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
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
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
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
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
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 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
Nvidia reported revenue from all platforms up for the quarter. The company’s GPU business revenue was $2.1 billion, up 4% from last quarter, but down 21% from last year. “We achieved sequential growth across our platforms,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia. “Realtime ray tracing is the most important graphics innovation in a decade. Adoption has reached a … Read more
Just for a reference point, you should know that the Hubble optical telescope is 11,4777 × 7,965 or 94.4-Mpixels Last week, Samsung introduced a new image sensor with the highest resolution for mobile phones; more than anything on the market—64-Mpixels. The ISOCELL Bright GW1 sensor uses the same 0.8-μm-sized pixels as Samsung’s current 48-Mpixel sensor, so the 64-Mpixel sensor … Read more
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AMD reported its quarterly results for calendar Q2 2019, revenues and operating income were down year-over-year as well as its graphics and compute groups revenue and profits. “I am pleased with our financial performance and execution in the quarter as we ramped production of three leadership 7-nm product families,” said Dr. Lisa Su, AMD president and CEO. “We have reached … Read more
One year later, the ecosystem has exploded
