Dell spends billions of dollars on R&D—BILLIONS. R&D expenses were $4.4 billion for Fiscal 2018 and $2.6 billion for Fiscal 2017. With a budget like that, some interesting things can be done, and Dell is doing them. One of the areas the company has been exploring is gaming, and the Alienware group has come up with a handheld device … Read more
There was one thing that was truly revolutionary in gaming in 2019, the Google Stadia launch.
The Radeon 5500 XT put AMD back in the running in having a solid midrange AIB
Valve introduced their Index VR HMD mid-year 2019, with a declaration that it intended to raise the bar for VR fidelity. The company emphasized that VR needs to advance in three key areas: affordability, ease of use, and fidelity. And their conclusion is that Valve is best suited to work on the latter, while leaving the rest to others in … Read more
Not a subscription service, a delivery system of your games
Stadia is making headlines with its streaming game service but a pack is forming close behind. Sony has been in the game. Watch for entries from Sony, Microstation, Nividia, and Samsung Cloud gaming has been tried since 2003, by several companies. Since then, the internet has gotten a lot faster, and processors have too. The time may be right … Read more
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
Due to the incorporation of cameras on the front of what have been traditionally known as “VR headsets,” the VR and AR industries were faced with a conundrum and an overlap. AR can be experienced through cameras in a VR head-mounted display (HMD). In fact, the vast majority of headset AR on the market today is experienced through cameras. … Read more
Nvidia has been extremely clever at squeezing an ROI out of its failed efforts to enter the mobile phone and tablet business. The slick cliché slingers call it pivoting, we call it making lemonade, our cliché is better. The tiny but mighty Arm-based Tega SoC that drank too much of a mobile phone’s battery does just fine in automobiles, … Read more
We keep getting requests from Quora and occasional friends asking, what is the best AIB for____, or can AMD XXX do better than Nvidia YYY? Mostly there are lazy questions that could be asked by the questioner with a little effort and web searching. We never answer such questions, although there seem to be plenty of people within Quora … Read more
What’s the game, what’s you budget, do you care about power consumption?
If you’ve ever played with or installed wi-fi operated lights like GE smart bulb or Philips’ Hue, then you’ve had the pleasure and fun of making them change color and brightness on command or by a timer. What if you could have those effects while you were playing a game? What if when you went into a dark tunnel or … Read more
