(Source: Skitterphoto) AMD has been fertilizing their seedling cores and watering them every day, and now that the sun is out and the cold of winter tossed off, new cute little Ryzens are popping up, rolling hills and fields full of them. But, like all wonders of Spring, they won’t last. OEMs will be gobbling them up for the … Read more
ATI, founded in 1985 as Array Technology Inc., in Thornhill Canada just outside of Toronto, was a pioneer in the graphics chip and add-in board market. It was acquired by AMD in 2006 and formed what is now the Radeon Technology Group. In the fall of 1995, ATI announced its first combination of 2D, 3D, and MPEG-1 accelerator chip … Read more
The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) today announced that it has released version 2.0 of the DisplayPort Alternate Mode (“Alt Mode”) standard. DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.0 provides seamless interoperability with the new USB4 specification published by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) and fully enables all of the features in the latest version of the DisplayPort standard (version 2.0) through the … Read more
Last week Intel introduced the 10th Gen Comet Lake Intel Core S-series desktop processors, including Intel's flagship Core i9-10900K processor, which the company is claiming is the world's fastest gaming processor.* The i9-10900K features up to 10 cores, 20 threads, and DDR4-2933 memory speeds. It comes with the new Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 which the company says can … Read more
AMD turned 50 in May 2019 AMD’s first quarter was down from Q4, but up year to year in sales and profits. Revenue was $1.79 billion, up 40% year-over-year primarily driven by higher Computing and Graphics segment revenue. Revenue was down 16% quarter-over-quarter due to lower revenue in both segments. “We executed well in the first quarter, navigating the … Read more
Increasing the yield by using smaller die could offset the flattening of Moore’s Law.
Semiconductor Industry Association Moore’s observation about memory density doubling every one and a half years or so was in retrospect somewhat obvious. Nonetheless, it laid the foundation for futurists and forecasters to predict technological miracles that are still forthcoming. I remember Jensen Huang saying in the early days of Nvidia, “Moore’s Law is our friend.” He was right then, … Read more
Intel's 5.3 GHz 10th Gen Intel Core H-series processor The impact of the supply chain on downstream vendors has been shocking. Combined with massive layoffs and soaring unemployment, the economic engine of the world is traumatized and forecasting is all but impossible. Intel is not immune to any of that and, as a result, has reported a decrease in … Read more
Big promises, small science, sleight of hand based demos. When a company, any company, over promises, over hypes, and gets rewarded for it by investors there are two responses, rational observers may wonder, what am I missing? While critics and competitors start the countdown for the day of redemption so they can gloat, say I told you so, and … Read more
Cutting the cord is not as easy as it sounds
Company saves enough water for 9,000 homes for a year
Razor, as always, is on the cutting edge when it comes to mobile gaming
