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AMD and Nvidia have both blamed a worldwide shortage of hard disk drives for a decline in sales of their graphics processors. The Verge reports that Nvidia fell short of revenue projections by $116 million due to the shortage. Another contributing factor was the decline of its Tegra 2 processor as focus shifts to its successor, Tegra 3. AMD said during an investor call that it was feeling "a little bit of pressure in terms of hard disks." More >

Nvidia's new quad-core mobile processor, Tegra 3, offers only a modest improvement over Apple's A5, according to early benchmark tests. TechCrunch reports that Nvidia's long-standing boast that Tegra 3 would leave the likes of A5, the processor used in the iPad, trailing in its wake appears to be wide of the mark. More >

Nvidia has launched its Tegra 3 processor, which boasts better graphics performance and lower power consumption than its predecessor, and makes console-quality graphics possible on mobile devices. Tegra 3 offers three times the graphics performance, and a reduction of 61 per cent in battery consumption, compared to Tegra 2. The key technology is the patent-pending Variable Symmetric Multiprocessing, which offloads low-consumption processes to a fifth "companion" core of the processor, shutting down the four high-performance cores entirely. More >