Unless you’ve been in a coma on Easter island, you know Intel is going to enter the discrete GPU market in 2020 with its highly scalable Xe architecture. Making such an announcement, with or without slides, is the easy part—takes about 30 seconds. The rest is a long, long pipeline. In addition to all the steps one must take from … Read more
The memory company ups its game and its stack With the acquisition of Fwdnxt, an AI software and hardware startup, Micron Technology announced it was developing a new set of hardware and software tools for deep learning applications combined with advanced Micron memory. Fwdnxt’s(pronounced “forward next”)AI hardware and software technology will enable Micron to explore deep learning solutions required … Read more
The latest market data (from IHS)shows Acer ranked as the number one supplier, worldwide, for gaming monitors in 1H’19 with 15.7% market share and 81% year-on-year (YoY) growth. In North America, Acer also took the no. 1 spot during 1H’19 with 27.8% retail gaming market share, and in Canada with a 24.2% market share (source: NPD). The success of … Read more
Onshape is first SaaS platform to unite CAD with data management and collaboration tools
While Intel struggles to get the yield on 10 nm up to acceptable levels, TSMC, which is already shipping 7-nm parts to AMD, Qualcomm, and others, has built a 5-nm fab and is now getting a site ready for a 3-nm fab. Europeans consider hair with a diameter of 0.04 to 0.06 mm as thin, hair with a diameter between 0.06 and 0.08 mm … Read more
Revenue for the quarter was up 16.4% from last quarter to $19.2 billion, GAAP profit was $6 billion, up 43% from last quarter—7nm queued up
Intel beat Wall Street expectations on its third-quarter financial performance sending the company’s stock up 6.9% in morning trading Friday after the chipmaker reported late-Thursday afternoon. Intel reported its calendar Q3 2019, revenues were flat year-over-year and grew significantly quarter-to-quarter. The PC-centric business and data-centric revenue increased over 10% and 28%, respectively, over the last quarter. This was the best … Read more
Arm has expanded its Mali graphics portfolio with its new G57 GPU. Targeted at the mainstream market. Mali-G57 is Arm’s first mainstream GPU based on the new Valhall architecture, following the premium Mali-G77 GPU launched back in May this year. The G77 is targeted at the premium mobile market. Arm says the Mali-G57 enables a number of features not traditionally … Read more
Useful for your travel kit
We chase pixels here at Mt. Tiburon Testing Labs, so when Key Smart’s rep asked if I’d like to look at the company’s new flashlight, I thought, why? But then I thought. What is a flashlight but a projector without an LCD? And yes, I was intrigued. If you ever wanted a small but powerful light, you should check … Read more
Do more (driving) by seeing more
Integrated graphics have been with us since 1991 in the workstation space, and since 1995 in the PC, and earlier than that in workstations. They found their way into smartphones, tablets, automobiles, and game consoles. Integrated graphics have evolved from being part of the chipset to being integrated within the CPU. Intel did that first in 2010. AMD followed them … Read more
