AMDlinx—and now they are one
In October 2020 at the height of the Covid pandemic, AMD surprised the computer industry by announcing it would acquire FPGA inventor and maker Xilinx for $35 billion in stock.
AMDlinx—and now they are one
In October 2020 at the height of the Covid pandemic, AMD surprised the computer industry by announcing it would acquire FPGA inventor and maker Xilinx for $35 billion in stock. Xilinx was founded one year after Altera. In 2015, Intel acquired Altera for $16.8 billion, and its revenue at the time was $1.9 billion; Xilinx’s revenue was $2.4 billion. At … Read more
Arm in a world without a daddy
Soon the little RISC designer will be on its own
Varjo streams VR from AWS
The idea of virtual presence in a mission-critical design review or development process sounds like science fiction. It was. It was until Helsinki-based Varjo brought cloud streaming to its Reality Cloud platform and moved the company toward its vision of real-life collaboration into the metaverse. “Being able to achieve the same quality experience through Varjo Reality Cloud with less powerful … Read more
AMD’s Q4 2021 results
AMD reported record quarterly revenue of $4.8 billion up 49% year-over-year and record full-year revenue of $16.4 billion up 68%. Gross margin expanded and operating income more than doubled from the prior year. “2021 was an outstanding year for AMD with record annual revenue and profitability,” said AMD President and CEO Dr. Lisa Su. “Each of our businesses performed extremely … Read more
Intel launches Project Circuit Breaker
Bizz, zap, boing, poof, pop, BANG! “I think we found the back door Chad.” “Cool, let’s go.” All complex (non-biological) systems have them. A secret way to get inside and fix things. But once inside, things can be fixed for good or evil depending upon one’s morals and self-respect. The trick then is to find viabilities, and patch them before … Read more
Nvidia GeForce GT 1010 AIB available
Sold by Lenovo for $70 US in Chinese markets
China okays AMD bid to buy Xilinx
It’s a sweetheart deal
AMD’s new Ryzen 6000 processor
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
EVGA brings the insides out with the new E1 platform
Wouldn’t it be easier if your gaming PC wasn’t in a tin box?
EVGA brings the insides out with new the E1 platform
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 Z2 G9 tower and mini WS
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