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
A clever Dutch game developer based in Eindhoven developed a new, very efficient compression engine, originally targeted for handheld games. He named the engine Pivooto and used the name for their company too. Hugo Smits, the CEO and founder, came up with the name Pivooto by combining the words photo and pivot. Files uses the extension .piv. Pivooto is a … Read more
If one looks at the distribution of AIBs, AMD has about 35% market share based on Q1’18 shipments. Not all those AIBs were used for gaming, but most of them were. Q1’18 market share desktop discrete AIBs However, if one looks at the volunteered data of Steam users, AMD has about 15% market share (and Intel 11%). Steam conducts … Read more
