Strong murmurs and rumors out of China indicate Zhaoxin might introduce a dGPU. How did they manage to do that? Well, it starts back in the late-1980s with the founding of Via Technologies. In 1987, Cher Wang, heir to the Formosa Plastics Group, set up the company to supply motherboard chipsets and components but almost from the very start, the … Read more
The Radeon 5500 XT put AMD back in the running in having a solid midrange AIB
Nvidia significantly increases market share in the quarter
We keep getting requests from Quora and occasional friends asking, what is the best AIB for____, or can AMD XXX do better than Nvidia YYY? Mostly there are lazy questions that could be asked by the questioner with a little effort and web searching. We never answer such questions, although there seem to be plenty of people within Quora … Read more
What’s the game, what’s you budget, do you care about power consumption?
The next great hurdle has been conquered
AMD lifted the AIB market in the quarter
This is the third in a series of short articles about graphics chips, controllers, and processors, that changed the course of the computer graphics (CG) industry. When IBM introduced the Intel 8080-based Personal Computer (PC) in 1981, it was equipped with an add-in board (AIB) called the Color Graphics Adaptor (CGA). The CGA AIB had 16 kilobytes of video memory … Read more
In my recent editorial on future AIB prices in the U.S. due to the tariff war between Trump and China, I forecasted a decline in sales this holiday season and next year if the tariffs stay in place. In the mercurial environment the U.S. finds itself, with special cutouts and mood swings by Trump, the “if” is a big factor. … Read more
Better buy them now
EVGA celebrated its nineteenth anniversary this week,and held a scavenger hunt on its web page by placing 10 hidden badges on their website. The company is offering a huge list of prizes including gaming PCs, Processors, a Monitor, sound bar, SSDs, memory, VR headset, keyboards, gear, and EVGA bucks. The company also introduced an Anniversary Retro Wave Gaming event on the … Read more
Samsung is the first to announce the availability of JEDEC GDDR6 CMOS 8 Gb through 16 Gb x16 dual channel SGRAM (Synchronous Graphics Random Access Memory) memory devices for use in advanced graphics processing for gaming devices and graphics cards as well as automotive, network and artificial intelligence systems. “Beginning with this early production of the industry’s first 16Gb GDDR6,” … Read more
