Year: 2021

The Arc of the Alchemist

No, not a new Steve Winward song, a new GPU family   As you know, or should know, Intel has been up to their old trick of changing names and requiring you to get an upgrade to your Captain Midnight decoder ring. They did a few weeks back when Pat Gelsinger came in and introduced the world to Angstroms. And … Read more

Nvidia’s Q2 FY22 results

May the Omniverse be with you (Source: Nvidia)   The company again reported record revenue gains. For the second quarter ended July 30, 2021, the company reported sales of $6.51 billion, up 68 percent from a year earlier and up 15 percent from the previous quarter, with record revenue from the company’s Gaming, Data Center and Professional Visualization platforms. The company’s … Read more

Intel architectural developments and plans

Intel revealed some of the details of their newest CPUs, a few tidbits of their Ponte Vecchio HPC GPU. They also mentioned their someday recently renamed consumer GPUs that are going to put AMD and Nvidia out of business. First off, and totally seriously, the Intel presentation was one of the best-looking and well-organized I have ever seen. Intel has … Read more

The Arc of the story—Intel brands its GPU

An Intel chip (maybe DG1). (source: Intel)   After years in the process, Intel has come up with several names for their proposed someday dGPUs. To tell the world about it, Intel’s marketing department shed a little of the spotlight on some of the troops who are valiantly struggling to fulfill Raja Koduri’s promise. A group of them made a … Read more

HP puts a spin on the Chrome-based PC

Two new Chrome-based devices from HP add styling and additional features to up the ante on the Chrome-based computers. (Source: HP)   Chromebooks have been gaining a steady edge in the PC’ish market since their introduction in 2011. They have met the needs of students and people looking for a lightweight computer to provide walk-around accessibility to the Interest. Google’s … Read more

Jensen Huang to Receive Semiconductor Industry’s Top Honor

Thirty-one years ago the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) set up the Robert N. Noyce Award, the industry’s highest honor to recognize individuals for outstanding achievement and leadership in support of the semiconductor industry. Lumiaries like Wild Corrigan, Jerry Sanders, and Jack Kilby have received it. Last year Lisa Su received it and Robert H. Dennard, DRAM Inventor the year before … Read more