XRSpace, the VR HMD startup founded by the former CEO of HTC’s VR group thinks the COVID shut down can be compensated for by selling HMDs to potential attendees to conferences and The Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) agrees with him. The XR Trade Show Initiative will be realized through the XRSPACE MANOVA headset and VR platform. The XRSPACE … Read more
Photo courtesy Robert Bye Lenovo’s launch of the ThinkStation P620 marks the beginning of a new generation of workstations. It’s the first workstation to be based on AMD’s brand new Ryzen Threadripper PRO processor single-socket CPU platform. Thanks to an agreement between AMD and Lenovo, the Lenovo has a limited-time exclusive on the new processor. Lenovo says they are offering … Read more
AMD announced three new additions to its 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen desktop processor family—the AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT, AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT, and AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT processors. The company has introduced the XT branding to the Ryzen family of processors, and the company says the new AMD Ryzen 3000XT desktop processors are purpose-built to maximize performance under any workload. … Read more
The Last of Us part II is as much a CG movie as it is a CGI game. Developed by Naughty Dog, and published by Sony, it is a breakthrough game on many levels. One of the first all CG movies that had realistic characters with skin tones and hair was Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001). It was critically panned … Read more
Source: Daily Mail GPU Scheduling—was is it, who needs it, who wants it? The (May 2020, ver. 2004) updated Microsoft’s Windows 10’s DirectX API got a new optional feature called Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling—a feature designed to reduce latency caused by buffering between the CPU and GPU. Microsoft says DirectX 12 can now offload most of GPU scheduling to a … Read more
Source: Allie@acreativegangster Working at home is going to be the way business operate now that we know how to do it and the massive benefits of doing it. This week, we published a short news story about Jeff Clarke’s interview on CNN's story and his Blog on Dell’s site in which he talked about the benefits of having more people work at … Read more
New 4.3 GHz workstation processor from AMD
All kinds of great rumors came out of Apple’s WWDC including Apple dropping Intel in favor of their own Arm-based CPU. A few years ago, Apple terminated its long relationship with Imagination for GPU IP, hired a bunch of Imagination GPU engineers, and introduced their own Imagination inspired GPU for iPhones and iPads. Life’s tough in the Valley; it’s eat … Read more
According to a recent survey by Rentcafe, people are spending more of their time sheltering at home playing video games during the COVID-19 pandemic. And it was Gen X-ers (41 to 55 years old) who turned to gaming the most.
Strong murmurs and rumors out of China indicate Zhaoxin might introduce a dGPU. How did they manage to do that? Well, it starts back in the late-1980s with the founding of Via Technologies. In 1987, Cher Wang, heir to the Formosa Plastics Group, set up the company to supply motherboard chipsets and components but almost from the very start, the … Read more
The seasonal pattern of PC shipments used to be flat to down in Q1, way down in Q2 as OEMs and the channel stopped buying stuff and cleaned out old inventory, then up in Q3 as they stocked up for the back-to-school and holiday season, and then up to flat in Q4—used to be. But then we had a grand … Read more
Lenovo and AMD break Intel’s hegemony will anarchy emerge
