$1.65 billion in sales, $121 million GAAP profit for the quarter, sales and profit up from last quarter. AMD reported its calendar Q1 2018, and got a round of applause from investors, in the form of a bump in their stock price. Revenues and operating income were up as well as its graphics and compute groups revenue and profits. The first quarter … Read more
The triumphant now wear blue badges
The triumphant now wear blue badges Raja Koduri was the vanguard who left AMD in December and popped up at Intel in January, and he’s lured a few of his old friends to join him. This month Sr. Director, Global Product Marketing, Chris Hook, left AMD after 20 years of service, and is now at Intel, working with Koduri. And … Read more
Using a little code to make big impressions Our friends at SuperD have been relentlessly toiling away at the math and code of their amazing sub-surfacing tool. We first reported on this in our July 5, 2017 issue. Originally thought of as a teaching tool, President & founder Kun Gao PhD, of Boulder Graphics showed us their latest release of … Read more
CorelDraw is a BIG program, over 170 MB—over two times bigger than Word, and it takes a minute and half to load. Popular with graphics artist for almost 30 years, it was one of the fist vector graphics programs to run on a PC. The multi-layer program comes with more tricks and tools than I have time or stamina to … Read more
MegaMol from the Visualization Research Center of the University of Stuttgart The Visualisation Research Centre (VISUS) is a central institution of the University of Stuttgart. About 30 scientists research in different areas of scientific visualization, visual analytics, visual computing and computer graphics, as well as interdisciplinary, applied research. VISUS owns a large-area projection screen that is able to display about … Read more
The idea of using external graphics as a means of beefing up a laptop or desktop computer is not new, but it has been revitalized by the availability of Thunderbolt on modern machines. In 2008 ATI developed an external graphics box that connected to a laptop via what ATI called eXternal Graphics Port (XGP). Fujitsu and MSI built lap tops … Read more
Act two of the Zen One year after the release of the AMD’s Ryzen processors, the company announced the 2nd generation AMD Ryzen desktop processors. This second-generation Ryzen desktop processor lineup includes two 8-core, 16-thread models and two 6-core, 12-thread models, all offering major upgrades, AMD SenseMI technology, and other features. AMD’s 2nd generation Ryzen processor line up The entire … Read more
The evolution of future processors Is it a revolution — or just evolution? The GPU with its hyper-dense compute capacity and relatively low cost, is an amazingly powerful workload accelerator for certain classes of problems — those that lend themselves to massive parallel processing and multi-threaded workloads. When programmable vertex shaders were first introduced in 2002 (by 3Dlabs), and the … Read more
Nvidia's big, bad Xavier is the first of a breed of processors that will power the modern world At GTC 2016, Nvidia previewed “Xavier,” an SoC that integrates a 512-core Volta GPU and an 8-core ARM CPU. Skipping the amusing retort given by most companies when questioned about leaks—we don’t pre-announce products—probably because press, analysts, and fans have been hearing … Read more
There’s ray tracing, and then there’s ray tracing Just like there are seventeenilon types of anti-aliasing, there are eighteenilon ways to do ray tracing. Some great ways, some really great ways, believe me, there are some really great ways to do ray tracing, the best ways. We’ve told you about Microsoft’s API extension DRX, and Nvidia’s accelerator for it, NRX, … Read more
Nvidia's big, bad Xavier is the first of a breed of processors that will power the modern world At GTC 2016, Nvidia previewed “Xavier,” an SoC that integrates a 512-core Volta GPU and an 8-core ARM CPU. Skipping the amusing retort given by most companies when questioned about leaks—we don’t pre-announce products—probably because press, analysts, and fans have been hearing … Read more
