In our recent article, Remote graphics changing the landscape we mentioned Nvidia’s GeForce Now system and told you that through GeForce Now, you can access games you own on say Steam for example. The game is transferred from Steam to the Nvidia server. From Steam’s point of view, you are running on just another PC and it requires your normal … Read more
Nvidia’s introduction of the Turing processor reveals the seemingly endless extensibility of the GPU. We saw the integration of video decoders and then encoders, audio amplifiers and multiple spatial sound features, and the addition of special functions and filters, as well as memory management, and high-speed interfaces. With Turing, Nvidia added two new processor types, a matrix-multiplier they call the … Read more
Every year, Futuremark, now part of UL Labs and simply known as “UL,” added new benchmark tests to its iconic 3DMark. Each test was designed for a specific class of hardware or a particular API. Since 2013, they’ve added tests that use DirectX 12, tests that run at 4K, tests for notebooks, tablets, and smartphones, as well as new features … Read more
In my recent editorial on future AIB prices in the U.S. due to the tariff war between Trump and China, I forecasted a decline in sales this holiday season and next year if the tariffs stay in place. In the mercurial environment the U.S. finds itself, with special cutouts and mood swings by Trump, the “if” is a big factor. … Read more
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To the best of our recollection, HP was the first to offer a remote graphics solution that wasn’t based on X-Windows. In the Spring of 2004, HP came up with the idea to allow users of their workstations to share a view. They called it “HP Remote Graphics,” or RGS, and what it did was give a remote colleague the … Read more
Apple announced its new iPhones and sold 35 million of them—pent-up demand? Have people been that hungry for a $1.000 pocket warmer that can take pictures and play music? I guess so. Apple announced the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR. These new iPhones will replace the iPhone X, which Apple pulled from its store after the announcement. … Read more
Its versatility has lead it to multiple and various platforms
Its versatility has led it to multiple and various platforms
The original use and development for the GPU was to accelerate 3D games and rendering. The acceleration of the game’s 3D models involved geometry processing, matrix math, and sorting. Rendering involved polishing pixels and hiding some of them. Two distinctive, non-complimentary tasks, but both served admiralty by a high-speed parallel processor configured as a SIMD—same instruction, multiple data, architecture. The … Read more
Hector Ruiz, AMD’s second CEO after the legendary Jerry Sanders (who said, “Only real men have fabs”) sold off the company’s fab 11 years ago and introduced the concept of “asset light.” The former Dresden fab became GlobalFoundries with financial backing from the Mubadala Investment Company in the The United Arab Emirates. Mubadala invested more in GF, bought Singapore-based Chartered … Read more
Using an airplane to take pictures of the ground and then translate the images into maps was first reported as being done by the French photographer and balloonist Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, in 1858 over Paris. Aerial photography 1918 (source National Geo-Spatial) During World War 1, the English (and the Germans) used aerial reconnaissance extensively and during that time, in 1912, Frederick … Read more
