Jon Peddie

Khronos and EMVA unite over open camera and sensor API exploration

Khronos and the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA), the European industry association for vision technology, announced the formation of an Embedded Camera API Exploratory Group. The group is open to all at no cost for exploring industry interest in the creation of open royalty-free API standards for controlling embedded cameras and sensors. Khronos says there are multiple vectors impinging on … Read more

Nvidia takes steps to protect gaming business

(Source:  Sevilay Demirci flicker.com)   Pull off the display connectors and call it a mining machine. That’s basically what Nvidia did with their Cryptocurrency Mining Processor (CMP) and it’s a very clever move. Meanwhile, Nvidia is launching its GeForce RTX 3060 (on Feb. 25) for gaming. The company says it has taken an unusual step that will help make sure … Read more

Meshing around with shaders coming with DirectX Ultimate

In late 2019 Microsoft announced it would make a major upgrade to its Windows API DirectX12. The company said it would add two new shader stages: the Mesh Shader and the Amplification Shader. Mesh shaders incorporate most aspects of Vertex (VS) and Geometry shaders (GS) into one shader stage by processing batches of vertices and primitives before the rasterizer. The … Read more

Brighton puts your brain on GPUs

Researchers at the University of Sussex in Brighton in the UK have employed GPUs in a desktop PC for a large-scale brain simulation that would typically require a supercomputer. The research builds on the work of US researcher Eugene Izhikevich who pioneered a similar method for large-scale brain simulation in 2006. Izhikevich developed a new class of models of spiking … Read more

Gaming at 5k

When I said I can’t wait to try gaming on this, they said, Jon, it’s a 60-Hz monitor, not designed for gaming. Yeah, but it’s also < 5 ms monitor and it only refreshed every 16 ms; so what? The games I play only refresh in 33 ms. I’m not a twitcher, at least when gaming. I don’t need a … Read more