Misconceptions about Microsoft’s recent update Microsoft’s update for Windows 10, the Spring Edition, is going to add new artificial intelligence capabilities which is it calling Windows ML. These capabilities will be open to developers allowing them to use pre-trained machine learning models in their apps for Windows-based devices such as PCs, workstations, and servers and including HoloLens and IoT edge … Read more
Samsung and Portrait displays team up for HDR calibration in your home Portrait Displays announced its expanded partnership with Samsung Electronics for color calibration in TV displays through its CalMAN software. The auto calibration tool is expected to become available simultaneously with Samsung’s 2018 QLED TV lineup. Portrait Displays‘ CalMAN software is the video calibration solution used by most professional … Read more
More of a computing device than a graphics processor now? Khronos has just released version 1.1 of its high-performance GPU API, Vulkan. The heir apparent to OpenGL, and OpenGL ES, this thin and light API exposes the many features and benefits of a modern GPU like no other API and takes it into the GPU compute domain with a new … Read more
No longer a cheap discount disguise I’ve heard and used the term, MSPR (Manufacturer’s suggested retail price) for at least three decades that I can recall. In the past it has meant a discount was being offered, as in, we’re giving it to you at the manufacturers price. And as with all such promises, smelled a little off. Cryptocurrency-mining’s use … Read more
Introduces 700 platform, a subset of 800 platform for IoT automotive and embedded Qualcomm’s new 700 series is targeted at OEMs and the company claims it offers premium features, such as on-device artificial intelligence, in high-tier smartphones and can meet the ever-increasing demands of China’s smartphone ecosystem for more premium devices. The new Qualcomm Snapdragon 700 Mobile Platform Series offers … Read more
The brutality of numbers: You need to make $5,000 a year to make it crypto-mining worthwhile. We have been investigating the impact on the AIB market by cryptocurrency monitoring for a while and we’ve written about it often. The following is an excerpt from an updated and curated monograph collection of our writings to give a perspective to the phenomenon … Read more
PC shipment models are out of synch What will the run up in AIB prices do to PC pricing? Probably not very much immediately, as the OEMs negotiate their deals six months ahead of shipping a PC and buy direct instead of through the opportunistic distribution channels, which have enthusiastically raised prices. However, smaller white box (WB), custom system integrators … Read more
PC shipment models are out of synch What will the run up in AIB prices do to PC pricing? Probably not very much immediately, as the OEMs negotiate their deals six months ahead of shipping a PC and buy direct instead of through the opportunistic distribution channels, which have enthusiastically raised prices. However, smaller white box (WB), custom system integrators … Read more
The brutality of numbers: You need to make $5,000 a year to make it crypto-mining worthwhile. We have been investigating the impact on the AIB market by cryptocurrency monitoring for a while and we’ve written about it often. The following is an excerpt from an updated and curated monograph collection of our writings to give a perspective to the phenomenon … Read more
Company expands its footprint AMD has introduced two new product families—the AMD EPYC Embedded 3000 processor and AMD Ryzen Embedded V1000 processor. AMD EPYC Embedded 3000 brings the power of “Zen” to a variety of new markets including networking, storage and edge computing devices, while AMD Ryzen Embedded V1000 targets medical imaging, industrial systems, digital gaming and thin clients, according … Read more
Compression, HDR, USB-c, automotive and more The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) announced that the growing trend of viewing higher-resolution digital content over mobile devices is fueling the adoption of DisplayPort and other VESA standards in the consumer electronics space. DisplayPort Alt Mode, which enables simultaneous video, power and data delivery to be carried over the USB Type-C connector (USB-C), … Read more
Fine-grained voltage and frequency controls As always, Intel presented papers at the world famous and prestigious IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference — ISSCC. One Intel paper was particularly interesting to us. It was titled, An Energy-Efficient Graphics Processor Featuring Fine-Grain DVFS with Integrated Voltage Regulators, Execution-Unit Turbo, and Retentive Sleep in 14nm Tri-Gate CMOS Bet you can’t say that … Read more
