Uchiha Fugaku was a jōnin of Konohagakure and Head of the Uchiha clan, as well as the Konoha Military Police Force. (Source: Fandom.com) The Fugaku supercomputer is a very large system, in which more than 150,000 A64FX high-performance CPUs developed by Fujitsu and based on the Arm instruction set architecture are connected by a high-speed Tofu Interconnect D network. … Read more
2019 will go down as the year of ray tracing. Kicked off by Nvidia at Siggraph 2018, the once arcane and specialized practice of ray tracing that only got used by the movies and baked into games was unleased on consumers. In addition to several new PC games being released in 2019, we were also told the PS5 due … Read more
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NetEase, founded in June 1997 and based in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, is an Internet company providing online services. At the 2019 Software Green Alliance Developers Conference held recently, NetEase showed the results of realtime ray tracing technology in mobile games and used Love Is Justice mobile game to demonstrate. The company showed the first public demonstration of mobile gaming applications … Read more
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Facebook AI researchers Georgia Gkioxari, Shubham Tulsiani, and David Novotny delivered a fascinating paper at the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) in Seoul, titled Pushing state-of-the-art in 3D content understanding. The premise of the paper is that to interpret the world around us, AI systems must understand visual scenes in three dimensions. To accomplish that formable task, the researchers … Read more
We test and have tested a lot of graphics AIBs and PCs over the past 30+ years, and we have used synthetic benchmark and application-based benchmarks—we even used to have our own Windows-based benchmark test suite (we called WITS). There are plenty of dedicated benchmark programs available, and even more in-game or application benchmarks. No single one is better than … Read more
Stadia is making headlines with its streaming game service but a pack is forming close behind. Sony has been in the game. Watch for entries from Sony, Microstation, Nividia, and Samsung Cloud gaming has been tried since 2003, by several companies. Since then, the internet has gotten a lot faster, and processors have too. The time may be right … Read more
Neon Noir, a free ray tracing benchmark based on the ray-tracing demo of the same name, which was made available as a video during GDC 2019. Neon Noir was developed on a version of Crytek’s Cryengine 5.5 and it features voxel ray tracing technology based on Cryengine’s Total Illumination global illumination (GI) technology. Crytek’s headline feature for Neon Noir … Read more
If you like fast cars, exciting race scenes, and some pretty good acting, then treat yourself to two and half hours of terror, frustration, and thrills—go see the blockbuster movie Ford vs. Ferrari. See it on a big screen with a great sound system. The movie is a flashback to the time when need-for-speed was expressed in the development … Read more
Most chips in today's smartphones, computers, and servers are comprised of multiple smaller chips invisibly sealed inside one rectangular package. How those multiple chips—often including CPU, graphics, memory, IO, and more—communicate has been a challenge for circuit, chip, and packaging designers? Intel thinks they’ve got the answer with their EMIB (embedded multi-die interconnect bridge) which is a complex multi-layered sliver … Read more
The PC GPU market shipments increased 10.7% sequentially from last quarter, but decreased 5.6% year-to-year
