Sharp rise in global GPU shipments in Q3’19 reports Jon Peddie Research
The PC GPU market shipments increased 10.7% sequentially from last quarter, but decreased 5.6% year-to-year
AMD announces its new RX 5500 is stuck in an Apple
AMD announced the Radeon RX 5500 series GPU based on their RDNA gaming architecture and promising the ultimate in high-performance, high-fidelity 1080p gaming. The company claims the Radeon RX 5500 series provides up to 37% faster performance on average than the competition in select titles at 1080p, supercharging top AAA and eSports games. Acer, HP, Lenovo, and MSI to … Read more
GPU outlook for PC gaming and data centers
The PC GPU market is multi-segmented over several platforms and multiple market categories. Therefore, it is not possible to make summary assumptions and predictions about GPUs because a GPU is not a single thing. This is an overview of the GPU market. It is not meant to be exhaustive, but rather one of our regular updates on the topic. … Read more
Ray ray the gang’s all here with Microsoft DirectX raytracing’s 1.1 tier
Microsoft is all-in on ray tracing, and well they should be as the dominating PC gaming platform and a significant console supplier. When Nvidia announced its RTX series Turing-based GPUs at Siggraph in July 2018, Microsoft was right behind with its Windows 10 OS and SDK to support for DirectX raytracing (aka DXR tier 1.0) in October 2018. Within one … Read more
AMD reports Q3 2019 results: good news continues
AMD’s third-quarter earnings results matched Wall Street’s expectations and surprised a few others with its jump in profits. AMD reported its quarterly results for calendar Q3 2019, revenues and operating income were up year-over-year as well as its graphics and compute groups revenue. Profits and announced earnings per share were 18 cents on revenue of $1.8 billion. Analysts expected … Read more
AMD reports Q3 2019 results: good news continues
Lisa Su is not tired of winning. Revenue for the quarter was up 18% from last quarter to $1.8 billion, GAAP profit was $120 million, 243% from last quarter.
And then there were three—nanometers from TSMC
While Intel struggles to get the yield on 10 nm up to acceptable levels, TSMC, which is already shipping 7-nm parts to AMD, Qualcomm, and others, has built a 5-nm fab and is now getting a site ready for a 3-nm fab. Europeans consider hair with a diameter of 0.04 to 0.06 mm as thin, hair with a diameter between 0.06 and 0.08 mm … Read more
Corel picks up the AI brush for Painter products
The Painter family of products has its origins in MetaCreations, a digital arts development powerhouse in Santa Barbara. They were early pioneers in computer graphics software for artists and the work they did lives on at Daz3D, Poser, and most vibrantly at Corel in Painter. The implosion of MetaCreations as a company at the turn of the century is a … Read more
Imagination Technologies ups its cadence and product breadth
Ranging from semi-custom to mass market
AMD shows end to end options at IBC
AMD came to IBC, full of confidence after a successful Siggraph, increasing interest from Hollywood for Threadripper, and automatic cred from Apple with the upcoming Apple Mac Pro. At the show, AMD showed off its range of products including a sleek little MacBook Pro, nothing special, hooked up to a Black Magic external box giving the MacBook Pro enough GPU … Read more
Trade war and TSMC’s finite foundry capacity threaten high-performance semi market
On the bright side, the market for 7nm semis is booming; on the flip side, capacity is constrained
AMD total GPU market share exceeds Nvidia; but Nvidia still dominant discrete GPU supplier
Total PC GPU market share Our Market Watch report for the second quarter of 2019 raised eyebrows when it revealed that AMD had reached a new milestone by selling more GPUs than Nvidia. AMD's achievement is significant and has been hard-won, but it’s not exactly the harbinger of a new world order as some readers have interpreted it. AMD … Read more