NVIDIA’s Optimus technology is designed to let laptops with integrated and a discrete NVIDIA graphics card switch between the two options automatically. Since the NVIDIA graphics chip uses more power, ...

NVIDIA’s Optimus technology allows laptops with the latest Intel chips and NVIDIA graphics cards to automatically switch between Intel’s integrated graphics and NVIDIA’s higher performance graphics ...

Nvidia may have joined the Linux Foundation earlier this year, but its Optimus switching technology, commonly used as a power-saving mechanism in many laptops, has remained a sticking point for many ...

We've always thought switchable graphics made a lot of sense on laptops, and NVIDIA's new Optimus tech looks like it's going to bring it mainstream in a serious way -- there's no more manually ...

NVIDIA's Optimus technology is enabled through a combination of custom hardware and software. What NVIDIA is calling the "Optimus Copy Engine" is integrated into all of their current 40nm GeForce 200M ...

We’ve seen a ton of Core i5 notebooks recently, all loaded with Intel’s impotent integrated graphics, which are part of the chip. Now, Nvidia’s Optimus enables PCs to switch automatically between ...

Some ideas are so obvious that when announced, one's first reaction is to ask, "Wait, weren't we already doing it that way?" Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New ...

Launched earlier this month, NVIDIA’s Optimus is a clever solution that could, and probably will, completely turn around NVIDIA’s fortunes in the mobile space. It’s also extremely likely that, as a ...