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Find Maya’s kilers in Simulacra 2
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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
Find Maya’s kilers in Simulacra 2
Maya, an upcoming influencer has been found dead, and an obsessed detective suspects foul play. Her phone appears to be intentionally wiped, and her cause of death seems… unnatural. You are given her phone to conduct an unsanctioned police investigation, and piece together the mystery surrounding her death. Solve the case before whatever happened to Maya… happens again. And so … Read more
Khronos extends and releases Vulkan 1.2 for GPU acceleration
Mount Vulkaan – Wikipedia The sun never sets on Khronos, and Vulkan never sleeps. Khronos’s Vulkan is also no Rip Van Winkel and since the release of Vulkan 1.1 at Siggraph 2016, over 23 extensions to an already robust API have been suggested to the committee. Those extensions have been accepted bringing significant developer-requested access to new hardware functionality, … Read more
Pixelworks to elevate OPPO’s display quality in next-generation smartphones
Pixelworks has signed a multi-year collaboration agreement with the company to develop advanced display systems for smartphones, integrating the latest Pixelworks’ visual processor and software solutions. The companies anticipate the initial phone model from this collaboration to launch in the first half of 2020. Oppo’s current top of its line phone, the X series, has a 6.4-inch touchscreen, with a … Read more
Vuzix adds on to its security story
ONVIF Security cameras can be used with Vuzix Blade glasses to enable security personnel be on the move and monitor several cameras at once. (Source: Vuzix) Vuzix is a smart glasses company with unusual longevity in the perilous field of AR/VR glasses makers. In AR, vendors struggle to balance the market's demand for low profile, lightweight glasses at equally … Read more
Up, it’s up, OMG the PC market is UP!
PC market shows signs of growth or does it
Ambarella expands its platform to meet Intel’s challenge
CES, the land of dreams, hopes, and big promises. Ambarella was founded in 2004 on the basis of a massive semi-smart image sensor with video-compression. Four years later, the company introduced its flagship product, the H2 with an image processing pipeline that included a 10-bit HDR video processing and imaging that could handle challenging low-light conditions. In 2011, the company … Read more
AMD charging into the fast lane with new CPUs
In this week’s stories, you can find Boxx Technologies bragging about using AMD’s Threadripper in Boxx’s new Apex workstation. And as happy as that makes AMD, it’s almost deliriously giddy about its 15 W, 2.1 to 4.2 GHz Ryzen 4000 mobile processors that can run some serious games. And, the company has design wins to brag about too. Consumers will … Read more
Boxx upgrades workstation with 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen Threadripper processor
Boxx Technologies recently announced that its APEXX T3 workstation now features the new, 3rd generation AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X processor—AMD’s highest performing desktop processor. Boxx is among the first workstation manufacturers to ship systems equipped with the new processor. Boxx sees the new workstation being used for rendering complex 3D scenes, encoding, or powering simulation and analysis. In such applications, … Read more