HP has been pushing on design as well as technology to find their competitive niche. The company’s new consumer laptops with wood finishes are a delight to see and hold. Now comes the commercial version and along the way they’ve lost a little weight and gained some time. The new 13-inch Elite Dragonfly notebook weighs less than a kilogram (~ … Read more
If you’ve ever played with or installed wi-fi operated lights like GE smart bulb or Philips’ Hue, then you’ve had the pleasure and fun of making them change color and brightness on command or by a timer. What if you could have those effects while you were playing a game? What if when you went into a dark tunnel or … Read more
Three years ago, we had maybe six or less AI accelerators, today there’s over two dozen, and more are coming. One of the first commercially available AI training accelerators was the GPU, and the undisputed leader of that segment was Nvidia. Nvidia was already preeminent in machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) applications and adding neural net acceleration was … Read more
On the bright side, the market for 7nm semis is booming; on the flip side, capacity is constrained
Source: Apple When Apple introduced its iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max last week, with its triple-lens camera array, it stunned amateur, and professional photographers and filmmakers, until they saw the $1,100 price—that dampened their enthusiasm a bit. Claiming to be the first triple-camera system, Apple said one can capture up to four-times more scene, get beautiful images in drastically lower … Read more
Extensive testing by Mark Poppin reveals the differences
Remember when it cost almost a half a million dollars for Flame?
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
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
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 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
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
