AMD was one of the first consumer graphics companies to enter the professional graphics space in 1994 (Matrox being the first in 1987). Naturally, ATI with its economy of scale took a commanding lead in the fledgling COTS workstation AIB market, dominated at the time by proprietary solutions. As the workstation market moved into COTS CPUs, led by Dell, COTS … Read more
It’s no longer if, but when Intel will reveal its consumer-class discrete GPU (dGPU) family. And when it does, it will initially have a negative impact on the incumbent PC dGPU suppliers AMD and Nvidia. Later in 2021 or 2022, the company will ship its high-end Ponte Vecchio AIB for the Aurora supercomputer. If everything goes right for Intel and … Read more
Spot checks of people at major interfaces such as transportation centers is a critically important aspect of measuring the spread, or decline in the pandemic. Augmented reality is a perfect application for making observations. The combination of fast, thermal measurements, facial recognition, and/or tagging, and data-basing is needed if socially challenging aspect of getting it under control. Several airports outside … Read more
Snapdragon 768G designed for immersive gaming and 5G
In a specification free news announcement, Qualcomm has introduced a new Snapdragon SoC, the 768G. We have found out that the CPU has one core at 2.8 GHz, another at 2.4 GHz, plus six others running at 1.8 GHz. The GPU, however, will remain the same, an Adreno 620, although the clock has been increased to 750 MHz (from 625 … Read more
Chrome books have been a small, but steady specialized market, primarily for the educational field. Some saw as a replacement for the 2005 One Laptop per child dream of Nicholas Negroponte of MIT Media lab. Introduced in 2013, about 45 million Chromebooks have been shipped to date. Some forecasters think the market is poised for surge and are predicting 11 … Read more
(Source: Epic) Epic has made some major improvements and upgrades to its popular game engine, Unreal. With the release of Unreal Engine 4.25, Epic has expanded the toolset to include content creation and editing for more areas of game and visualization development. Epic says their linear media tools are improved to enable even more immersive and efficient production of … Read more
Source: Francis Damm It was late July 2018, when Nvidia surprised and delighted the world with the introduction of its RTX GPU that could deliver real-time ray tracing, dubbed RTRT. If you build it, will they come? It was a gamble. Nvidia had to not only design and manufacture the chip, but they also had to build a toolset … Read more
New processors are popping up all over
(Source: Skitterphoto) AMD has been fertilizing their seedling cores and watering them every day, and now that the sun is out and the cold of winter tossed off, new cute little Ryzens are popping up, rolling hills and fields full of them. But, like all wonders of Spring, they won’t last. OEMs will be gobbling them up for the … Read more
ATI, founded in 1985 as Array Technology Inc., in Thornhill Canada just outside of Toronto, was a pioneer in the graphics chip and add-in board market. It was acquired by AMD in 2006 and formed what is now the Radeon Technology Group. In the fall of 1995, ATI announced its first combination of 2D, 3D, and MPEG-1 accelerator chip … Read more
The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) today announced that it has released version 2.0 of the DisplayPort Alternate Mode (“Alt Mode”) standard. DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.0 provides seamless interoperability with the new USB4 specification published by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) and fully enables all of the features in the latest version of the DisplayPort standard (version 2.0) through the … Read more
