Researchers at the University of Sussex in Brighton in the UK have employed GPUs in a desktop PC for a large-scale brain simulation that would typically require a supercomputer. The research builds on the work of US researcher Eugene Izhikevich who pioneered a similar method for large-scale brain simulation in 2006. Izhikevich developed a new class of models of spiking … Read more
Dell’s 40-inch, 5K wasn’t designed for game, but it’s damn good at it
Corsair’s Wave:3 will hear and make you sound great
When I said I can’t wait to try gaming on this, they said, Jon, it’s a 60-Hz monitor, not designed for gaming. Yeah, but it’s also < 5 ms monitor and it only refreshed every 16 ms; so what? The games I play only refresh in 33 ms. I’m not a twitcher, at least when gaming. I don’t need a … Read more
New tidbits about Intel’s Xe dGPU market
In his own inimitable way, Intel’s Raja Koduri lit up the web this week with his Twitter reveal of a full die shot of the 2-tile, 7-nm Intel Xe HPC GPU. The giant package has 16 clusters with 128 EUs, 1024 EUs total, and 8192 cores. It is alleged to be based on the Intel Graphics 12.5 architecture (revealed in … Read more
AMD announced its Q4’20 revenue hit $3.24 billion, with an operating income of $570 million, and a net income of $1.78 billion. For the year 2020, the company reported revenue of $9.76 billion, operating income of $1.37 billion, and net income of $2.49 billion. “We significantly accelerated our business in 2020, delivering record annual revenue while expanding gross margin and … Read more
Shanghai Tianshu Zhaoxin Semiconductor Co. has been credited with releasing China’s first 7-nanometer chip based on a proprietary GPU architecture and is code-named “Big Island” GPGPU. Zhaoxin Semiconductor, formed in 2013 as a joint venture between Taiwan’s VIA Technologies and Shanghai’s municipal government, owns part of VIA’s x86 processor IP assets. The processors are created mainly for the Chinese market: … Read more
The big new display coming for new Mercedes Benz models is the outward expression of the carmaker’s long alliance with Nvidia. We’ve been telling you that alliances take a long time to bear fruit in the automotive industry. The big responsive display is powered by the Nvidia DRIVE platform. It is taking advantage of eight CPU cores, 24-gigabyte RAM, and 46.4 GB per second RAM memory bandwidth are some of the MBUX technical specifications. Let’s not go out tonight honey, let’s stay in and watch in the car.
CES came and we all stayed at home. That’s maybe just as well. We know several people who think they may have gotten Covid-19 at last year’s event. They had caught what they at first thought was a really bad case of the CES Flu. As always, reporting on CES is really a months-long process as the entire universe for consumer electronics resets itself for a new year. And this, friends, is a big new year.
Fourth-quarter revenue was $20.0 billion, exceeding the company’s October guidance by $2.6 billion but down 1%-year-over-year (YoY). Full-year revenue set an all-time Intel record of $77.9 billion, up 8 % YoY. The company delivered impressive fourth-quarter earnings per share (EPS) of $1.42 ($1.52 on a non-GAAP basis, exceeding its October guidance by 42 cents). In 2020, Intel generated a record … Read more
Hair. We all have it, some more than others. Regardless, it never behaves. We cut, color it, weave and wave it, shellac it, grease and shine it—some even iron it. And still, it just doesn’t look right. If it looks bad and unruly in real life, imagine how it looks in a simulation. It either looks like a plastic hat … Read more
