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Nvidia introduces the RTX A6000 WS AIB
(Source: KPF. Beijing Century City) As mentioned in my Siggraph blog, the coronavirus pandemic has shifted the way content is created and consumed. Work now often involves teams dispersed worldwide, working remotely on high-resolution content while using multiple workloads and requiring massive computing resources. Nvidia has contributed with the new RTX A6000 and A40 AIBs that use the 8 … Read more
YAP—yet another platform
How do you stand out, stand on, or for?
Nvidia kicks off GTC Fall
Nvidia and its founder, CEO Jensen Huang, deserve credit for building and delivering an astounding blivit. A blivit for those new to this channel is 5 pounds of stuff in a 10-pound bag. In the case of Nvidia’s keynote address this week, it was 100 pounds of stuff in a one-pound bag—simply amazing. The good news is, it is recorded … Read more
Famous graphics chips: 3Dlabs’ Glint to Permedia
The first commercial workstation class chip for the PC
Pixel™
Pixels™, from rock groups to clothing, to pinpoints of light, they have been an intrinsic part of our life, vocabulary, and concept since the 1800s. Alas no longer may we use it with abandon, it is now the property of Google™. The term “Pixel™” can be found throughout our industry and many others. A “pixel™” is the smallest element of … Read more
How to be cool—use EVGA’s CLC
There’re CPU coolers, and then there’re CPU COOLERS
Amazon proves us forecasters right
Luna, new cloud gaming service announced
Famous graphics chips—multi GPUs
When 3D graphics controllers were just immerging in the late 1990s, one company in particular, 3Dfx, experimented with ways to scale up the performance of accelerating the 3D gameplay
Go fast, go smart Enmotus make SSD with AI
Go for a long time
Drift—a good thing in racing, bad in consoles
Nintendo sued over Joy-Con drift
The Dragon snapped up Oculus 2
The Oculus Quest 2 is the latest result of years of collaboration between Qualcomm and Facebook to offer an immersive self-contained gaming VR device for consumers. Qualcomm’s contribution is its Snapdragon XR2 Platform and the company claims its latest version offers staggering improvements. The company says these improvements include, twice the CPU and GPU performance compared to its predecessor [the … Read more