Array Technology Inc. was founded in 1985 by K.Y. Ho, and the Lau brothers, Lee, Francis, and Benny, in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. The company subsequently moved to Markham, just north of Toronto, in 1993. The company built sub-assemblies for the still new PC industry and introduced one of the industry’s first graphics boards. By 1987, ATI had grown into an … Read more
In the beginning, back in when the fabulous 286 was introduced in 1982, several companies sought to clone it, AMD being the most successful. That started the MHz wars, and we users and the happy replicants of the war, the ISVs, enjoyed the bi-annual clock increases and subsequent performance boosts. Ah, those were the days when we have a simple … Read more
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For the first time in a decade, AMD’s CPU portfolio is positioned to not only serve one or two segments of the workstation market, but its entire breadth. Based on its Zen CPU architecture the company has rolled out four brands to power virtually any type of workstation model a professional customer may be interested in — from the single … Read more
JPR reports that the GPU market increased year-to-year by 3.4%; sequentially GPU shipments decreased -10%
HP isn’t a flashy company, but boy do they have style. Known and respected for their engineering, their products have been attractive, but not usually head-turning. That was then, this is now. You might have gotten a hint that the company was up to a major refresh when they recently introduced their stylized logo for their premium products. The logo … Read more
Fastest boot-to-shoot Enmotus, as you will recall, has designed some clever storage-blending coupled with machine learning to make frequently used applications and files first to load, and run. Is that important? And if it is, can you measure it, can you prove it? Yes, yes, and yes. We took an AMD Threadripper with an EVGA 1080Ti, and ran some tests … Read more
And next year you might be able to get one First announced, sort of, at E3 2017 (as the Ataribox), the Atari big brass came to San Francisco during GDC 2018 and showed a few reporters a mockup in the Marriott Marquis. We’re not exactly sure why they did that because they really didn’t have anything to show or say. … Read more
Fastest boot-to-shoot Enmotus, as you will recall, has designed some clever storage-blending coupled with machine learning to make frequently used applications and files first to load, and run. Is that important? And if it is, can you measure it, can you prove it? Yes, yes, and yes. We took an AMD Threadripper with an EVGA 1080Ti, and ran some tests … Read more
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 fist vector graphics programs to run on a PC. The multi-layer program comes with more tricks and tools than I have time or stamina to … Read more
Hang an external AIB box on it. But not just any box, and not just any AIB. Apple recently announced that it is offering support for certain external chassis equipped with certain AMD AIBs. Such chassis are referred to as an eGPU, an external GPU and frequently called a box or even a bread box, so they become a EGPUBB … Read more
New data including in Market Watch and Add-in-Board Reports
