GPU scheduling—don’t be late
DirectX12 exposed a tighter CPU–GPU coupling, now it’s been implemented
Consumer AR could have saved lives and the economy
We are very close to having devices that are not conspicuous or uncomfortable, devices that will feel like the sunglasses or prescription lens you now wear.
DMP puts AI and imaging to work to build safer vehicles
Your mirror really is smarter with new camera and display system powered by DMP
Kopin claims breakthrough in duo-stack OLED microdisplays
Kopin has been a leading developer of micro OLED for some time and recently announced its latest implementation of its Lightning 2.6K × 2.6K OLED display has achieved breakthrough color fidelity: > 115% sRGB. This fidelity number is believed to be the world's highest achieved on duo-stack OLED microdisplays and equal to that on the best single-stack OLED microdisplays, says … Read more
Leia
Leia, a 2014 start-up in Menlo Park, CA, spun out of HP Labs, has developed a diffractive light field backlighting (DLB) display. Developed from work done at HP Labs in the field of nano design and manufacturing, the company’s proprietary diffractive light field display uses finely tuned nanostructures to project a dense light field from a transparent, edge-lit substrate. This … Read more
DMP puts AI and imaging to work to build safer vehicles
In 2017, there were 511,455 crashes in the US involving a large truck or a bus. Of those, 4,455 were crashes with fatalities. In the EU, trucks account for about 2% of the vehicles on the road but represent 15% of fatalities. Many of these crashes can be attributed to limited visibility from the cockpit, including multiple blind spots. … Read more
Facebook kills Oculus Go
Facebook launched Oculus Go two years ago in May 2018 and it sold for $199. The device was an all-in-one VR headset capable of operating without tethering to a computer or relying on a smartphone for its computing power. Since then, Facebook has launched the $399 Quest, a more powerful all-in-one headset, and the $399 Rift S, which must be … Read more
Nvidia builds the car of the future, Mercedes supplies the sheet metal
I want it. I want it now! Jensen Huang, CEO of premium brand Nvidia, said, “No longer will the best moment of your car experience be at the point of the sale. In the future, that will be the starting point of one’s experience with a beautiful Mercedes-Benz.” What he was talking about is the newly announced partnership between Mercedes-Benz … Read more
Acer unveils a slew of new notebooks
Image credit: Acer Founded in 1976, Acer has been expanding and enhancing its footprint in the notebook market for 15 years, and each new introduction has been impressive. This year is not different when at Acer’s virtual press conference the company rolled out four new notebooks, a desktop unit, and a gaming chair as well as an energy drink … Read more
An Apple Arm a day keeps the Intel away
Arm photo credit Jude Beck Rumors of Apple designing and using its own CPU began back in 2008 when the company bought P.A. Semi, a 150-person chip company in Santa Clara, P.A. Semi, was founded in 2003 by Dan Dobberpuhl, who was a lead designer for the well-regarded Alpha and StrongARM microprocessors developed by Digital Equipment in the 1990s. … Read more
Fujitsu Arm-based supercomputer is number one
The Fugaku logo What do Apple and Fujitsu have in common? They’re both building expensive computers using Arm processors. Fujitsu has been working with Riken, Japan's largest and oldest private research institution (established in 1917). This week, Riken and Fujitsu announced the supercomputer Fugaku, a supercomputer using Arm. A supercomputer using Arm, and, as if that wasn’t astounding enough, … Read more
Supercomputers—who gives a rat’s patootie
The Krell supercomputer (1956) There’s 500 of them! Five hundred. Do I really give a hoot? If I told you, there are five hundred top baseball players, think you’ve given a… after I named number five or six? Hell, I’d bail out after number three. I mean really, what’s a supercomputer ever done for me? But because we’re an … Read more