Demonstrating a profound faith in the future of the PC in China, and seeking to reduce costs, three Chinese firms Phytium, Jingjia, and Innosilicon are believed to have signed licenses with Imagination technologies to produce discrete GPUs. The companies are operating in stealth mode for the present, but one, Phytium Technology in Tianjin’s Binhai High-Tech Industrial Development Area, disclosed in … Read more
New machines for the holiday season
Reports from sites and bloggers, reliable and otherwise, have been swirling since October that Sony’s next-gen PS5 will support ray tracing using an AMD custom VPU. That small, basic bit of information was also confirmed at a press briefing at the end of January by AMD project manager Mithun Chandrashekhar, who said, “RDNA 2, the next-gen, will support raytracing. Both … Read more
Join AMD and you too can have a ball on your cheek If any company in the computer industry can be described as the comeback kid, it’s AMD. All but written off eight years ago, AMD has risen out of the ashes with remarkable momentum and accomplishments. The company has grown market share in all segments from Client to … Read more
If Intel isn’t going to roll out 7 nm until late 2021, then that means the dGPUs Intel has said it will release later this year will be at 10 nm. Otherwise, Intel will use a merchant fab like Samsung or TSMC to get a 7-nm dGPU to be competitive with AMD and Nvidia who is expected to announce a … Read more
The PC GPU market shipments increased 3.4% sequentially from last quarter, but decreased year-to-year by -1.3% year-to-year
Powering new superdupercomputer
AMD turned 50 in May 2019 Despite a great quarter, AMD’s stock was down about 2.6% after the company reported its Q4’19 which beats Wall Street estimates. The problem was the company’s guidance for Q1’20 was slightly below what Wall Street anticipated. The company announced revenue for Q4’19 of $2.13 billion, operating income of $348 million, net income of … Read more
PC market shows signs of growth or does it
New survey reveals games installed base and buying plans
Boxx Technologies recently announced that its APEXX T3 workstation now features the new, 3rd generation AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X processor—AMD’s highest performing desktop processor. Boxx is among the first workstation manufacturers to ship systems equipped with the new processor. Boxx sees the new workstation being used for rendering complex 3D scenes, encoding, or powering simulation and analysis. In such applications, … Read more
Image by mgallon from Pixabay When Intel was struggling with Itanium, it shifted to the x86 64-bit approach AMD developed. When Intl realized parallel buses weren’t going to scale much further, it copied AMD’s hyperlink. And when Intel wanted a compact high-performance GPU, it went to AMD for a dGPU to put into its Kaby Lake-G multichip processor. When … Read more
