IBM Research shows 2000 pm transistor wafer
IBM projects its 2 nm transistors will provide a 45% improvement in performance over 7nm transistors while using 75% less power.
SiliconArts Signs Development Agreement with Pixilica for RayCore GPU Core
SiliconArts today announced a development agreement with Pixilica for its next-generation Monti Carlo RayCore graphics architecture, Pixilica is a RISC-V developer.
Real men have transcoders, ask Google
YouTube gets custom streaming chip—the VCU
PTC says 2021 is going to be just great
PTC notched a successful 2020, and the first half of its fiscal year 2021 is off the charts, and PTC execs are saying they’re right where they want to be. The company’s performance at the start of the year, underscores the trends analysts are using to predict a very positive 2021 and 2022 post-pandemic. Taking off: revenues in the company’s … Read more
Real men have transcoders, ask Google
Left H.264, right VPG—YouTube ASICS beat GP chips which beat software—it’s the law. When it comes to fixed-function operations like transcoding that’s especially true. The first transcoding work was done in software on the CPU. It was pretty good and easy to see it would scale with CPU clock rate. Transcoding is a highly redundant operation and so it … Read more
AMD Q1 2021 results
AMD announced revenue for the first quarter of 2021 of $3.45 billion, operating income of $662 million, net income of $555 million. “Our business continued to accelerate in the first quarter driven by the best product portfolio in our history, strong execution and robust market demand,” said Dr. Lisa Su, AMD president and CEO. “We had outstanding year-over-year revenue growth … Read more
Are PC sales headed for a crash?
The much welcomed and glorious reports of PC shipments encouraging as they may be, obviously can’t continue. The surge in sales, primarily due to commercial PCs, is from the provisioning home offices in reaction to the pandemic shutdown. The short-term increase in PC and peripheral shipments is certainly welcome by the industry, but it is perhaps less welcomed by the … Read more
Are PC sales headed for a crash?
Regardless of how the workload is distributed between home and the office, corporations, government, and universities will now have close to twice the inventory of PCs they had before the pandemic hit.
Intel Q1 2021 results
First-quarter revenue exceeded Intel’s January guidance by $1.1 billion, said the company, led by continued strong PC demand. PC unit volumes were up 38% YoY, and notebook volumes set a new Intel record. The company also saw an initial recovery of Enterprise and Government sales in the Data Center Group (DCG). Intel also achieved better-than-expected revenue in their Internet of Things … Read more
AMD’s latest Adrenalin update puts the fun in functionality
With the latest Adrenalin release, AMD adds new controls for imaging, color, and cross-platform gaming. (Source: AMD) AMD has gotten into the cadence of releasing a Radeon driver every month and then hotfixes after users have a chance to debug them, but these days there is a minimal fuss. The company has delivered on its promise of driver stability. … Read more
Khronos compresses texture maps for everyone
Over the years of computer graphics, stretching back to Ed Catmull’s pioneering 1974 paper that introduced the concept of subdivision, wrapping, and unwrapping, the CG industry has been trying to find ways to make texture mapping faster and more efficient because it is such a powerful tool. It led to Jim Blinn’s famous 1978 paper on bump-mapping and other developments. … Read more
Nvidia will offer DGX mini-supercomputers for rent
During their GTC 2021 online event, Mr. Manuvir Das, Head of enterprise computing at Nvidia, announced that the new DGX Station A100 and DGX SuperPod mini-super computers will be available on a rental basis as well as for sale. The option is helpful for customers who have limited cash flow available to purchase a new supercomputer or in many cases … Read more