This week Matrox, the eclectic pioneering Canadian graphics company who developed a 3D graphics controller in 1998 they called the G200, is celebrating its 20th anniversary. At the time it was a killer new part, coming on the heels of the programmable TI TMS34010 (which was not called a GPU at the time) and just ahead of the introduction of … Read more
XR1 is a next-generation platform introduced by the Qualcomm Technologies, subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, at the AWE conference in Santa Clara, California, – last week. Qualcomm’s definition of XR XR1, says QCOM, offers mainstream users high-quality XR experiences while enabling OEMs to develop mainstream devices. The XR1 platform also has special optimizations for AR experiences with AI capabilities offering better … Read more
Q1, 2018 goes down as a record-breaking quarter for add-in boards
JPR reports that the GPU market increased year-to-year by 3.4%; sequentially GPU shipments decreased -10%
HP isn’t a flashy company, but boy do they have style. Known and respected for their engineering, their products have been attractive, but not usually head-turning. That was then, this is now. You might have gotten a hint that the company was up to a major refresh when they recently introduced their stylized logo for their premium products. The logo … Read more
Fastest boot-to-shoot Enmotus, as you will recall, has designed some clever storage-blending coupled with machine learning to make frequently used applications and files first to load, and run. Is that important? And if it is, can you measure it, can you prove it? Yes, yes, and yes. We took an AMD Threadripper with an EVGA 1080Ti, and ran some tests … Read more
Fastest boot-to-shoot Enmotus, as you will recall, has designed some clever storage-blending coupled with machine learning to make frequently used applications and files first to load, and run. Is that important? And if it is, can you measure it, can you prove it? Yes, yes, and yes. We took an AMD Threadripper with an EVGA 1080Ti, and ran some tests … Read more
Expanded line reaches semi-professionals, high-end designers, engineers, and content creators
Outward AR is an interesting approach Microsoft’s Beamatron was one of the fist AR projection systems in 2012 using a fixed location projector (video here). Valve spinoff, Cast AR, was the first in 2013 to try using a projector as part of an AR headset. Microsoft tried it again in 2014 with their RoomAlive project. The idea was to turn … Read more
Another adventure ended In 2013, with great fanfare, the new devices group (NDG) was started under the direction of Mike Bell, a former Apple and Palm executive. Then Intel acquired fitness watch maker Basis in 2014 for around $100 million, and in 2015 acquired sports glasses maker Recon for around $175 million. Shortly thereafter, Intel folded the New Devices Group … Read more
Sony Profits for Quarter Almost 347% Up The Sony profit forecast for the year to March 2018, has rebounded. The giant electronics and media company announced its expectations to realize record annual profits, and attributes the boost to the popularity of the PlayStation 4 gaming console. Sony has forecast that its operating profit for the year to March 2018 will … Read more
What Nvidia is doing to Intel, Wave is trying to do to Nvidia, and it might just work We got a look at Nvidia’s DGX2 datacenter accelerator at GTC a few weeks ago and about the same time Wave Computing started dropping hints that their DPU (Dataflow Processing Unit) is about ready to ship in datacenter-ready systems and that we … Read more
