AMD’s Radeon RX 5600 XT
AMD’s newest VGA controller doesn’t have VGA
Intel Q4 2019 results
Intel beat Wall Street’s expectations again with its fourth-quarter financial performance sending the company’s stock up to an all-time high Friday after the chipmaker reported late-Thursday afternoon terrific results for the last quarter in 2019. Twenty billion dollars. Think about that for a moment. If every human, man, woman, child or politician, oh wait, I did say, human, if … Read more
Up, it’s up, OMG the PC market is UP!
PC market shows signs of growth or does it
Intel announces discrete GPU DG1 at CES
Intel seldom disappoints at CES, and this year they clearly had more to tell than the time allotted to do it. From autonomous cars, supercomputers to micro IoT thingies. Vice President Gregory Bryant showed the tiny but powerful 10 nm, Tiger Lake processor based on the Willow Cove architecture and said it is in full production. Gregory Bryant holding a … Read more
Famous graphics chips: HP’s Artist Graphics
In 1993, facing heavy competition from Sun, HP set the design goal for its new 32-bit HP 9000/712 workstation to reach performance levels of 1992-era workstations and servers at a fraction of their fabrication costs. Their target was the earlier generation HP 9000/735. To accomplish that HP employed VLSI technologies for the processor components, which were state of the … Read more
Apple says sorry, can we make up?
Apple signs multi-year license with Imagination Technologies
Intel really respects AMD technology
Image by mgallon from Pixabay When Intel was struggling with Itanium, it shifted to the x86 64-bit approach AMD developed. When Intl realized parallel buses weren’t going to scale much further, it copied AMD’s hyperlink. And when Intel wanted a compact high-performance GPU, it went to AMD for a dGPU to put into its Kaby Lake-G multichip processor. When … Read more
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 865
Qualcomm says its new Snapdragon 865 mobile platform scales 5G and 5th gen AI to power next-generation, premium devices with breakthrough features—from Gigapixel speed photography to desktop-level gaming features to staggering multi-gigabit 5G connectivity. The company claims the new Adreno 650 GPU in the Snapdragon 865 has 25% faster graphics rendering over the previous-gen GPU and is 35% more … Read more
Qualcomm introduces Snapdragon 7c & 8c compute platform
Built with mobility in mind, says Qualcomm, the Snapdragon compute portfolio accommodates the evolving needs of mobile consumers. The Snapdragon 7c and 8c now join the previously announced Snapdragon 8cx, offering fast cellular connectivity to premium, mainstream, and entry-level notebook PCs. The portfolio is available in various price points allowing partners to design always on, always connected PCs for … Read more
In 2019, the world returns to normal
The PC GPU market is tremendously influential as the power of GPUs have helped create a vibrant gaming industry that has continued to expand since the arrival of GPUs in the 90s. Gaming gets the headlines, but 3D professional applications including CAD design rendering, analysis, VFX work, video rendering all benefit from the GPU’s ability to do massive parallel processing … Read more
Think Silicon shows early preview of industry’s first RISC-V GPU
At the upcoming RISC-V Summit, Think Silicon will reveal what it claims is the industry’s first RISC-V ISA based 3D GPU—the NEOX|V. The new offering, says the company, provides a platform for implementation in multiple embedded and external devices across many consumer and industrial vertical markets including graphics, compute, and AI for IoT/Edge/Compute. Think Silicon believes the NEOX|V will also … Read more
Imagination teaching course on mobile graphics
Imagination Technologies announced their course on mobile graphics for under-graduate teaching as part of its Imagination University Programme (IUP)