UK tech leader takes Chinese lessons Our friends at Imagination Technologies Group have agreed to be acquired by China-backed private equity firm Canyon Bridge Capital Partners. Canyon Bridge said it will pay 182 pence a share in cash, or more than 550 million pounds ($740 million), for the U.K. designer of graphics chips. That’s 42% more than Imagination’s closing share … Read more
On being relevant in a changing world
When installing or evaluating a PC monitor, you have to find the input connectors. They are typically put at the bottom—the least accessible place there is. Therefore, you have to have enough table space to lay the monitor flat, face down, hoping you won’t accidently crack the screen. Then, usually with the aid of a strong flashlight, you search for … Read more
Proving being cool is the key The folsk at EVGA were bored one afternoon, and so Jacob Freeman (no acknowledged relation to Dr. Gordon 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, … Read more
A monitor-docker for professional graphics users
Our friends at @Xi Computer loaned us monster i9 machine that we used to compare against the AMD Threadripper (TR). It wasn’t a totally fair comparison in that the i9 7900x only has ten 3.3 GHz cores, and the AMD TR has 16, 3.7 GHz cores. But don’t jump to conclusions, the results are not as predictable as you might suspect.
We need a new category—SciFi is no longer applicable When I was a kid I read the comics (OK, I still do). We read them because we didn’t have TV, hadn’t even heard of it. Our phones were plugged into the wall and had a big round dial with holes in it. Try to imagine that as the norm, and … Read more
Put another monitor on your desk and watch your productivity increase (and your cool factor too) In late June, this year we launched our third survey on multi-monitor use and intentions. We found that the productivity one gets from having more display space is about 42%. We also found the usage of multiple monitors has increased from 20% in 2002 … Read more
More than Moore's Law is at play A workstation can be anything from a remote workstation in a virtual machine mode, to an ultra-powerful machine that is a small supercomputer. Moore’s law is the basic transistor enabler of the processor advancements, but the processors themselves get new features and functions with every generation. When Intel x86 processors were first deployed … Read more
You call that news? Actual TV usage is declining. As of this moment, there are estimated to be 323 million people in the U.S. And, according to Nielsen’s National Television Household Universe Estimates, there are ~120 million homes in the U.S. with (at least one) TV. That’s 2.7 people per household. And yet, U.S. Energy Information Administration – EIA, estimates … Read more
Denso plans to put Imagination in automobiles Denso, another one of those companies where the caps lock got stuck in the marketing department, has been stuffing electronics into automobiles, trucks, and other wheeled machines for over 56 years, and they’ve come to know a thing or two about how to do that. Recently the company formed a partnership with Imagination … Read more
We need a new category—SciFi no longer applicable When I was a kid, I read the comics (OK, I still do). We read them because we didn’t have TV, hadn’t even heard of it. Our phones were plugged into the wall and had a big round dial with holes in it. Try to imagine that as the norm, and then … Read more
