Crypto mining manufacturer Innosilicon is located on the island of Hengqin in Zhuhai, a special economic zone very close to the three islands that make up Macau. In December 2021 the mining machine builder announced it would use Imagination Technologies’ IMG BXT multi-core GPU IP to build its Fenghua (magnificent) 1 dGPU and produce an AIB from it named Fantasy … Read more
Unlike some of its competitors, AMD drove sales up in Q2 (above guidance and helped by Xilinx), although its expenses went up more, and margins and profit dropped. “We delivered our eighth-straight quarter of record revenue based on our strong execution and expanded product portfolio,” said AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su. “Each of our segments grew significantly year-over-year, … Read more
Intel’s financial report revealed two hard-to-ignore situations. In a quarter where the company reported a loss combined with dropping margins and sales, Pat Gelsinger also jettisoned several non-essential business units that contributed to the drain. Of the groups Gelsinger got rid of was Optane (started in 2017, never made a profit), sold McAfee (bought in 2010, never made a … Read more
Five years of no results in the midst of dumping businesses
Q2’22 was a rocky quarter for Intel. Network and Edge Group and Mobileye achieved record quarterly revenue. Meanwhile, Client Computing Group and Datacenter and AI Group were impacted by adverse market conditions. The company revised its full-year revenue guidance from $65 billion to $68 billion, down from its prior guidance of $76 billion. Intel’s financial results for the quarter. (Source: … Read more
Xi Computer, one of the oldest and most advanced manufacturers of high-performance CAD workstations, today announced the latest version of their award-winning MTower workstations equipped with the 5000 series of AMD Threadripper processors, available for immediate ordering. The Xi MTower 64TR now supports the Threadripper processors up to the 5995WX with 64 cores, 128 threads, and 4.5 GHz Turbo … Read more
That’s just crazy talk on Intel’s part. Nothing can beat a GPU, everybody knows that. If that weren’t true, why would Intel have invested so many millions in developing a GPU? Surely, not just for some computer project. But in December 2019, Intel acquired Habana Labs, which was founded in 2016 in Tel Aviv, Israel. At the time, Habana was … Read more
Concept render by Ian Zelbo based on purported leaked information. TrendForce, which tracks and reports on display components, thinks the microLED chip market will start growing in 2024 and soar in 2026. MicroLED AR glasses display chip market. (Source: TrendForce) As you may recall, in May 2014, Apple bought LuxView, a microLED company. And no doubt you heard last … Read more
Preparing for their initial public offering road tour, Arm has announced a new GPU and naming scheme, and committed fully to 64 bits for their CPU designs. SoftBank Group Corp. is considering listing some of its stake in chip designer Arm Ltd. on the London Stock Exchange, switching from an earlier plan to only use the US market, according to … Read more
MediaTek has introduced their Dimensity 9000+, an enhancement to the company’s top-of-the-line 5G smartphone chipset. This new high-end offering, says the company, delivers a boost in performance over the Dimensity 9000 to make the next generation of flagship smartphones even more powerful and efficient. The Dimensity 9000+ SoC uses Arm’s v9 CPU and is built in a 4-nm octa-core process. … Read more
Brooks Flynn, director, Product Management, Lenovo Lenovo has introduced a new small form factor workstation that could easily hide behind your monitor. You wouldn’t put it there because you were ashamed of it; because it is a powerhouse of a machine in an attractive package. To get the small size while delivering big-size performance, Lenovo worked with Nvidia on … Read more
Khronos has formed a forum to create a venue for cooperation between standards organizations and companies to foster the development of interoperability standards for an open and inclusive metaverse. The organizations do not want to create any standards, unless the industry specifically asks them to, but rather to make sure that all its members are aware of the standards already … Read more
