To the best of our recollection, HP was the first to offer a remote graphics solution that wasn’t based on X-Windows. In the Spring of 2004, HP came up with the idea to allow users of their workstations to share a view. They called it “HP Remote Graphics,” or RGS, and what it did was give a remote colleague the … Read more
Its versatility has lead it to multiple and various platforms
Its versatility has led it to multiple and various platforms
The original use and development for the GPU was to accelerate 3D games and rendering. The acceleration of the game’s 3D models involved geometry processing, matrix math, and sorting. Rendering involved polishing pixels and hiding some of them. Two distinctive, non-complimentary tasks, but both served admiralty by a high-speed parallel processor configured as a SIMD—same instruction, multiple data, architecture. The … Read more
Intel and Samsung are gearing up to introduce new GPUs to the market. GPU design has been stable for over 10 years, but change is coming. In the meantime, the GPU market is showing itself to be large, resilient, and very elastic.
The last major architectural improvement to the basic GPU design happened when the major GPU suppliers went to unified shaders with the introduction of Direct3D 10, Shader Model 4.0, in 2008. That was ten years ago. The unified shading architecture was introduced with the Nvidia GeForce 8 series, ATI Radeon HD 2000, S3 Chrome 400, Intel GMA X3000 series, Xbox … Read more
Used for far more than graphics now
I was reminiscing last week about the GPU and having a friendly debate with my pals at Nvidia about the origin of the acronym. They of course claim they invented it, the device and the acronym, and within certain qualifications they did. The term was first used by Sony in 1994 with the launch of the PS1. That system had … Read more
Not above the rules, but his vision and mission is at risk
Huawei has announced its Honor Play smartphone will employ the company's new “GPU Turbo” technology. Huawei and Honor claim to have improved the graphics processing efficiency by 60 percent while reducing the SoC energy consumption by 30 percent with the new GPU Turbo Boosts. Honor Play smart phone The company says the GPU Turbo technology is built on hardware-software integrated … Read more
In an unprovoked tweet, in the style of a certain golf playing president who now likes kimchi, senior vice president of the Core and Visual Computing Group, general manager of edge computing solutions and chief architect at Intel Raja M. Koduri set off a meme by tweeting from Intel News, “Intel's first discrete GPU coming in 2020:” Every pundit, blogger, … Read more
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