Qualcomm’s handheld, game console, reference design. (Source: Jon Peddie) In December 2021, Qualcomm announced a handheld game console reference design. Qualcomm has had a long and effective history of developing reference designs to illustrate how their SoCs could be successfully employed. Often, some OEMs would use the entire design either because they had limited design resources, time, or because … Read more
Not for everyone, Amazon’s New World MMO is demanding and has a few glitches, but it has fierce defenders as well. (Source: Amazon) Dinner out with a young friend who asks, is Amazon still bricking GPUs? Er, what? The gamers among you probably know all about this. Amazon’s new MMO New World, a Windows game introduced last summer, had … Read more
AMD reported revenue for the third quarter of 2021 of $4.3 billion, an operating income of $948 million, and a net (GAAP) profit of $923 million. “AMD had another record quarter as revenue grew 54% and operating income doubled year-over-year,” said AMD president and CEO Dr. Lisa Su. “3rd Gen EPYC processor shipments ramped significantly in the quarter as our … Read more
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Gene Roddenberry is the creator of the popular Star Trek universe of movies and TV series. Now, a new partnership has been formed, called the Roddenberry Archive, to document his creative works.
Qualcomm, Microsoft, Valve and some OEMs think it’s time to redefine wireless expectations for latency-sensitive gaming, productivity, and learning applications on Windows 11 PCs. They are going to do that with Qualcomm’s chip-based FastConnect systems, which enable Wi-Fi Dual Station. Wi-Fi Dual Station using Qualcomm 4-Stream Dual Band Simultaneous is a Windows 11 feature that allows multiple Wi-Fi bands … Read more
Electronic Arts have joined GeForce Now and will allow some of their most beloved franchises to be acquired by the growing global audience instantly.
Year-to-year gain of 179%, down 5% from last quarter
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May the Omniverse be with you (Source: Nvidia) The company again reported record revenue gains. For the second quarter ended July 30, 2021, the company reported sales of $6.51 billion, up 68 percent from a year earlier and up 15 percent from the previous quarter, with record revenue from the company’s Gaming, Data Center and Professional Visualization platforms. The company’s … Read more
An Intel chip (maybe DG1). (source: Intel) After years in the process, Intel has come up with several names for their proposed someday dGPUs. To tell the world about it, Intel’s marketing department shed a little of the spotlight on some of the troops who are valiantly struggling to fulfill Raja Koduri’s promise. A group of them made a … Read more
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