Nvidia has been extremely clever at squeezing an ROI out of its failed efforts to enter the mobile phone and tablet business. The slick cliché slingers call it pivoting, we call it making lemonade, our cliché is better. The tiny but mighty Arm-based Tega SoC that drank too much of a mobile phone’s battery does just fine in automobiles, … Read more
Microsoft is all-in on ray tracing, and well they should be as the dominating PC gaming platform and a significant console supplier. When Nvidia announced its RTX series Turing-based GPUs at Siggraph in July 2018, Microsoft was right behind with its Windows 10 OS and SDK to support for DirectX raytracing (aka DXR tier 1.0) in October 2018. Within one … Read more
Intel has tried several times to get into the stand-alone graphics chip market. Its first attempt in 1982 was the cross-licensing of the NEC 7220, which became the Intel 82720. Then in 1983, Intel made the iSBX 275 Multibus-based add-in graphics board (AIB) with the chip. Its second attempt was in 1988 when it released the 82786, which it billed as … Read more
AMD’s third-quarter earnings results matched Wall Street’s expectations and surprised a few others with its jump in profits. AMD reported its quarterly results for calendar Q3 2019, revenues and operating income were up year-over-year as well as its graphics and compute groups revenue. Profits and announced earnings per share were 18 cents on revenue of $1.8 billion. Analysts expected … Read more
Nvidia has been in the clouds for ten years or more and they know their way around. You may remember GRID, the VMware/Citrix remote computing solution that Nvidia was a part of. And then there’s GeForce Now, its game streaming platform. The company also offers Shield, cloud-based TV delivery, and of course, its render farms, cloud computer, and AI training. … Read more
Everybody dance now: the Intel machine seems back on track Intel released their third-quarter results (see TechWatch, Intel Q3 2019 results) and reported record results. In the analyst call, Intel’s CEO Bob Swan said the company is on target to return to a schedule of major manufacturing upgrades every 2 to 2.5 years. In addition, Swan said, “We are on … Read more
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
