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The workstation market in Q3’18: Economic conditions and demand drive the market to record levels

Vendors are justifiably more confident to hang their hats on the workstation market than most other PC-related markets. And for good reason, the workstation does not suffer (at least not to a substantial degree) from ...

Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 855 Mobile Platform

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Mobile Platform is the first commercial mobile platform supporting multi-gigabit 5G, capable of AI and XR. Using 7-nm process technology, the Snapdragon 855, says the company, will offer users long-lasting battery ...

Apple gradually wins back professionals with Final Cut Pro X

Apple has never worried its very pretty head about stuff like backward compatibility. The company has abandoned software, eliminated headphone ports, changed charging ports multiple times, disappeared drives, and tells users to keep up with ...

This moment in history—5G goes live

December 4, 2018 marks as the rollout of 5G

Free physics from Nvidia

Version 3.4 is available on GitHub today

Jon Peddie Research releases its Q3, 2018 add-in board report

Q3 2018 goes down as worst third quarter for add-in boards in over 10 years

Jon Peddie Research’s Market Watch reports GPU shipments up in Q3’18 from last quarter led by Intel

The PC GPU market decreased year-to-year by 2.2%, sequentially GPU shipments increased 10.6%

Nvidia’s woes crypto giveth and taketh away

Timing is everything in mining and production

What can you see? EyeQue can tell you

An inexpensive personal eye test system

Ray-tracing in games — a dissenting POV

Heretical comments from a RT lover

Done deal: GitHub now belongs to Microsoft

Microsoft announced its plans to acquire GitHub last June. At the time the announcement inspired considerable gnashing of teeth. No surprise there. GitHub is a community of developers—free-spirited, open-source type of developers. We actually found ...

Qualcomm introduces Snapdragon 675 Mobile Platform

Qualcomm held a 5G conference in Hong Kong in late October to introduce its new Snapdragon 675 Mobile Platform. The company is claiming the new SoC will offer outstanding gaming, a leap in AI capability ...