AMD’s Q3’22 results
Revenue down 15%, profits up 48%, forecast down 1.1% Q-Q
AMD’s Q3’22 results
Revenue down 15%, profits up 48%, forecast down 1.1% Q-Q
AIB shortage turns into a glut
How quickly the tide changes.
Everybody is a gamer
Even celebrities have their favorite titles.
Intel Q3 2022 financial results
Revenue $15.3 billion, up 0.25% year’s guidance and down next quarter.
The improved RADV open-source Radeon Vulkan driver
Older AMD AIBs run software ray tracing even better.
The Internet Archive isn’t just old websites
In the 1990s, Kathleen Maher ran Cadence magazine and, as a result, had boxes full of all the issues spanning a decade. Cadence captured the developing CAD-on-PC market shift, all new products, company introductions, mergers and acquisitions, and failures. A significant slice of the history pertaining to the development of the CAD industry. But seven big boxes of magazines take up … Read more
Intel Q3 2022 financial results
A lot of inventory. Q3’22 was a tough quarter for all semiconductor companies, including Intel. The company’s Q3 revenue was flat sequentially and modestly below the midpoint of its guidance. In June, Intel was one of the first companies to announce an abrupt and pronounced slowdown in demand, which has broadened beyond initial expectations and is now having an … Read more
Basemark introduced platform agnostic ray-tracing benchmark
In March 2022, Basemark announced their Vulkan-based ray-tracing benchmark called GPUScore. GPUScore supports all modern graphics APIs, such as Vulkan, Metal, and DirectX, and operating systems such as Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, and iOS. Basemark said at the time GPUScore will consist of three different testing suites. Today, the first one of these was launched, named Relic of Life. It … Read more
Intel’s XeSS is agnostic, but is it asymmetric?
At Intel’s Architecture Day in August 2021, the company announced it would include with the forthcoming GPU an AI-based upscaling capability called XeSS that was similar to Nvidia’s DLSS. Not only that, but it would be GPU agnostic and run on AMD and Nvidia GPUs. XeSS is a temporal (using information from the current and past frames) upscaling algorithm designed … Read more
Rumor: Apple Mac Pro to get a big GPU
Noted Apple follower Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman recently shared some of his inside information and opinions about Apple’s plans for the Mac Pro. “Work continues on the first Apple Silicon Mac Pro. As I reported ahead of the iPad and Apple TV launch this past week, Apple still has some Macs to debut over the next several months, including a new … Read more
China’s Biren to feel the heat of US sanctions
Founded in Shanghai in 2019, Biren Technology, also known as Biling Technology, is backed by China’s leading venture funds and government agencies, and raised 1.1 billion yuan (approximately $160 million) in its first round of funding. The company announced their first GPU-compute chip in August 2022 with impressive specifications. The BR100 was manufactured in TSMC’s 7 nm process and … Read more