Jon Peddie

Nvidia’s Q4 FY20 results

Nvidia rides the AI wave   Nvidia reported revenue from all platforms up for the quarter and beat Wall Street’s expectations. The company’s GPU business revenue was $2.7 billion, up 8% from last quarter, and up 40% from last year. The quarter was the first increase in year-over-year sales since Q3’18.   “Adoption of Nvidia accelerated computing drove excellent results, … Read more

Intel’s stacked chip is sexy

Image credit:  phee hawberries   Intel’s newest chip family, code-named Lakefield, is built with Intel’s Foveros technology. They are built in a totally new way, says Intel; not with the various IPs spread out flat in two dimensions, but with them stacked in three dimensions. Think of a chip designed as a layer cake (a 1-mm-thick layer cake) versus a … Read more

Google Glass seeks niche

AR has been a topic of interest, charm, and intrigue since Ivan Sutherland put stereoscopic floating wire-frame cubes in front of Bob Sproull’s eyes in 1968. Since then dozens, maybe even hundreds, of designs have been tried while the concept of AR expanded from a head-mounted display to head-up displays in fighter aircraft and high-end automobiles to smartphones and helmets.  … Read more

Lynx’s standalone XR HMD

Claiming to be the first 6DoF standalone passthrough video AR headset, the three-year-old, 10-person, Paris-based startup Lynx has introduced their Lynx-R1 that is scheduled to ship this summer. Introduced at the 2020 SPIE conference in San Francisco on February 3rd, the HMD uses an occluded display as a VR headset does with pass-through video for AR, making it a mixed … Read more

GeForce Now, is now

Nvidia has officially launched its play anywhere game service with the familiar-sounding name, GeForce Now. The “new” service has been evolving since 2013 when the company introduced Nvidia Grid in 2013 and developed its Shield remote gaming approach. All that technology has been collapsed into GeForce Now, with cloud services provided by Nvidia and partners. GeForce Now represents an alternative approach to other cloud … Read more

Creating a new market: zSpace grows partnerships in education

zSpace was founded in 2001 and immediately caused a stir as one of the first companies to deliver XR in supremely practical applications relying on 3D visualization. zSpace now offers three models: a laptop, and two AIOs (all-in-ones), all of which come with 3D glasses and a stylus. The secret of zSpace’s technology is the tracking built into the display. … Read more

Intel Q4 2019 results

  Intel beat Wall Street’s expectations again with its fourth-quarter financial performance sending the company’s stock up to an all-time high Friday after the chipmaker reported late-Thursday afternoon terrific results for the last quarter in 2019. Twenty billion dollars. Think about that for a moment. If every human, man, woman, child or politician, oh wait, I did say, human, if … Read more

Back to the future, Qualcomm launches three 4G Snapdragons

Source: Gizbot.com   If you can’t spell 5G or explain it to your significant other, don’t go to Barcelona because everyone there will be smarter than, and bored with, you. We have set up a pool, and put $1,000 into it; contributions are invited. Guess how many times you will see the term 5G while in Barcelona, beginning with when … Read more