Raja Koduri leaves AMD and RTG
AMD CEO Lisa Su will head RTG until a successor is found
Intel builds heterogenous chip
Science fiction comes to life and Intel leverages its manufacturing capabilities and top of the line parts to create a new PC segment. Intel will be buying custom chips from AMD, and marrying them with high band width memory (HBM2), and Intel’s 8th gen H-series CPU into a super-thin package.
Softer, less scary assistants
We need a friendlier name
Intel Q3 2017 results
$16.1 billion in sales, $4.5 billion profit, sales and profits up from last quarter. In its calendar Q3 2017, Intel reported that its revenues and profits were up and in all of its business centers and feels it is on track in its transition away from being a PC-only chip supplier. “We executed well in the third quarter with strong … Read more
AMD Q3 2017 results
$1.22 billion in sales, $16 million GAAP profit for the quarter, sales and profit up from last quarter. AMD reported its calendar Q3 2017. Revenues and operating income were up as well as its graphics and compute groups revenue and profits. “Strong customer adoption of our new high-performance products drove significant revenue growth and improved financial results from a year … Read more
A look at monitor options
I’m seeing more; am I doing more? Anyone who has known me has most likely heard me say, the more you can see, the more you can do. That rule applies to monitors, and almost any vehicle you can think of, where “doing” in a vehicle translates into staying out of danger. In monitors it translates into productivity. Most people … Read more
Pixel phones are plain
Nothing really revolutionary about the basic phones, but the camera’s way cool. Google’s new phones, the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 processor with 4GB of RAM. The Pixel 2 has a 5-inch 1920 × 1080 OLED display (441 ppi), a 64GB version is priced $649; a 128GB model $749. They are available in three colors … Read more
What you call VR, I call a CAVE
Back in the fall of 1991, when many of you were still in school, and the old guys reading this were trying to figure out how to get two or more AIBs to work together, Tom DeFanti, Dan Sandin and colleagues designed the very first — and trademarked — CAVE (cave automatic virtual environment), and built it at the University … Read more
AMD APUs roll out
Raven Ridge is the codename for AMD's Ryzen 7 2700U Processor with Radeon Vega Graphics. In choosing a name AMD wanted to highlight the Vega graphics as a discrete graphics alternative. We however expect abbreviated forms to be used, and would have been happy with Raven Ridge. Still, the point is important: marrying an x86 processor with a GPU in … Read more
Photorealism for the masses gets closer
With increased performance and clever algorithms Ray tracing has been one of the white whales of computer graphics. Since its introduction in the early 1980s, ray tracing has promised to bring photorealistic rendering on a broadscale, and it’s always been twoyears in the future. In those years, we have nonetheless seen it get faster, while screen resolutions have also increased. … Read more
EVGA goes crazy fast— or maybe just crazy
Proving being cool is the key The folks at EVGA were bored one afternoon, and so Jacob Freeman said, “Hey, I know what we can do with that liquid Nitrogen left over from the beer party—let freeze some 1080Tis. Freeman’s excited voice woke Joe Darwin from his caffeine deprived coma and he said, “Sure, call Vince and see his burns … Read more
Intel’s 8th Gen desktop Core family offers premium performance
Intel is rolling out its new family of 8th Gen Intel Core desktop processors for gamers, digital content creators, and overclockers. The processors will be available for purchase on October 5, 2017. The company is introducing the Core i3 8100 and 8350K, Core i5 8400 and 8600K, and the Core i7 8700 and 8700K. Along with the new processors, Intel … Read more