Now that your armpits and other areas have dried out from the excitement of Apple’s M1 Pro/Max announcements eight months ago, the company thought it was time to raise your heart rate again. Enter M2. At the annual fan club meeting, called a developer conference Apple announced its new, M2. It, says the company, marks the beginning of the next … Read more
Intel recently held its Intel Extreme Masters conference in Dallas and showed (among things) a new graphics AIB. Intel says the Intel Arc Limited Edition AIB will feature the flagship Arc Alchemist Mobile (ACM)-G10 Alchemist dGPU (formally known as the DG2-512EU). The demo AIB, which will be known as the Arc A770 or A780, was in a dual-fan, black aluminum … Read more
AMD said at Computex that it will launch its entry-level Ryzen and Athlon 7000 series APU mobile processors, code-named Mendocino, manufactured on TSMC’s 6 nm process. The highest version of Mendocino will have four Zen 2 cores with eight threads. The APU is targeted at Chromebooks and low-end Windows NBs. The GPU in the Ryzen 3 7420U APU will be … Read more
Qualcomm has announced its latest milestone in making extended reality (XR) the next computing platform with the Wireless AR Smart Viewer reference design, powered by the Snapdragon XR2 Platform. The company says the cord-free reference design will help OEMs and ODMs create prototypes more seamlessly and cost-efficiently and bring to market lightweight, premium AR glasses to enable immersive experiences that … Read more
Here kid, the first one is free
The supercomputer Fugaku, jointly developed by Riken and Fujitsu, has successfully retained the top spot for five consecutive terms in multiple major high-performance computer rankings including HPCG and Graph500 BFS
HP has been making beautiful lightweight notebooks for a few years now. Introducing new colors, some trimmed with wood, and each new one lighter and thinner than the previous one. This time, they have done the impossible—put a full-fledged GPU in a super thin and light notebook in an all-metal chassis. The 14-inch HP Pavilion Plus is only 16.5mm … Read more
Nvidia reported record revenue for the first quarter, ended May 1, 2022, of $8.29 billion, up 46% from a year ago and up 8% from the previous quarter, with record revenue in Data Center and Gaming.
Nvidia reported record revenue for the first quarter, ended May 1, 2022, of $8.29 billion, up 46% from a year ago and up 8% from the previous quarter, with record revenue in Data Center and Gaming. GAAP net income was a $1.62 billion, down 16% from a year ago and down 46% sequentially, due to the $1.35 billion Arm acquisition … Read more
In a marathon virtual presentation, several Nvidia executives gave talks about their products and opportunities. It was a great view of the company and all the things it is involved in. The scope and range is astounding and ever interesting. Nvidia’s Ian Buck, VP of Accelerating Computing, kicked things off by introducing Hopper. Ian Buck Hopper’s Tensor Cores are, … Read more
The true cost of a cup of coffee
TriLite, based in Vienna, Austria, and founded in 2011, has developed the Trixel 3, which the company claims is the world’s smallest projection display. But the projector is only part of the solution; you need a means to get the image to the wearer’s eyes. To do that, TriLite chose Dispelix, based in Espoo, Finland, and founded in 2015, to … Read more
