In the beginning, back in when the fabulous 286 was introduced in 1982, several companies sought to clone it, AMD being the most successful. That started the MHz wars, and we users and the happy replicants of the war, the ISVs, enjoyed the bi-annual clock increases and subsequent performance boosts. Ah, those were the days when we have a simple … Read more
Huawei has announced its Honor Play smartphone will employ the company's new “GPU Turbo” technology. Huawei and Honor claim to have improved the graphics processing efficiency by 60 percent while reducing the SoC energy consumption by 30 percent with the new GPU Turbo Boosts. Honor Play smart phone The company says the GPU Turbo technology is built on hardware-software integrated … Read more
In March 2018, TECHnalysis Research conducted an online survey of 1,000 US consumers that identified themselves as gamers and who owned some type of augmented reality or virtual reality capable device. Ages of the respondents ranged from 18 to 74, with nearly 60% falling in the 18–34 range; For VR users, it was discovered that most users had tried a … Read more
Researchers from the Holst Centre in Belgium, an open innovation initiative of IMEC and TNO in Netherlands, have demonstrated a new class of flexible, large-area sensor technology for detecting finger- and palmprints. It is less than 0.2 mm thick and doesn’t use prisms or any moving parts. The sensors can be built into mobile phones and notebooks, or door handles to … Read more
Seven words set the web on fire
In an unprovoked tweet, in the style of a certain golf playing president who now likes kimchi, senior vice president of the Core and Visual Computing Group, general manager of edge computing solutions and chief architect at Intel Raja M. Koduri set off a meme by tweeting from Intel News, “Intel's first discrete GPU coming in 2020:” Every pundit, blogger, … Read more
Penguin Computing (Freemont), led by CEO Tom Coull, has been around since 1998. Prior to Penguin, Tom was a serial entrepreneur, and also founded Sense 8, a leading VR company of the day. Penguin carved out a place in HPC with some clever innovations like its POD or Penguin on Demand, making high-density HPC available as a cloud service. SGI … Read more
But it Can Get You a Curved Display You’ll Fall in Love With
In 2014, a disruptive approach to HPC enabled IBM to be awarded two contracts to build the next generation of supercomputers as part of the US Department of Energy’s Collaboration of Oak Ridge, Argonne, and Lawrence Livermore (known as CORAL program). In partnership with Nvidia and Mellanox, IBM demonstrated to CORAL that a data-centric … Read more
Smartphone attachment sees concealed weapons and explosives
Twelve years ago, some game developers at EA DICE not being able to find an engine that would do all things they wanted to, decided they would just have to develop their own engine, they called it Frostbite. Two years later they brought it out inside Battlefield: Bad Company, one of the first and most successful cross platform games ever. … Read more
We’re catching up with science-fiction. The idea of being able to hold a personal device and scan a room and the people in it, to learn in real time if any of them are of interest, or more darkly, carrying anything dangerous really is the stuff science-fiction. And yet, it’s here now. Founded in early 2017 in West Hollywood-based RH … Read more
