Nvidia record revenue from all platforms—datacenter, gaming, professional visualization, automotive. Revenue of $3.12 billion, up 40 % from a year ago. The company’s GPU business revenue was $2.66 billion, up 40 % from a year earlier but down 4 % sequentially, however, the company claimed gains across all platforms, including datacenter, gaming, and professional visualization platforms. GeForce GPU gaming results … Read more
New super-wide FOV HMD well received
In 2011, a scant seven years ago, Florida-based Magic Leap wow’ed the world and investors with fake videos of its planned augmented reality (AR) headset. The videos were so good, investors fell over themselves trying to stuff money into Magic Leap’s bank account, and they succeeded to the tune of something north of $2.3 billion US-dollars—making it the richest startup … Read more
Workstation users buy workstations and/or workstation accessories and peripherals for two main reasons: reliability and performance. Price is usually a low consideration because the relative cost of the hardware to the labor cost of the user and the application costs is quite small, especially over time. But reliability is critical, for all the above reasons. At Siggraph 2018 in Vancouver, … Read more
Yet another former AMD executive has gone to Intel. Mark Hirsch will be Intel’s new VP of competitive software programs. Hirsch was corporate VP of systems engineering for AMD's Radeon graphics technology group. Intel has made several recent hires of former AMD talent, including Raja Koduri, AMD's former chief GPU architect who is now leading Intel's Core and Visual Computing … Read more
Sony recently announced the IMX586 stacked CMOS image sensor for smartphone cameras featuring 48 effective megapixels[1], and claiming to be the industry’s highest pixel count. The new product achieved a world-first (according to Sony research) ultra-compact pixel size of 0.8 μm The IMX586 is surprisingly tiny given its megapixel count. (Source: Sony) onto a 1/2-type (8.0 mm diagonal) unit, thereby … Read more
PTC is coming to the culmination of a near-decade-long transition of its technology and its business model. PTC’s Mark Brunelli has written a good history of the company’s transition, which is useful if you’re not familiar with this company’s many transitions over the years. With this financial report, PTC has announced the coming end of perpetual licensing on January 1, … Read more
As we try to mitigate our excitement in the run up to Siggraph, which can only be compared to the weeks before Christmas, subtle hints and leaks are dribbling out of some of the exhibitors and paper presenters as they employ guerilla marketing techniques to vie for big(er) headlines when the actual event happens. Announcements from Pixar, Intel, Microsoft, Nvidia, … Read more
Eleven years ago, the Larrabee project was started in 2007. In 2010, the company killed the project. Then in 2011, Intel introduced the Xeon Phi, an accelerator card based on the 22-nm “Knights Corner” chip. A vestige of Intel’s ill-fated Larrabee project, Knights Corner was the first realization of Intel’s Many Integrated Cores (MIC) architecture. MIC was a cache-coherent multiprocessor … Read more
Elon Musk teases Easter eggs in Tesla update
Intel reported its calendar Q2 2018, revenues were up 15% year-over-year driven, says the company, by strength across the business and customer demand for performance-leading Intel platforms. ”After five decades in tech, Intel is poised to deliver our third record year in a row. We are uniquely positioned to capitalize on the need to process, store and move data, which … Read more
AMD reported a record quarter for calendar Q2 2018, revenues and operating income were up as well as its graphics and compute groups revenue and profits. ”We had an outstanding second quarter with strong revenue growth, margin expansion and our highest quarterly net income in seven years.” – Lisa Su Every metric was up including the company’s gross margin which … Read more
