The revolving doors in Silicon Valley are nothing new, but within the last two or so years the migration at the superstar techno level has been particularly intense—especially in the GPU and CPU space. Some recent examples: Martin Ashton served as EVP of PowerVR Multimedia IP at Imagination Technologies Group Plc until December 1, 2016 where he was instrumental in … Read more
Qualcomm announced this week three new additions to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 and 400 tiers: the Snapdragon 632, 439, and 429 mobile platforms. These platforms, says the company, are engineered to bring higher performance, better battery life, more efficient designs, impressive graphics and AI capabilities into the highest selling Snapdragon tiers. Snapdragon 632: Based on their market research and customer … Read more
Last year, uSens introduced a stereo camera module capable of hand tracking. Now, uSens say they can achieve the same thing with just a smartphone's camera. At the Augmented World Expo in Santa Clara, uSens showed a beta version of its uSensAR Hand Tracking SDK, which enables developers to integrate hand tracking and 3D motion recognition for augmented and virtual … Read more
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Dell sold its first laptop in 1989, and it still looks good today. Dell's first laptop, the 316LT, 1989 For the past 30 years, Dell has made lots of laptops, notebooks, and tablets, so it’s learned a few things. Its also learned about user’s wants and needs. And, the company has stayed at the leading edge of technology. All … Read more
Acer has been surprising us for years with small-sized, high resolution bright projectors that don’t cost very much, and the V6810 is no exception. The latest from Acer America is a compact 4K UHD projector for home cinema can display up to 120-inch 4K UHD (3,840 × 2,160) with plenty of brightness—2,200 lumens to be exact ~642 Nits*. You need … Read more
Array Technology Inc. was founded in 1985 by K.Y. Ho, and the Lau brothers, Lee, Francis, and Benny, in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. The company subsequently moved to Markham, just north of Toronto, in 1993. The company built sub-assemblies for the still new PC industry and introduced one of the industry’s first graphics boards. By 1987, ATI had grown into an … Read more
Heard of DeepFakes? Face and/or body swapping of celebrities. It’s the product of deep learning-driven facial image manipulation and has become a thing online. In the last year convincing fake videos known as DeepFakes have been condemned as a threat to our ability to perceive reality, and a danger to democracy. The alarm is that invented events created by manipulated … Read more
Everyone wants to be the law, the Maxwell, the Ohm, the Shannon. Perhaps the most famous non-law law is the oft touted Moore’s law. Moore made an observation about semiconductor manufacturing densities and projected that observation. It was Caltech professor Carver Mead who in 1975 popularized the term “Moore's law,” and Intel’s marketing folks knowing a good thing when they … Read more
Fujitsu Limited and the RIKEN center for computational science, announced the joint development of post-K, a supercomputer that the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) has set forth as a successor to the K computer, is moving forward. The goal is to be in full operation around 2021. Fujitsu Post-K ARM Supercomputer, Exascale by 2021 Fujitsu … Read more
Based on HPE's Apollo 70 the Astra supercomputer will be comprised of 2,592 dual-socket nodes, containing 145,000 cores—the largest such system the company has delivered. Each node will have two 28-core Cavium ThunderX2 processors running at 2.0 GHz. The nodes will draw 1.2 MW of power. The Astra supercomputer is the first deployment of the of the Department of Energy’s … Read more
Basemark just released its Basemark GPU, a new graphics performance evaluation tool for systems with Vulkan 1.0, OpenGL 4.5, or OpenGL ES 3.1 graphics APIs. This tool, says the company, enables the industry to objectively and reliably quantify and compare graphics performance of next-generation mobile, automotive, and desktop processors. “We have poured all of our soul and expertise in making … Read more
