Jon Peddie

Valve Index VR HMD

Valve introduced their Index VR HMD mid-year 2019, with a declaration that it intended to raise the bar for VR fidelity. The company emphasized that VR needs to advance in three key areas: affordability, ease of use, and fidelity. And their conclusion is that Valve is best suited to work on the latter, while leaving the rest to others in … Read more

Think Silicon shows early preview of industry’s first RISC-V GPU

At the upcoming RISC-V Summit, Think Silicon will reveal what it claims is the industry’s first RISC-V ISA based 3D GPU—the NEOX|V. The new offering, says the company, provides a platform for implementation in multiple embedded and external devices across many consumer and industrial vertical markets including graphics, compute, and AI for IoT/Edge/Compute. Think Silicon believes the NEOX|V will also … Read more

Imagination launches IMG A-Series

Imagination Technologies announced the tenth generation of its PowerVR graphics architecture, the IMG A-Series. Claiming its IMG A-Series is the fastest GPU IP ever released, the company says it is designed to be The GPU of Everything, citing multiple markets, from automotive, AIoT, and computing through to DTV/STB/OTT, mobile and server. The IMG A-Series has a multi-dimensional approach to performance … Read more

Fujitsu arms a supercomputer

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

Real-time ray tracing on Huawei smartphone

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