Jon Peddie

Real-time ray tracing in AR from Snap

Last week at Snap’s partner summit, the company showed its next-gen AR glasses with a special feature—real-time ray tracing. It was difficult to figure out where the Nvidia RTX graphics AIB was, and that was because Snap wasn’t using one, or anyone else’s GPU. The RTRT is done via Snap’s Lens Studio software, which came from a recent acquisition. Snap … Read more

AMD enters Chromebook market as it declines

HP’s Elite Chromebook   AMD has announced that it is offering its new Ryzen 5000 C-Series chips, including the first 8-core high-performance x86 processor for Chromebook builders. And it has two design wins for the new Chromebook chips: the HP Elite c645 14-inch G2 Chromebook with smart card and fingerprint sensors, positioned for the enterprise market, and the Acer Chromebook … Read more

Intel buys Siru

Source: Alpha Coders   We first met Bitboys in 1991 when they showed us their design for a revolutionary new 3D graphics chip, a precursor to the GPU. The company had made a deal with TriTech, a spin-off from Chartered Semiconductor in Singapore. Things didn’t go well, and TriTech was shut down by the Singaporean government. A devastating blow to … Read more

AMD’s Q1’22 result

AMD continued its growth streak, reaching $5.9 billion in Q1’22, a YoY gain of almost 71%. However, gross margin (GAAP) fell 4% Q-Q, but was up 4.4% YoY. “The first quarter marked a significant inflection point in our journey to scale and transform AMD as we delivered record revenue and closed our strategic acquisition of Xilinx,” said AMD Chair and … Read more

AMD’s Q1’22 result

AMD continued its growth streak, reaching $5.9 billion in Q1’22, a YoY gain of almost 71%. However, gross margin (GAAP) fell 4% Q-Q, but was up 4.4% YoY.
“The first quarter marked a significant inflection point in our journey to scale and transform AMD as we delivered record revenue and closed our strategic acquisition of Xilinx,” said AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su.

Intel Q1 2022 financial results

Although Intel reported that its first-quarter results for 2022 were down, it beat Wall Street expectations on revenue and EPS. The company began shipping initial SKUs of its Sapphire Rapids to select customers and launched its Arc A-Series dGPUs and its newest Xeon D processors. The company reorganized its reporting segments and added three emerging business segments: Accelerated Computing System … Read more

Intel Q1 2022 financial results

Intel reported that its first-quarter results for 2022 were down, it beat Wall Street expectations on revenue and EPS. The company began shipping initial SKUs of its Sapphire Rapids to select customers and launched its Arc A-Series dGPUs and its newest Xeon D processors.

The little green men left and took their PCs with them

You remember a year ago when the headlines read: PC shipments show continued strength in Q1 2021 despite component shortages? Here at JPR, we scratched out heads and said, “Continued strength? Huh? Did a million new users suddenly pop up? Have we had an alien invasion? And then in we read: Traditional PCs, inclusive of desktops, notebooks, and workstations, reached … Read more