Cameras are everywhere and in everything. The market and applications have exploded in the last ten years. But a cohesive set of standard APIs has been slow to emerge making compatibility challenging. Hoping to wrestle the multi-tentacled beast under control, Khronos has teamed up with the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) and formed a new Khronos Working Group to develop … Read more
At CES, Jeff Fisher, AKA Mr. GeForce at Nvidia introduced the GeForce RTX 3050, 3080 Ti, 3070 Ti, and 3090 Ti GPUs for desktops and laptops. Somewhere along the way or shortly afterward, word came out that new RTX 3080 AIBs would get 12 GB of 19 Gbps GDDR6, which represents a 20% increase in memory bandwidth. Twenty percent is … Read more
Helium was founded in San Francisco in 2013 by Shawn Fanning, Amir Haleem, and Sean Carey, with a mission to make it easier to build connected devices. Mining HNT with blockchain hotspots is done via radio technology, not expensive or wasteful GPUs, says the company. San Jose was the first city to launch the people’s network. And the Dish network … Read more
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CES 2022 started the year out with a bang, staging an in-person event in that charming little burg in Nevada, However, several dozens of the biggest and smartest companies chose not to go share the air with the unknown, unwashed, and unvaccinated throngs populating the casinos. AMD, Intel, and Nvidia all held virtual announcements, saving gazillions of dollars and untold … Read more
It looks like Intel won’t be moving the Xe product to Intel 3 but rather use TSMC’s 3 nm process.
Imagination is no newcomer to CPUs and designed a few for its audio and TV products and some other special-purpose products. Its big move, however, was In 2012 when Imagination announced it would acquire MIPS for $60 million. In 2017 Imagination sold MIPS for $65 million, so Imagination could be acquired by Canyon bridge. Imagination had been a partner with … Read more
The GPU market has expanded with the announcement that Innosilicon, a cryptocurrency ASIC builder, have applied their talents to building a GPU using Imagination Technologies’ BXT 32-1024 MC4 RTL IP. The company was founded in 2006 in Zhuhai, China, a modern city in China’s southern Guangdong province, on the border with Macau, with R&D in Shanghai and Wuhan. The company … Read more
“It ain’t over till it’s over”—Yogi Berra, 1973
If you are the one person who hasn’t heard the U.S. FTC may block San Jose-based Nvidia’s intention to acquire UK-based Arm from Japan-based Softbank, then let me be the one to bring you up to date. On Thursday, the Federal Trade Commission moved to block Nvidia’s planned $40 billion purchase of SoftBank’s semiconductor business Arm Ltd., saying the deal … Read more
Nvidia's Q3’21 earnings report continues the company’s revenue gains and sets another record. For the third quarter ended October 31, 2021, the company reported sales of $7.1 billion, up 50% from a year earlier and up 9.2% from the previous quarter, with record revenue from the company’s Gaming, Data Center, and Professional Visualization platforms. The company’s Graphics business revenue was … Read more
When Qualcomm introduced its PC clone that could run Windows and apps, people got curious. Was it just a Chromebook competitor or was there something new going on? Intel tried it with PDAs back in 1999 with StrongARM, but Microsoft didn’t get it then and made a half-hearted offering of a stripped-down OS, not the real Windows, and people weren’t … Read more
