In the past couple of years Nvidia invested over a billion dollars in R&D on what could become the first of the ultimate cores—Kepler. Kepler is the first architecture ever designed to scale all the way from mobile to its highest end Tesla processors. That basic Kepler core can be (is) used in all the processors in Nvidia’s entire product … Read more
Nvidia introduces a new business unit targeted at the other billion opportunities Nvidia has been involved with embedded, semi-custom and IP sales for special customers like Sony, Microsoft, Intel and Audi for several years, so they are no stranger to the idea, or the issues in supporting such customers. In the last, five or so years we have seen the … Read more
This generation of x86 tablets changes the game Tablets often referred to as “media tablets” saw usage for the most part as content consumption and display devices. They have been used for lightweight content creation in email and Facebook, but not serious mission-critical applications—how could they; they only ran Android, or iOS. That was then, and this is now. The … Read more
Apple made a bin load of announcements today regarding new products at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2013 in San Francisco, but none of the products met with as much polarized response as their futuristic-looking update of the Mac Pro. The new workstation embeds Intel Xeon CPUs and AMD FirePro GPUs inside a futuristic black cylinder. – See it … Read more
3D Systems announced today it has agreed to acquire approximately 80% of Phenix Systems, a provider of direct metal selective laser sintering 3D printers based in Riom, France. Phenix Systems designs, manufactures and sells proprietary 3D printers capable of printing chemically pure fully dense metal and ceramic parts from very fine powders with the granularity of 6 to 9 microns. … Read more
The most anticipated E3 show in years starts off today with Press Conferences from Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft and Sony. Microsoft and Sony will be on the hot seat and attempt to answer the questions regarding game licensing vs. ownership, constant internet connection and policy on used games. You can see the schedule of conferences on the E3 site.
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TIBURON, Calif— June 05, 2013 Stakeholders in the workstation market didn't get the best news out of the first quarter's sales figures, but it could have been a lot worse. Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has concluded its tabulation and analysis of market results and reports the tepid quarter was both simultaneously disappointing and encouraging, depending on perspective. The leading workstation … Read more
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New definitions needed to get back to reality As you know the PC is dead, noble thing that it was, it served us well for many decades. The PC has been replaced by the tablet; you may have heard that too. In fact you probably have one or two, I do.For bean counters like us, knowing the correct name of … Read more
The world has become a place where data is expected everywhere. As time progresses, that data is growing at a rate that mobile networks are already having trouble supporting. A good example of this might be a 45-second video of your kids at Disneyland taken with a smartphone. At 1080 resolution (the standard resolution now on modern smartphone video cameras), … Read more
Qualcomm says their Snapdragon 800 can capture 4K images and display those images on a 4K screen. Step by step, 4K is making its way to the home with the brand name UltraHD. Qualcomm outlines the following points HERE as issues that are going to have to be dealt with for UltraHD video.
