AMD announced the Fusion project in 2006 after the acquisition of ATI: the integrating of a GPU with the CPU. However, Intel beat AMD to it and in January 2011 introduced the Clarkdale with an integrated GPU. AMD came out in June 2011 with the Llano and called it an APU—Accelerated Processing Unit. AMD always had more shader cores than … Read more
Wouldn’t it be easier if your gaming PC wasn’t in a tin box?
When EVGA was founded in 1999 it was the first to introduce heat pipe cooling and iCX Technology along with 4-Way SLI. In 2012, EVGA introduced its first Power Supply. Through quality and features, EVGA has become a top choice for Power Supplies when gamers are building their systems. EVGA continues the tradition of top-tier hardware for gamers. With the launch … Read more
HP did a refresh of their popular Z workstation line and introduced gen 12 based Z2s in a flat charcoal black finish. The Z2 Tower is the top of the line and come with a choice of i5, i7, or i9 gen 12 Intel processors, and up to 128 GB of ECC SDDR5 RAM. They can also be equipped with … Read more
Intel takes Covid very seriously. (Source: Intel) Intel reported its fiscal year and fourth-quarter results for 2021. The company beat Wall Street expectations on revenue, and gross margin, even though it was down from Q3’21. Hitting $20.5 marked the highest quarterly and full-year revenue ever for the company. Intel advanced its IDM 2.0 strategy and announced a new U.S. … Read more
HP blasted out several new PCs and workstations after CES and among them was a slick new AiO. HP invented the AiO (in 1972 with the HP9830) and has been at the forefront of it since. The company’s latest offering is the EliteOne AiO 800 Evolution—doesn’t that trickly little name just roll right off the tongue. Regardless of the silly … Read more
Khronos launches a Vulkan roadmap policy
“WorkSpace” by Gamma-Ray Productions is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0 From the organization that stabilized the API wars in 2000 and empowered the extraordinary growth of the smartphone market comes a vision of the future. Khronos has grown to over 180 members in one of the most extraordinary non-profit organizations for 3D graphics, augmented and virtual reality, parallel programming, … Read more
Red on red gets red approval One of the reasons AMD wanted to acquire Xilinx is because Xilinx’s company color is red and AMD calculated in their offer prices how money could be saved by not having to do a rebranding of Xilinx’s collateral. (AMD previously said that it expects to achieve about $300 million in annualized cost savings … Read more
It's RISC, not Risk Frankwell Lin, Andes Technology Corporation, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO Andes Technology Corporation, founded in 2005, is a Taiwanese supplier of 32-/64-bit embedded CPU cores and a founding Premier member of RISC-V International Association. The company focuses on the embedded market and delivers CPU cores with an integrated development environments and associated software and hardware for … Read more
The Exynos 2200 series of chips was announced on January 18th and is planned for the Galaxy S22, Galaxy Z Fold3, and Flip3 phones. The Exynos 2200 SoC is based on Samsung’s 4-nm processing node. The chip’s GPU is named Xclipse 920 and uses AMD’s RDNA2 GPU IP including AMD’s intersection ray-tracing processors—making Exynos 2200 SoC the first mobile processor … Read more
Special, big black scientific machines have been with us since the 1940s. They’ve used pretty much the same amount of floor space but have gone up orders of magnitude in performance from generation to generation. At the start of 2022, the Frontier supercomputer is being installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and will be the first computer in the … Read more
