As you know, X-ray, MRI, and CAT scans are reproduced in monochrome, between 12 and 16 bits/pixel, which corresponds to 4,096–65,536 shades of gray. But what if, instead of a black and white X-ray picture, you and/or a doctor could have images that identified the tissues being scanned? Such a color X-ray imaging technique could presumably produce clearer and more … Read more
EVGA celebrated its nineteenth anniversary this week,and held a scavenger hunt on its web page by placing 10 hidden badges on their website. The company is offering a huge list of prizes including gaming PCs, Processors, a Monitor, sound bar, SSDs, memory, VR headset, keyboards, gear, and EVGA bucks. The company also introduced an Anniversary Retro Wave Gaming event on the … Read more
Anyone who follows the mainstream technical press will have noticed the recent wave of stories and editorials about the decline in interest and sales of VR hardware. This is not surprising to me, and in a “told-ya-so” way, I’ll tell you it has been my forecast for a couple of years. I believe interactive-VR (IVR) will return to its original … Read more
The door swings both ways
The heart of neural networks
Almost as a sequel to my editorial about the Talent Wars, AMD announced Martin Ashton, the former Vice President of the Core and Visual Computing Group responsible for graphics architecture and IP development at Intel, has joined AMD. Prior to Intel, Martin worked for 23 years at Imagination Technologies as the Executive Vice President of the PowerVR business unit. Since … Read more
HP has been expanding its workstation line using both professional 8th generation E2100 Xeon CPUs and 8th generation Core processors, equipped with either AMD Radeon Pro AIBs, Nvidia Quadro AIBs, or Intel HD graphics for the budget-minded. HP has established the platform for factor, and then broadened each one with a wide range of option in processor type, GPUs, and … Read more
Samsung is the first to announce the availability of JEDEC GDDR6 CMOS 8 Gb through 16 Gb x16 dual channel SGRAM (Synchronous Graphics Random Access Memory) memory devices for use in advanced graphics processing for gaming devices and graphics cards as well as automotive, network and artificial intelligence systems. “Beginning with this early production of the industry’s first 16Gb GDDR6,” … Read more
Tesla, the canary in the mine?
Just as the PC industry was showing signs of improving
Used for far more than graphics now
I was reminiscing last week about the GPU and having a friendly debate with my pals at Nvidia about the origin of the acronym. They of course claim they invented it, the device and the acronym, and within certain qualifications they did. The term was first used by Sony in 1994 with the launch of the PS1. That system had … Read more
