Almost one in three in front of a TV As of this moment, there are estimated to be 323 million people in the U.S. And, according to o 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, … Read more
Joins the ranks of the monster octal Micro-Star International (MSI) has re-introduced its GT75VR gaming notebook that it showed at Computex. It features a 17-inch display, Intel's top-end CPU and Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1080 or 1070 GPU, and claims its display features have a response time of 3 ms and a refresh rate of 120 Hz, while the device's 10GbE … Read more
AMD and Intel have launched a slew of new workstation CPUs Get ready for a stream of workstation news over the next few months. We have two new ones in the lab right now, and more on their way. One of the first to announce a new machine, is Lenovo. On Tuesday, September 12th, Lenovo announced two new products within … Read more
What is the reality of the virtual or mixed reality market? There are now four (that we know of) VR daily newsletters, and they seem to have an unlimited source of material to write about. Regardless of what you may think about VR, there are tens of thousands of people in the world who are investing their dollars, Won, Euros, … Read more
Are being used for different kinds of games now How the GPU defies gravity and continues to have an increasing market demand. Since the introduction of the PC, which was 1981 believe it or not, we estimate that 2.1 billion AIBs will have been shipped by the end of this year. That’s not the installed base, just the total of … Read more
The most honest benchmarks available I first encountered the SPEC Graphics and Workstation Group (SPEC/ GWPG) in 1987 while they were still managed by the National Computer Graphics Association (NCGA). They were a bunch of engineers who were trying to establish some stability and rationalization in the evaluation of graphics workstations. That was back when we had a half dozen … Read more
Former GPU developer has what they think is the next gen architecture Sacramento-based startup ThinCI unveiled its entry into the world of DNN accelerators Hot Chips in Cupertino. The fledgling company, with fewer than 70 people, has already taped out a proof of concept chip and is targeting availability of their first commercial SoC on development boards in Q4 this … Read more
AMD increased 8%; Nvidia increased 10%; and Intel increased 6% Up to now, the GPU and PC market had been showing a return to what has been normal seasonality. That pattern is typically flat to down in Q1, a significant drop in Q2 as OEMs and the channel deplete inventory before the summer months. A restocking with the latest products in … Read more
A new SoC that can game at HDR 4K 60Hz If you get in line around the 15 of November, you might be able to get a new Scorpio Xbox when it goes on sale the 17th. If you bought big-screen 4K monitor and have been longing to play games on it in its natural resolution and not scaled up, … Read more
We celebrate Dell at Siggraph Jeff Clarke graduated from University of Texas at San Antonio in 1986 as a young engineer, bummed around for a while and finally convinced Michael Dell to hire him—he never left and this is Clarke’s 30th anniversary at Dell, few have been there longer. In 1996, Clarke was listening to his customers tell him they’d … Read more
$1.22 billion in sales, $16 m GAAP loss for the quarter, sales up, and loss down from last quarter AMD reported its calendar Q2 2017, revenues and non-GAAP operating income were up as well as its graphics and compute groups revenue and profits. The company’s gross margin was 33%, up 2 percentage points y/y due to, the company says, a … Read more
At Siggraph, Nvidia showcased its software for AI, machine learning, robot programming etc., and it reminded attendees that it has had NVLink, a highspeed link for semiconductors since 2014. However, AMD and Nvidia are reaching partity with staggered product introductions but Nvidia is putting most of its energy into AI and HPC related workloads. As ever, Nvidia excels at building … Read more
