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AMD’s new Ryzen 6000 processor

AMD announced the Fusion project in 2006 after the acquisition of ATI: the integrating of a GPU with the CPU. However, Intel beat AMD to it and in January 2011 introduced the Clarkdale with an integrated GPU. AMD came out in June 2011 with the Llano and called it an APU—Accelerated Processing Unit. AMD always had more shader cores than … Read more

Happy birthday, PIXEL

On a cool early autumn day in Bellingham, WA, in 1965. The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers—SPIE staff were still in the glow of celebrating their 15th anniversary when they published Frederic Billingsley’s paper, Digital Video Processing at JPL.

Happy birthday PIXEL

 Image credit, JVC Creative Commons   On a cool early autumn day in Bellingham, WA, in 1965. The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers—SPIE staff were still in the glow of celebrating their 15th anniversary when they published Frederic Billingsley’s paper, Digital Video Processing at JPL. They didn’t know it at the time, but it was a landmark publication and firmly … Read more

Tribute: the father of the pixel

Frederic Crockett Billingsley was an American engineer who developed techniques for digital image processing while at JPL working on U.S space probes to the moon, Mars, and other planets.

Intel’s GPU could bruise AMD and Nvidia 5 ways

It’s no longer if, but when Intel will reveal its consumer-class discrete GPU (dGPU) family. And when it does, it will initially have a negative impact on the incumbent PC dGPU suppliers AMD and Nvidia. Later in 2021 or 2022, the company will ship its high-end Ponte Vecchio AIB for the Aurora supercomputer. If everything goes right for Intel and … Read more

A 5-year vision for workstation graphics performance

  Every day in their engineering jobs with leading OEMs and graphics card manufacturers, the representatives of the SPEC Graphics and Workstation Performance Group (SPEC/GWPG) assess the latest technologies designed to make their products run professional applications faster and more efficiently. In their role with SPEC/GWPG, they take that knowledge and develop benchmarks that test real-world performance in ways that … Read more

Giant Intel gears up for dGPU battle

Former PR manager at AMD and now head of engineering at Intel, the invincible Chris Hook called together his team of 500 engineers in Folsom, CA, who are building Intel’s dGPU and asked them what was being done right and what needed improvement. They told him, and he says (representing management), “we’re listening.” Hook’s real job, however, is Discrete Graphics … Read more