Image provided by The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Image created with the cooperation of NTT For the Olympics, NTT Docomo built and launched (literally and figuratively) a barge with a very large NTT Docomo display, the company has named Kirari! The barge displayed live transmissions of 12k ultra-wide composited images of an entire sailing … Read more
640K should be enough for anybody—said Bill Gates, apparently never. I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time. I did not say that in 1981 when the PC came out. I didn’t. I didn’t. I didn’t! (Source: … Read more
(Source: Samsung) Samsung used the 2021 Hot Chips conference, thirty-third in the series, to further reveal and promote a novel alteration of how high-speed memory could be built with AI technology. Samsung’s revelations included the successful integration of its processing-in-memory (PIM)-enabled High Bandwidth Memory (HBM-PIM) into a commercialized accelerator system. That, said Samsung, would broaden PIM to include DRAM … Read more
A great procedural-based RPG you can play again and again forever
No, not a new Steve Winward song, a new GPU family As you know, or should know, Intel has been up to their old trick of changing names and requiring you to get an upgrade to your Captain Midnight decoder ring. They did a few weeks back when Pat Gelsinger came in and introduced the world to Angstroms. And … Read more
May the Omniverse be with you (Source: Nvidia) The company again reported record revenue gains. For the second quarter ended July 30, 2021, the company reported sales of $6.51 billion, up 68 percent from a year earlier and up 15 percent from the previous quarter, with record revenue from the company’s Gaming, Data Center and Professional Visualization platforms. The company’s … Read more
Intel revealed some of the details of their newest CPUs, a few tidbits of their Ponte Vecchio HPC GPU. They also mentioned their someday recently renamed consumer GPUs that are going to put AMD and Nvidia out of business. First off, and totally seriously, the Intel presentation was one of the best-looking and well-organized I have ever seen. Intel has … Read more
Somewhere between Stalker and FO76
An Intel chip (maybe DG1). (source: Intel) After years in the process, Intel has come up with several names for their proposed someday dGPUs. To tell the world about it, Intel’s marketing department shed a little of the spotlight on some of the troops who are valiantly struggling to fulfill Raja Koduri’s promise. A group of them made a … Read more
Today’s PC industry got its start with Microcomputers that were being built in garages all over the world.
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Adding to his list of honors Jensen Huang is recognized by the industry
