Jon Peddie

Qualcomm and others exploit Wi-Fi gaming

  Qualcomm, Microsoft, Valve and some OEMs think it’s time to redefine wireless expectations for latency-sensitive gaming, productivity, and learning applications on Windows 11 PCs. They are going to do that with Qualcomm’s chip-based FastConnect systems, which enable Wi-Fi Dual Station. Wi-Fi Dual Station using Qualcomm 4-Stream Dual Band Simultaneous is a Windows 11 feature that allows multiple Wi-Fi bands … Read more

IEEE—the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers had a day

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is a professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering that was formed in January 1963 from the amalgamation of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers. IEEE Day was established to celebrate the first worldwide gathering of engineers who came together to share their technical ideas in … Read more

MetaX to build GPUs, ASICs, and FPGAs

In September 2020, Chen Weiliang started MetaX (Mu Xi) Integrated Circuit Co. in the Pudong Lingang Special Area of Shanghai’s Free Trade Zone. At their founding, Weiliang said the company would develop artificial intelligence processors consisting of ASICs, FPGAs, and GPUs. Weiliang, with a Master’s degree from the Institute of Microelectronics of Tsinghua University, had been a senior GPU researcher … Read more

Happy birthday, PIXEL

On a cool early autumn day in Bellingham, WA, in 1965. The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers—SPIE staff were still in the glow of celebrating their 15th anniversary when they published Frederic Billingsley’s paper, Digital Video Processing at JPL.

Happy birthday PIXEL

 Image credit, JVC Creative Commons   On a cool early autumn day in Bellingham, WA, in 1965. The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers—SPIE staff were still in the glow of celebrating their 15th anniversary when they published Frederic Billingsley’s paper, Digital Video Processing at JPL. They didn’t know it at the time, but it was a landmark publication and firmly … Read more

Jingjia Micro JM9000 series GPUs

Celebrating its 15th anniversary, Jingjiawei, a Chinese GPU chip company (also known as Changsha Jingjia Microelectronics Co.—Jingjia Micro), announced in mid-September 2021 that its new-generation GPU had completed tape out and packaging phases. The product has not completed the test work yet and is not yet in production or available. Information about the company’s pursuit of developing a GPU was … Read more

HP makes working at home comfortable

According to some back-of-the-envelope calculations and other data, we estimate the average cost for a tech worker’s space and support facilities in an office is about $15,500 a year.¹ If you could have your employees and contractors work at home, and all you had to do was outfit them with a new computer every three or four years for $500 a … Read more

How I got in and out of word processing and only lost $1000

Editor's note: This is a surprise out of the archives … meaning a box in the garage tipped over and these typewritten pages spilled out. Jon wrote this story in 1982 and we thought it was a fun read for computer veterans. It's easy to forget that there was a time when word processors were very expensive and specialized pieces … Read more

Xiaomi Smart Glasses

(Source: Xiaomi) Xiaomi (pronounced show-me) announced their cleverly named Xiaomi Smart Glasses—the latest entry in new smart wearable devices. Xiaomi says their Smart Glasses (XSG) combine imaging systems and sensors into a subtle, ordinary glasses design using MicroLEDs with optical waveguide technology. The XSFs weigh 51 g. By comparison, Ray-Ban Original Wayfarer weighs 45 g, but unlike the conventional Ray-ban, … Read more