The demarcation between 2017 and 2018 is nothing but an imaginative fabrication that doesn’t link, or sync up with any natural occurrence or historical event, and is merely a counting convenience. Julius Caesar’s calendar, established in AUC 708 (1 January 45 BC) is an arbitrary mess that we struggle with through with a mnemonic poem (30 days hath September,…). Think … Read more
TIBURON, CA- December 29, 2018 —Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry's research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia has just released its annual review of GPU developments for 2017. In spite of the slow decline of the PC market overall, PC-based GPU sales, which include workstations, have been increasing. In the mobile market, integrated GPUs have risen at the same rate as mobile … Read more
Supplement to Q3’17 Market Watch Jon Peddie Research estimates that Crypto-currency mining accounts for $1.05 billion dollars in AIB revenue since Q1’15, and accounts for sales of 4.6 million AIBs. Ethereum and Bitcoin, are among the best known crypto currencies but many more have appeared in the market. Some have already come and gone. Bitcoin arrived in 2009 and set … Read more
Not only taking longer, costing more too—do we care?
$2.64 billion in sales, $838 million profit-up 44% from last quarter Nvidia reported record revenue for the third quarter ended October 29, 2017, of $2.64 billion, up 32 percent from $2.00 billion a year earlier, and up 18 percent from $2.23 billion in the previous quarter, with growth across all its platforms. The company’s GPU business revenue was $2.22 billion, … Read more
Science fiction comes to life and Intel leverages its manufacturing capabilities and top of the line parts to create a new PC segment. Intel will be buying custom chips from AMD, and marrying them with high band width memory (HBM2), and Intel’s 8th gen H-series CPU into a super-thin package.
Raven Ridge is the codename for AMD's Ryzen 7 2700U Processor with Radeon Vega Graphics. In choosing a name AMD wanted to highlight the Vega graphics as a discrete graphics alternative. We however expect abbreviated forms to be used, and would have been happy with Raven Ridge. Still, the point is important: marrying an x86 processor with a GPU in … Read more
