Japanese 3D IP provider Digital Media Professionals IPOed this week and rallied the first day moving from ¥2,400 to ¥3,050. According to CEO Tatsuo Yamamoto and many others this has been the most successful debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange since the March Tsunami disaster.
AMD resigned from BAPCo and asked that their name and logo be removed from marketing materials promoting SYSmark 2012. BAPCo’s benchmarks are based on various software packages focused on video creation and 3D Modeling. AMD’s disagreement with BAPCo centers around the lack of a GPU compute intensive applications in the upcoming SYSmark 2012 benchmark. Nvidia and Via have also pulled … Read more
ARM’s transformation from a single to dual to quad-core has jump started its introduction into laptops. Asus has plans to launch a 13-inch ARM-based notebook adopting Nvidia’s processor with Android, with major vendors such as Samsung Electronics, Toshiba, Acer planning to develop ARM notebooks as well. ARM products could possibly be launched by the end of 2011.
With Nokia due to ship its first Windows based phones later this year it unveiled the “unique all-screen smartphone” N9 based on MeeGo earlier today. The N9 is running MeeGo 1.2, has an 8MP camera has 1GB RAM and up to 64GB storage and has a impressive 3.9-inch 854 x 480 Gorilla Glass screen.
The last five years have been an incredible roller coaster ride for AMD, the largest rival to Intel in the personal computer CPU marketplace. Jon Peddie takes a close look at both the company and their new Accelerated Processor Units here.
IBM announced that it will provide the microprocessors that will serve as the heart of the new Wii U. IBM plans to produce millions of chips for Nintendo featuring IBM Silicon on Insulator technology at 45 nanometers, the relationship between IBM and Nintendo dates to May 1999, when IBM was selected to design and manufacture the central microprocessor for the … Read more
At the AMD Fusion Developer Summit in Seattle Microsoft’s Herb Sutter, Principal Architect, Native Languages and resident C++ guru gave an important keynote. Mr. Sutter’s talk was centered around heterogeneous computing and the changes coming with future versions of Visual Studio and C++. Microsoft’s new C++ AMP will take advantage of all compute resources CPU, integrated GPU and discrete GPU … Read more
Ever since the GPU up-ended the FLOPS curve and pointed it skyward we’ve been measuring ourselves by how we’re moving erlative to Moore’s law GPU technology is moving faster than the development of process technology that fuels the products that accelerate us ahead. But what’s accelerating faster than semiconductor technology? Social networks and bandwidth (notice I did not mention software … Read more
With recent VC funding and plenty of media buzz, the spin-out from Royal Philips Electronics continues its quest to become the leading marketplace for using 3D printing for personal product manufacturing. Read more about the future of Shapeways here.
HP today expanded its consumer and business notebook portfolios with 11 new models utilizing AMD’s A-Series Accelerated Processing Units (APUs). The Pavilion dv-series and g-series will feature the new A-series APUs with a focus on speed and battery life, the HP ProBook s-series will offer a AMD Radeon HD 6540G2 (dual) configuration. You can read more about HPs new line … Read more
Santa Clara based Image processing chip vendor Ambarella Inc.has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of shares. The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the offering have not yet been determined, Ambarella. You can read more on Ambarella here.
If you cannot make it to Los Angeles you can check out all the action live, provided by GamerLive.TV. Nvidia has announced this week that its 3D Vision technology will allow video coverage of the show to be supported for the first time in stereoscopic 3D. Take a look here.
