Pixelworks has been building video co-processors and offering IP solutions for mobile devices for some time now. The company is an acknowledged leader in the field and knows how to squeeze zillions of colors out without draining the battery (it’s a black art that seems to defy the laws of physics). One of Pixelworks’ customers is Vivo, a Chinese smartphone … Read more
AMD introduced its Ryzen Pro 5000 Series Mobile Processors based on the Zen 3 core architecture. The new processors are designed for premium business laptops and include AMD’s hardware-based PRO technologies for enterprise-class security features. AMD addresses security on multiple levels for the new Ryzen Pro 5000 series The chips were announced with two significant design wins, one from … Read more
The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment—the MADE was founded in 2011 by Alex Handy and is the first dedicated, playable videogame museum in the US. The museum got started when Handy realized old game consoles and games were being thrown out. He feared that era of gaming would be lost and set out to gather up as much of … Read more
Back when the PC was just a toddler, memory prices dropped after spiking.
Back when the PC was just a toddler, memory prices dropped after spiking. “About 1985, the personal computer market was tremendously overextended,” Texas Instruments spokesman Stan Victor told the Chicago Tribune. “There were a lot of manufacturers, all fighting for the same 10-percent share of the market. Then, demand for computers started slowing, and the computer manufacturers found themselves with … Read more
The PC industry has been on a rollercoaster ride for the past decade or longer: up, down, up, down, up. In 2010, when Paul Otellini was Intel’s CEO, he forecasted robust growth for the PC (and Intel) over the next ten years, and spoke about the next billion units. At the time, the installed base of PCs was a billion … Read more
Moore Threads, a GPU-based AI accelerator supplier, was founded in October 2020. Moore Threads recently closed two rounds of funding amounting to RMB 1 billion (USD 155 million), according to Winsoul Capital, who managed the placement. Liu Shanshan is the founder and executive director of Moore Threads. She was formally a senior manager at Xilinx. She founded AI chip start-up … Read more
Not the first digital computer, but the best known
All projects have four birthdays. They are: inception, funding, completion, and announcement, and maybe a fifth—first sale. The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) was conceived and built-in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and completed in 1945. The project’s inception can be traced to August 1942, when Dr. John W. Mauchly produced a seven-page memorandum—The Use of High-Speed Vacuum Tube Devices for Calculation. … Read more
Nvidia reported record revenue for the fourth quarter ended 31 Jan 2021, of $5 billion, up 61% from $3.1 billion a year earlier, and up 6% from $4.7 billion in the previous quarter. The company’s Graphics business revenue was $3 billion, up 10% from last quarter and up 47% from last year. “Q4 was another record quarter, capping a breakout … Read more
(Source: Qualcomm) Sometimes, if you want something done right, you just have to do it yourself. Tired of waiting around for the industry to offer more consumer-friendly AR glasses (and stop that silliness of VR goggles with cameras and calling it MR)? Qualcomm took the matter into their own hands and developed an (almost) acceptable-looking pair of glasses. At … Read more
Imagination Technologies announced that Shanghai-based StarFive, a RISC-V developer-board supplier, has licensed the IMG B-Series GPU IP to support its latest RISC-V single-board computer (SBC). Imagination thinks the collaboration will help grow the RISC-V ecosystem. StarFive is including Imagination’s GPU in the production version of its $119/$149 85mm × 70mm BeagleV AI single-board computer, announced in January 2021. StarFive says … Read more
