Moore’s law is getting expensive
Not only taking longer, costing more too—do we care?
Nvidia’s Q3 FY18 results
$2.64 billion in sales, $838 million profit-up 44% from last quarter Nvidia reported record revenue for the third quarter ended October 29, 2017, of $2.64 billion, up 32 percent from $2.00 billion a year earlier, and up 18 percent from $2.23 billion in the previous quarter, with growth across all its platforms. The company’s GPU business revenue was $2.22 billion, … Read more
VR is still a DIY situation, but getting more robust
Tinkerers and game enthusiasts love VR. The only genuine consumer VR system in the market today is Sony’s PS4 VR, everything else is a patchwork of items bought from various suppliers and bolted together by the user. And that’s perfectly OK unless you’re Mark Zuckenbeger who is being asked by his shareholders, “you spent $2 billion dollars on a WHAT, … Read more
Koduri to lead Intel to the promised AI land
Raja Koduri leaves AMD surfaces at Intel, which raises new possibilities about Intel’s ambitions.
Koduri to lead Intel to the promised AI land
After posting a good-bye letter to the people of AMD about his 40-day alleged sabbatical, Raja Koduri popped up as an employee at Intel. You don’t hire someone at that level in one day, Intel doesn’t vet new employees in a week, ask some of the people who work there. Which means the conversations between Koduri and Intel have been … Read more
Passing the baton
One of the great designers, visionaries, and most joyful people in the world is Raja Koduri. He is also a personal friend. Raja, after too many years of 25-hour days, and with a pile of world-class successes behind him has decided to take a new direction in life, and has moved back to India to care for family members and … Read more
Intel builds heterogenous chip
A new CPU–GPU multichip for high-end notebooks and small form-factor desktop. As much as it pains me to give Kyle Bennet credit for anything other than being the fastest driver in Texas, it turns out he may also be the fastest news reporter too. Way back in July 2016 when Nvidia was telling us how great their new Pascal GTX thingies … Read more
Another win for Qualcomm
As older companies evolve, NIH gets tossed aside. Unable to sustain the massive R&D costs of being a front-line semiconductor and system supplier, Via Technologies has given up on their S3 and Via graphics and their low-power x86 processors in favor of an OTS high volume, and very powerful SoC from Qualcomm. Hoping to participate in the automotive subsystems market … Read more
I am definitely seeing more
Am I doing more?
Intel joins the Open Neural Network Exchange Format (ONNX)
Intel is putting its weight behind ONNX to help unify AI frameworks and accelerate the development of deep learning models Intel recently announced that it is joining the Open Neural Network Exchange Format (ONNX). The ONNX was introduced by Microsoft and Facebook last month, and aims to help unify new AI development through increased interoperability between AI frameworks. Intel’s addition … Read more
PCIe next gen is here—for.oh
Now in its 25th year the durable spec keeps on giving. PCI is yet another foundation gift Intel has given the PC industry (like USB and WiFi) that has been extensible, and useful for over a quarter of a century. When the PC industry started in 1981, we had the 8-bit ISA bus. It evolved and for the next few … Read more
VR games
Wish I could play some Several VR games that have been introduced look quite interesting. I’d really like to try some of them except it is such a pain to set up the VR system, get everything adjusted and then actually play the game. I’m just too lazy and impatient. It’s a shame, because what I and I’m assuming many … Read more