COVID-19 pulls in global add-in-board sales
Nvidia had a huge jump in market share to 78%
The hot GPU chips
I didn’t have to drive one and a half hours each way to hear and see the GPU presentations at Hot Chips this year, something I will be eternally grateful for. I did miss getting to see some of my friends, but I see many of them on Zoom calls anyway. The air didn’t get any more polluted and my … Read more
GPU scheduling—don’t be late
Source: Daily Mail GPU Scheduling—was is it, who needs it, who wants it? The (May 2020, ver. 2004) updated Microsoft’s Windows 10’s DirectX API got a new optional feature called Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling—a feature designed to reduce latency caused by buffering between the CPU and GPU. Microsoft says DirectX 12 can now offload most of GPU scheduling to a … Read more
Global PC Gaming Hardware Market Forecast to Surge by $3.6 billion in 2020 due to COVID-19
PCGHW market sales will increase 10.3% sequentially from last year
CorelDraw Technical Suite 2020 fills out product line
Technical Suite is the last of CorelDraw’s rolling introduction, which includes CorelDraw Essentials 2020 for creative consumers, occasional users, CorelDraw Standard 2020 for office, CorelDraw Graphics Suite for professionals, and now CorelDraw Technical Suite for technical documentation. There’s a version of CorelDraw for everyone. CorelDraw Technical Suite is not for everyone. It’s a Windows-based application for content creators working with … Read more
An Apple Arm a day keeps the Intel away
Arm photo credit Jude Beck Rumors of Apple designing and using its own CPU began back in 2008 when the company bought P.A. Semi, a 150-person chip company in Santa Clara, P.A. Semi, was founded in 2003 by Dan Dobberpuhl, who was a lead designer for the well-regarded Alpha and StrongARM microprocessors developed by Digital Equipment in the 1990s. … Read more
AMD’s new Ryzen 3000XT processors
AMD continues to expand its popular Ryzen processor line on the desktop. The company has just announced three pin-compatible products with boost frequencies as high as 4.7 GHz, targeted at the enthusiast community. To make sure the enthusiasts get it, the company has added the XT suffix to the part numbers. The company said the companion 550 chipset is also … Read more
GPU and CPU companies fight the virus
The PC GPU and CPU suppliers came forward and quickly to offer what they had in equipment, personal, and money.
It’s Springtime in Ryzen land
(Source: Skitterphoto) AMD has been fertilizing their seedling cores and watering them every day, and now that the sun is out and the cold of winter tossed off, new cute little Ryzens are popping up, rolling hills and fields full of them. But, like all wonders of Spring, they won’t last. OEMs will be gobbling them up for the … Read more
Famous graphics chips ATI 3D Rage
ATI, founded in 1985 as Array Technology Inc., in Thornhill Canada just outside of Toronto, was a pioneer in the graphics chip and add-in board market. It was acquired by AMD in 2006 and formed what is now the Radeon Technology Group. In the fall of 1995, ATI announced its first combination of 2D, 3D, and MPEG-1 accelerator chip … Read more
Chasing the nanometer
Increasing the yield by using smaller die could offset the flattening of Moore’s Law.
Switch epilog
The Coronavirus pandemic is upending just about every market and gaming has come in for more than its fair share. After all, when you’re locked up with nothing to do, there’s a whole lot of people who will do nothing but game. Nintendo is struggling with supply chain issues as demand upends projections and makes a joke of JIT manufacturing.