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How do you pronounce XR1?

XR1 is a next-generation platform introduced by the Qualcomm Technologies, subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, at the AWE conference in Santa Clara, California, – last week. Qualcomm’s definition of XR XR1, says QCOM, offers mainstream users ...

Jon Peddie Research releases its Q1, 2018 add-in board report

Q1, 2018 goes down as a record-breaking quarter for add-in boards

Jon Peddie Research releases the Q1’2018 Market Watch report on PC GPU shipments

JPR reports that the GPU market increased year-to-year by 3.4%; sequentially GPU shipments decreased -10%

The evolving future of processors

Hardware is important again

Arm and Nvidia spot a squirrel

Breathless reporting makes news of Nvidia's and Arm's collaboration on Xavier sound like earth shattering news.  Nvidia and Arm recently announced that they would be working together to make Nvidia’s Deep learning Accelerator (NVDLA) accessible to ...

UPDATE: Jon’s wish list

HP has just released 16 new products. One of them is, in my unhumble opinion, a real standout – the HP 34-inch 4K curved all-in-one.   This is a system with built-in induction phone charging, ...

Big changes at Qualcomm

In cost cutting moves to appease Wall Street, Qualcomm has laid off a bunch of its GPU and vision team, and some high-profile members of the company have left the company because of it.  The ...

AMD at Intel

The triumphant now wear blue badges

CorelDraw from an ex Visio user’s perspective

CorelDraw is a BIG program, over 170 MB—over two times bigger than Word, and it takes a minute and half to load. Popular with graphics artist for almost 30 years, it was one of the ...

Nvidia’s Xavier is the harbinger of the future

Nvidia's big, bad Xavier is the first of a breed of processors that will power the modern world At GTC 2016, Nvidia previewed “Xavier,” an SoC that integrates a 512-core Volta GPU and an 8-core ...

On getting integrated

The pendulum swings back — Apple kills Intel’s share price Back in the 1980s and all the way to the mid-1990s the big computer companies at the time were known as the BUNCH – Burroughs, ...

GPU’s names

The basic graphics processor unit—GPU is recognized as one of the most significant developments in computer processing, exceeding the DSP in importance, and challenging the ubiquity of the CPU. GPUs can be stand-alone or integrated ...