading a 15 member delegation called on EDO Municipal Services City Government Masood Alam. The Executive Director of Bio Plast Pakistan Muhammad Hanif Awan and M. Sultan Mehmood Awan was also present on this occasion. The Director of Bio Plast informed the EDO Municipal Services about the characteristics of new chemical. He said that the firm was going to set up its first plant in Turkey which will be operative in next two months. The delegation also praised the vi