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Seventh Heaven: NVIDIA Extends Record-Breaking Award Streak at Computex

Posted: 27 May 2015 10:46 AM PDT

NVIDIA has clinched its seventh straight year of "Best Choice Awards" at Computex, Asia's largest technology tradeshow.

NVIDIA DRIVE, GeForce GTX 980 and NVIDIA SHIELD tablet topped their respective categories, extending our record-breaking win-streak for a foreign company at Computex.

This year, 450 products vied for technological supremacy in 18 categories.

NVIDIA DRIVE topped the Car Electronics Products category by winning a Golden Award, which honors the most outstanding product in a category.

DRIVE comes in two versions. NVIDIA DRIVE PX is a powerful car computer that uses deep learning to enable self-driving capabilities. NVIDIA DRIVE CX is a platform for driving all the digital displays and information found in cars.

At the head of the Computer and System category was the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 GPU. Powered by our next-generation NVIDIA Maxwell architecture, the GTX 980 delivers incredible performance, unmatched power efficiency and cutting-edge features.

Rounding out the trio is the NVIDIA SHIELD tablet, which won the Mobile Applications and Devices category. The high-performance tablet transforms into a serious gaming machine with the SHIELD controller and NVIDIA GRID game-streaming service.

All of these award-winning products are currently on display at the Best Choice Awards Pavilion, booth I0307, at Nangang Exhibition Hall, and featured in the annual buyer's guide.

Francis Yu, our VP of Asia Pacific Sales and Marketing, will receive the awards from Taiwan's President Ma Ying-Jeou at the Computex awards ceremony on June 2.

Computex is the second-largest technology tradeshow in the world. The show's Best Choice Awards, established in 2002, honor innovation, functionality and market potential.

NVIDIA won the Cloud Computing category with its NVIDIA GRID virtualization technology in 2014. In the IC and Components category, the NVIDIA Tegra K1 mobile processor picked up a Golden Award, which honors the most outstanding product in a category.

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Gut Check: How EchoPixel Gives Surgeons an Interactive, 3D View Inside the Human Body [Video]

Posted: 26 May 2015 03:03 PM PDT

Virtual reality technology has made a big splash in gaming. But VR is serious business, as well. As serious as brain surgery.

Anytime you open up the body, there are risks involved. So, wouldn't it be great to give surgeons a clear look inside a patient's torso or skull before they make the first incision?

With EchoPixel imaging technology, that vision is becoming reality.

EchoPixel's True 3D Viewer shows a virtual representation of a patient's body. And it does so in open, immersive 3D.

Using stereo glasses, a stylus and a zSpace monitor, physicians can see and manipulate imagery obtained from CT, MR or ultrasound scans.

It's as if the objects were on a table in front of them.

Measure the diameter of an artery. Check for cysts in an organ. See exactly where tissue and a tumor intersect. Grab, spin and zoom in on the imagery in real time. You can even identify and separate an object from the rest of the image — to get a distinct 3D view of a tumor, for example.

With the True 3D Viewer, medical professionals can expand their diagnostic and surgical planning. So patients get better, more reliable results.

Getting EchoPixel's incredible results require some serious computing power. That's where the Quadro K4200 graphics card comes in. We designed this card for professional use, with all the reliability, optimization and performance that entails.

The K4200 sprints through image data, processing information so fast that doctors can view everything in real time. There's no lag in manipulating imagery in 3D.

Watch EchoPixel True 3D Viewer in action.

True 3D Viewer was recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

And it's already in trials with hospitals across the country, including Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco.

In addition, companies like Foxconn have an educational version of the viewer.

As a patient engagement tool, True 3D Viewer allows doctors to clearly communicate with patients to understand surgeries and improve compliance with treatment plans.

EchoPixel will be showing True 3D Viewer at the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine Conference, in Booth 400 during May 28-30, in Washington.

There, you can also see NVIDIA Quadro GPUs powering solutions from Candelis, Dell, EIZO, FujiFilm, McKesson, Merge, Visage Imaging and Vital Images.

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