Lenovo’s new mobile workstation; Flamingly good
Remember when it cost almost a half a million dollars for Flame?
The foldable display is here from Samsung
Smartphones are great. Miniature computers connected to a vast, worldwide always-on network. They fit in your pocket, are lightweight, and run for hours or days without a recharge. A bit expensive (about twice what a low-end laptop costs), they are ubiquitous, and everybody has at least one of them. There are only two things wrong with them: you can hardly … Read more
Nokia puts Pixelworks in phones
The Nokia 7.2 and Nokia 6.2 smartphones launched at IFA 2019 feature PureDisplay technology using a Pixelworks visual processor. These new Nokia smartphones have big 6.3-inch screens with always-on HDR and a series of picture quality enhancements. The Nokia 7.2 and Nokia 6.2 smartphones are built with a 6.3-inch 19.5:9 FHD+ screen and PureDisplay technology and processor with the … Read more
SiliconArts new ray tracing chip and IP
Founded in 2010 in Seoul by Dr. Hyung Min Yoon, formerly at Samsung, Hee-Jin Shin from LG, Byoung Ok Lee from MtekVision, and Woo Chan Park from Sejong University, SiliconArts took on the formidable task of designing and manufacturing a ray tracing hardware accelerator co-processor, which they called RayCore. The company showed its first implementation in an FPGA in 2014, … Read more
Asus squeezes 24 GB and a Quadro in a laptop
Asus showed a lineup of Nvidia-powered notebooks at IFA. It was a clean sweep and something of a coup for Nvidia in that three of the five units had Quadro workstation GPUs in them, while the other two had consumer-grade RTX GPUs. Based on the Nvidia ACE design, and keying off of Nvidia’s Studio branding, Asus added ProArt and … Read more
Full color spec tightened by VESA
Before HDR, life was dull, bland, uninteresting, and uninspiring. Intel introduced HDR support with its 7th generation Intel Core processors that were launched in 2016. Both Nvidia and AMD also started to offer HDR support in 2016. In 2018, HDR monitors showed up at CES in 2017. In December 2017, VESA introduced the DisplayHDR specification, version 1.0. Finally, in 2018, … Read more
Is 2019 the year of the biggest Xilinx makes biggest FPGA, the VU19
Last week, we wrote about Cerebras’ giant 8.5-inch chip. And in previous issues, we’ve written about Nvidia’s monster 18.6 billion transistor GPU that is 754 mm2. Well, last week, Xilinx joined the big chip club and announced the expansion of its 16-nm Virtex UltraScale+ family to now include the world’s largest FPGA—the Virtex UltraScale+ VU19P. With 35 billion transistors, … Read more
Federal Bureau of Control
Remedy of Espoo Finland has brought us some great game like the Max Payne series, the creepy Alan Wake, and the failed time-machine in Quantum Break. Control is a bit different, and a bit enhanced with ray tracing effects brought to life through Nvidia’s RTX accelerators. The folks in Espoo have always created clever, edgy, and intelligent FPSs that challenge … Read more
China buys China—is the war over?
China owns considerable market share in world markets and these days, the country is capturing even more mind share, but what is China’s ultimate goal? It’s possible China wants most of all to own its own market.
Can’t we just turn on the TV?
A thousand channels and five remote say no
General purpose document scanner from IRIS
Thanks to a new camera scanner developed by IRIScan, one can scan any type of document (up to A4) or book, contracts, invoices, receipts, plans, newspapers, and magazines, without the need to cut them and damage them, and they can be bound or spiral-bound. There’s an automatic page change detection and the whole document can be converted into a Word, … Read more
Famous Graphics Chips: Matrox MGA
Dorval Canada-based Matrox is the oldest continuously operating graphics add-in board company in the world — they started in 1979 before IBM introduced the PC. Matrox's first AIB was the ALT-256 for S-100 bus computers, released in 1978. ATI started seven years later (also in Canada) and eight years after that Nvidia started. Hercules developed their AIB in 1982, … Read more