Basemark compares GPUs across platforms, OS, and APIs
Apples to oranges because they can
144Hz? Time to revisit FPS, PPI, and HDR
Acuity is what’s desired
Qualcomm’s XR HMD knows where you’re looking
Building a VR HMD, which Qualcomm and others like to call XR, involves having a screen either in front of or piped to the wearer’s eyes. The size of the image and its PPI determine the FoV, and wider is better but more expensive in materials cost and processing (and all the things needed for the processing like memory, power, … Read more
Can LetinAR deliver lightweight consumer glasses?
If AR glasses are ever to become common accessories for daily life and work, they are going to have to be lightweight, comfortable, and indistinguishable from prescription or sunglasses. For those glasses to be really useful, they’re going to have to be powerful—able to deliver a blended view of digital information with the real world. LetinAR, a Korean company, says … Read more
Qualcomm’s XR2 5G headset reference design
(Source: Marko C, Ljubljana) Qualcomm Technologies unveiled a new extended reality (XR) reference design headset based on the Snapdragon XR2 Platform. The company has been successful with its XR program and claims design wins for more than 30 headsets—including major brands such as Oculus Quest, Oculus Go, HoloLens 2, and Vive Focus. Many, if not all, of the design … Read more
AMD and Nvidia keep Navy afloat in Mississippi
Powering new superdupercomputer
Famous graphics chips: Nintendo 64
Silicon Graphics had been a leader and highly respected workstation developer that rose to fame and fortune based on its introduction of a VLSI geometry processor in 1981. In the ensuing years, it developed leading graphics technologies at the high end. A high-end super high-performance workstation could cost over $100,000. Therefore, the idea of adapting such state of the art … Read more
Famous graphics chips: Nintendo 64
Breakthrough design, genuinely disruptive
Nvidia’s Q4 FY20 results
$3.1 billion in sales, $950 million profit, up 6% from last quarter
Nvidia’s Q4 FY20 results
Nvidia rides the AI wave Nvidia reported revenue from all platforms up for the quarter and beat Wall Street’s expectations. The company’s GPU business revenue was $2.7 billion, up 8% from last quarter, and up 40% from last year. The quarter was the first increase in year-over-year sales since Q3’18. “Adoption of Nvidia accelerated computing drove excellent results, … Read more
Intel’s stacked chip is sexy
Image credit: phee hawberries Intel’s newest chip family, code-named Lakefield, is built with Intel’s Foveros technology. They are built in a totally new way, says Intel; not with the various IPs spread out flat in two dimensions, but with them stacked in three dimensions. Think of a chip designed as a layer cake (a 1-mm-thick layer cake) versus a … Read more
Google Glass seeks niche
AR has been a topic of interest, charm, and intrigue since Ivan Sutherland put stereoscopic floating wire-frame cubes in front of Bob Sproull’s eyes in 1968. Since then dozens, maybe even hundreds, of designs have been tried while the concept of AR expanded from a head-mounted display to head-up displays in fighter aircraft and high-end automobiles to smartphones and helmets. … Read more