The suppliers had a great year and so did the customers GPUs have found their way into just about every corner of science, industry, design, automotive, and entertainment. GPUs are the heart of the PC’s CPUs, the soul of SoCs, and the essence of AI, and DL. It is truly amazing how many problems can be solved using SIMD architecture. … Read more
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How does a company increase sales in a market where shipments are decreasing? For those of you who watch Nvidia, you will have taken note of its meteoric rise in share price since September 2015 to date (~$21 to ~$94); the share price has increased about 440%. However, when normalized to Nasdaq, the growth is 323%, as shown in the … Read more
If the PC is dead, how come so many companies are making money from it? The PC industry has been exciting since the arrival of the Intel 4004 and Gordon Moore’s observation about the doubling of density in semiconductor memory manufacturing in 1965. The industry has just reported on its 2016 third-quarter results, and what terrific results they were, for … Read more
Quarter-to-quarter AIBs shipments increased 38.2%, and 9.2% year-to-year.
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Nvidia’s market share increased 2.2% from last quarter and 0.4% from last year, Intel lost 1.6% market share from last quarter, and AMD’s overall share decreased 0.6%, from last quarter
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A lot of power for not too much money
That’s OK, we’ll get you a new one in a couple of years Hiya folks. Ya say ya lost your job today? Ya say it’s 4 a.m. and your kids ain’t home from school yet? Ya say your wife went out for a corned beef sandwich last weekend—the corned beef sandwich came back but she didn’t? Ya say your furniture … Read more
http://gfxspeak.com/2016/11/03/first-impressions-adobe/
One of the pioneers takes a look back Apple’s QuickTime 1.0 was completed on December 9th 1991, and the 25th anniversary of that game-changing technology is this year. There are very few architectures that anyone can think of that have survived for that period of time and continue to make a meaningful impact in technology circles. QuickTime is one of … Read more
