Jon Peddie

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.

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

Next generation video codec standard proposed

The demand for machine-oriented video processing and coding technology is increasing daily. There is a growing awareness that the majority of video traffic will be used by machines of all types. It is estimated that by 2022, 82% of all Global IP traffic will be video, according to a white paper updated by Cisco on February 27, 2019. Global IP … Read more

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

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