CES came and we all stayed at home. That's maybe just as well. We know several people who think they may have gotten Covid-19 at last year's event. They had caught what they at first thought was a really bad case of the CES Flu. As always, reporting on CES is really a months-long process as the entire universe for consumer electronics resets itself for a new year. And this, friends, is a big new year.
Nvidia may have started out serving the gaming community with a graphics chip, but the company has always been more than a gaming company. Nvidia is a computer company with strong interests in gaming, but its future is computing. CPU computing, GPU computing, and network computing. Maybe Nvidia should make a change to its name to reflect its broad interests. How about Nvidia Computer, or Nvidia Computing.
This opening hour of The International Future Computing Summit features: 1. Dr. Jon Peddie, CEO of Jon Peddie Research, outlining what the next era of computing could look like.
Ed speaks with Jon about his company, his personal history, his relationship with SIGGRAPH, his books, and his visions about the future of Augmented Reality and other imaging technologies. Jon Peddie has been a guiding force in the CGI industry for decades.
This is a summary of GPU developments for 2020 and includes announcements by the leading GPU suppliers.
Shut down but don’t shut up
Presented live on Wednesday 12/2/20, with an introduction by Dr. Jon Peddie of JPR, moderated by Editor-in-Chief of JPR’s Tech Watch Report Kathleen Maher. Event panelists include Angus Kneale Chief Creative, Preymaker; Director of Product/New Technology at Foundry Matt Mazerolle; Framestore Creative Director and VFX Supervisor, James Rogers. and VFX Supervisor at Weta Digital, Eric Winquist.
Chaos Group’s V-Ray for Cinema4D creates Pamporovo - There a ski resort in Bulgaria called Pamporovo. Some of the Chaos Group employees may have spent some time there. To celebrate the release of V-Ray 5 for Cinema 4D
Intel acquired Israeli-based chip maker Habana Labs in 2019 to advance its AI strategy and strengthen its portfolio of AI accelerators for the cloud and data center. The deal was worth approximately $2 billion. Was it a good deal?
AMD gains in market share
A strong quarter: Jon Peddie Research reports that PC GPU market shipments increased 10.3% sequentially from last quarter
FLOPS, TOPS, and pops compute accelerators
