Nvidia (re)invents linear scaling
Back to the future with classic imagine-processing
Nvidia’s pre-rendered low-latency frames
Back in 2015 or earlier, Nvidia introduced a nice feature to help keep frame rates up with the users’ expectations. They called it Maximum Pre-Rendered Frames, also known as Max Frames to Render Ahead. It controls the number of frames the CPU prepares in advanced of being rendered by the GPU. The default value is 3. The higher values … Read more
Jingjia Microelectronics introduces new GPU
A Chinese company, Changsha Jingjia Microelectronics Co. (Jingjia Micro), is claiming their upcoming GPU that is being fabricated at 28-nm will be capable of reaching Nvidia’s GTX 1080 performance levels. Founded in 2006 in the High-Tech Development District of Changsha, China, Changsha Jingjia Microelectronics Co., Ltd. has about 500 employees across all of its locations and generates about $60 … Read more
Insomniac Studios joins Sony Interactive
Spiderman to Stormland exclusive PS4-5 titles now
Intel’s new Lake processors span all segments
Intel has launched its 10th Core processors (U- and Y-series) for thin-and-light designs claiming they offer scaling for demanding, multithreaded workloads, including the flagship built-for-business Intel vPro platform The 10thGen Intel Core mobile processors include connectivity with Intel Wi-Fi 6 (Gig+) and Thunderbolt 3 for fast wired and wireless speeds. The company said over 90 designs will be available … Read more
Huawei’s Da Vinci AI accelerator explained at Hot Chips
Announced at Hot Chips last year and again at the Shanghai Full link Conference, the Da Vinci AI accelerator has been making the rounds. Huawei provided more details at Hot Chips this year. The company said their plan is to scale their technology from inference on wearables to training for the data centers. A big part of the design is the … Read more
Famous Graphics Chips: Microsoft’s Talisman — the most influential chip that never was
In 1996 as the 3D graphics chip market was in its ascendency, with new companies declaring devices every month, Microsoft shocked the industry by introducing a radically different approach — tiling. The conventional architecture for a graphics chip had been (and still is) what’s known as an immediate mode pipeline. The tiling approach composites 2D sub-images to the screen. Microsoft … Read more
Intel flexes its AI muscles at Hot Chips
At Hot Chips 2019, Intel revealed new details of its upcoming AI accelerators: Nervana neural network processors, with the NNP-T for training and the NNP-I for inference. Intel engineers also presented technical information on hybrid chip packaging technology, Intel Optane DC persistent memory and chiplet technology for optical I/O. Intel’s vice president and general manager, for the Artificial Intelligence … Read more
Cerebras reveals world’s ‘largest computer chip’ for AI tasks
At Hot Chips, Californian-based Cerebras Systems showed the world's most massive computer chip, the Wafer Scale Engine, that is slightly bigger than a standard iPad. The firm says a single chip can drive complex AI systems in everything from driverless cars to surveillance software. Started in 2016, by CEO Andrew Feldman and Sean Lie who previously founded SeaMicro (that AMD … Read more
Nothing says ray tracing like reflections
At the Gamescon conference in Cologne Germany Nvidia amazed the crowds with almost a dozen new games that have used ray tracing to enhance their story and overall appearance. One of the tricks to show off ray racing is to use highly reflective surface such as a window, an automobile, a wet sidewalk, or a still pond. Look not at, … Read more
If you don’t believe realtime ray tracing is real—see Chaos
Chaos has been a leader in ray tracing since they started the company 21 years ago in Sofia, Bulgaria. Their program, V-Ray, has been used in innumerable designs and a dozen movies. Seeing the Chaos people at Siggraph was always enjoyable, but predictable—exchange a few jokes, see some beautiful pictures, make a date for drinks, break the date. Not this … Read more
AMD says, to see sub-atomic reactions, go to Rome
AMD went to San Francisco last week to unveil its 7nm 64-core Rome processor. Claiming to be most secure, fastest, and most powerful single-chip processor available now, the top of the line model (the Epyc 7742) can hit 3.48 TFLOPS, running at 3.4 GHz, while drawing 240 watts. It has 128 lanes of PCIs 4.0 and can send data from … Read more