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Nvidia Unveils Plans for New, State-of-the-Art Campus

Graphics chip maker spills more details about sprawling new Silicon Valley headquarters it plans to build across the street from its current campus in Santa Clara, Calif.

5 Things to Know About Nvidia GTX Titan

Not sure if the Nvidia’s new card is for you, or just want to know a few facts about it? Here’s a primer.

Nvidia Introduces Supercomputer-Class Graphics Card for Gamers

It’s not everyday that you can claim that you have a part from the world’s fastest supercomputer in your PC. Thanks to Nvidia if you have $1,000 handy, now you can!

Nvidia Bucks PC Industry Trend With Strong Earnings

Graphics chip maker reports booming sales for its fiscal 2013 and the final quarter of last year though profits dipped a bit on both an annual and sequential quarterly basis.

Report: Nvidia Files Plans for Sprawling New Headquarters

Company quietly submits plans with officials to develop Nvidia-owned land in Santa Clara, Calif. for massively expanded campus, the Silicon Valley Business Journal reports.

Samsung Passes Apple as Biggest Chip Buyer in 2012

Together, Samsung and Apple account for 15 percent of semiconductor consumption as orders from Nokia, PC makers drop sharply, Gartner reports.

AMD Loses $1.18B in 2012, Promises Changes

Advanced Micro Devices takes a step back financially but says investments in low-power chips for tablets and the data center will straighten the ship in the coming years.

Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 Review

If you’ve been waiting a couple of years to upgrade your $200 video card, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 is an attractive choice that nonetheless faces strong competition from similarly priced AMD products.

Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 Review

Unless you need the absolute fastest single-GPU card on the market, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 delivers a dazzling combination of performance, power usage, and pricing.

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Australian Stock Exchange Cancels Blockchain Plans That Cost $170 Million

The ASX aimed to use blockchain to advance its clearing and settlements system.

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Philip Lowe, the Reserve Bank Governor has expressed major disappointment in ASX’s failure

• The ASX had been working on this blockchain revamp since five years
• It will now continue using its existing 25-year-old CHESS system
• The ASX has been directed to rework on an efficient blockchain solution

The blockchain twist to Australia’s stock exchange has been indefinitely cancelled. The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), that has spent around $170 million (roughly Rs. 1,387 crore), in a blockchain revamp following an independent review from Accenture. The result of this consultation showed “significant challenges” with the design solution that the ASX had been working on. Those solutions were not really meeting with ASXs requirements. The ASX aimed to use blockchain to advance its clearing and settlements system.

The ASX wished to replace its existing CHESS system to record shareholdings and manage transaction settlements. The abbreviation of the 25-year-old system expands to — Clearing House Electronic Subregister System.

As part of its review, Accenture has claimed that ASX’s Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), was too complex. The blockchain software was up to 60 percent complete.

“ASX’s announcement marks a significant setback to the replacement of critical national infrastructure for Australia’s cash equity markets,” said an official statement from the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA).

Philip Lowe, the Reserve Bank Governor has expressed major disappointment in ASX’s failure to introduce a blockchain twist to its operations.

“The announcement by ASX after many years of investment by both ASX and industry is very disappointing. ASX needs to prioritise developing a new plan to deliver safe and reliable clearing and settlement infrastructure,” Lowe noted.

The ASX has been directed to keep the CHESS system running until an efficient alternate is designed.

Last year in November, Jane Hume, the Digital Economy Minister of Australia, had urged the Australian government to embrace innovation and developments around blockchain.

Meanwhile, other nations are also trying to experiment with expanding the use cases of blockchain to bring unchangeable transparency to their operations.

In Brazil, the law enforcement authorities unveiled a special blockchain network aiming to combat corruption in public expenses by tracking them efficiently.

Earlier in October, the police unit of India’s Firozabad district launched a new complaint forum built on the Polygon blockchain to enable locals to lodge complaints with the law enforcement in an unchangeable format.

Even in the UAE, Abu Dhabi has decided to use the blockchain technology to make commercial judicial processes more efficient https://jiji.ng/. This will result in substantial time and cost savings for parties in the enforcement of their commercial judgments.

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