Matrox shipping high-density video wall AIB
Venerable pioneer graphics AIB company still delivering
XR has a real chance now, thanks to Khronos
Doing what they did for mobile phones, Khronos has stabilized XR
Jon’s sad story of Fallout 76
Jon gets his ass handed to him
AMD Q2 2020 results
AMD’s first quarter was up from Q1 and year-to-year in sales. Revenue was $1.93 billion, up 26% year-over-year primarily driven by higher Computing and Graphics segment revenue. Net profit was down 7.8% quarter-over-quarter due to lower revenue in both segments and up 349% year-to-year. “We delivered strong second-quarter results, led by record notebook and server processor sales as Ryzen and … Read more
XR has a real chance now, thanks to Khronos
Doing what they did for mobile phones, Khronos has stabilized XR
XR has a real chance now, thanks to Khronos
The headline is: Khronos announced multiple conformant implementations of OpenXR are shipping from Oculus and Microsoft. That happened because of the newly opened OpenXR 1.0 Adopters Program and open-source conformance tests, which Khronos announced was coming after launching the OpenXR 1.0 specification last year at Siggraph. Getting something this significant through all the bureaucratic and territorial fiefdoms of two major … Read more
What if what if?
One rumor, one report, three results The story put out by Bloomberg was that Nvidia may be bidding to buy some or all of Arm from Softbank. That is such a delicious rumor-speculation I just can’t ignore it. If Nvidia agreed to Softbank’s inflated price—Arm couldn’t have possibly increased in value so much from the time Softbank bought it—it would … Read more
Intel Q2’2020 results
The new normal is not normal, and may not be again for a long time. Q2 which has traditionally been a down quarter was up for Intel year-to-year, and flat quarter-to-quarter. But Q3 is being guided down, and Intel still is dealing with manufacturing issues—the new normal. By midday the day after Intel’s report, AMD soared over 15% while Intel … Read more
Nvidia’s super AIB powers Florida supercomputer HiPerGator
University of Florida HiPerGator The University of Florida announced a public-private partnership with Nvidia to build the fastest AI supercomputer in academia capable of 700 petaflops AI performance. The University says the new computer will catapult UF’s research strength to address some of the world’s most formidable challenges, create unprecedented access to AI training and tools for underrepresented communities, and … Read more
What if what if?
If Nvidia did go for Arm, which I think would be a brilliant move, that would be a serious blow to Intel, and a potential torpedo for the open-source RISC-V adventure, of which Nvidia is a participant.
DisplayLink finds a home at Synaptics
It used to be a pain to hook up two or more monitors to a single computer. But with DisplayLink, it got much easier. You could plug one display into the video output (VGA, DVI) of the computer. Then connect the other monitors to a DisplayLink adapter and the DisplayLink adapter to a USB port. Load a small driver, and … Read more
Dreaming of AR—DreamGlass 4K
Augmented Reality Where We All Will Live Founded in 2016 in San Mateo, CA by Dr. Kevin Zhong, DreamWorld has developed an AR viewing headset that can offer the user a virtual 4K display. Wearing the headset, one could watch a movie in an airplane or in their living room—provided you weren’t bothered by the see-through aspect of the … Read more