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Demoed unit has four times the number of CUDA cores  At 5 lb and
20 mm thick, Acer Inc.'s (TPE:2353) TimelineU M3 is a bit of a
beefy 15.6-inch pseudo-Ultrabook.  But what it lacks in slender
figure, it makes up for in pure power.  It comes with a Intel
Corp. (INTC) Core i7-2637M, a 1.7 GHz dual-core Sandy Bridge
part that can Turbo up to 2.8 GHz, a 1366x768 screen, 4 GB of
1333 MHz DDR3 RAM, a 256 GB SSD from Lite-On, and a DVD+RW
drive.  But its real treasure is its GeForce GT 640M GPU.  Yes,
that's a Kepler GPU.    NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA) has been noticeably
absent from the graphics race this spring while rival Advanced
Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) rounded out its lineup [1][2][3].
 However, NVIDIA is charging back, leveraging its strength of
GPU computing.  The GT 640M comes with 384 CUDA cores (8
streaming multi-processors), putting it on par with a GTX 460 or
a GTX 570M.    Like AMD, NVIDIA is targeting lower clock speeds
for its first 28 nm parts. 