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
If Moore’s Law is dead, someone forgot to tell TSMC
An A380 drops an A380 on China Intel introduces Arc A380, its first (of three) desktop AIBs based on its Xe-HPG architecture. The A380 has 8 Xe-Cores, which is the full configuration of the ACM-G11 GPU. The A380 has a 2 GHz base clock and draws 75 watts. The AIB has 6GB GDDR6 memory running at 16 Gbps, with … Read more
AMD had an in-person and virtual analyst’s day event in beautiful Santa Clara and introduced their new lineup of senior staff, which now includes executives from Xilinx and Pensando. This was the first physical get-together since Covid hit, and it was nice to see old friends. AMD has gone though an amazing transformation since 2015 when many people were writing … Read more
(Source: Tima Miroshnichenko) Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed an optical chip that can process almost 1.7 billion images per second. It uses a neural network that processes visual information directly without memory read/writes. Despite advances in photonic computation, the lack of scalable on-chip optical non-linearity and the loss of photonic devices limit the scalability of optical … Read more
