Hail to the DIY’er
Today’s PC industry got its start with Microcomputers that were being built in garages all over the world.
AMD Q2 2021 results
AMD announced revenue of $3.85 billion for the second quarter of 2021, operating income of $924 million, net income of $710 million. “Our business performed exceptionally well in the second quarter as revenue and operating margin doubled and profitability more than tripled year-over-year,” said AMD president and CEO Lisa Su. “We are growing significantly faster than the market with strong … Read more
Intel Q1 2021 results
First-quarter revenue exceeded Intel’s January guidance by $1.1 billion, said the company, led by continued strong PC demand. PC unit volumes were up 38% YoY, and notebook volumes set a new Intel record. The company also saw an initial recovery of Enterprise and Government sales in the Data Center Group (DCG). Intel also achieved better-than-expected revenue in their Internet of Things … Read more
Khronos compresses texture maps for everyone
Over the years of computer graphics, stretching back to Ed Catmull’s pioneering 1974 paper that introduced the concept of subdivision, wrapping, and unwrapping, the CG industry has been trying to find ways to make texture mapping faster and more efficient because it is such a powerful tool. It led to Jim Blinn’s famous 1978 paper on bump-mapping and other developments. … Read more
Intel’s dGPU adventures—Xe
In his own inimitable way, Intel’s Raja Koduri lit up the web this week with his Twitter reveal of a full die shot of the 2-tile, 7-nm Intel Xe HPC GPU. The giant package has 16 clusters with 128 EUs, 1024 EUs total, and 8192 cores. It is alleged to be based on the Intel Graphics 12.5 architecture (revealed in … Read more
Is Nvidia about to change forever?
Nvidia may have started out serving the gaming community with a graphics chip, but the company has always been more than a gaming company. Nvidia is a computer company with strong interests in gaming, but its future is computing. CPU computing, GPU computing, and network computing. Maybe Nvidia should make a change to its name to reflect its broad interests. How about Nvidia Computer, or Nvidia Computing.
Yamaha’s YGY611—a pioneer 3D chips
Yamaha was a developer of video display controllers or processors (VDP) in the late 1980s. The company made IBM compatible CGA display controllers such as the YGY603. The company also made the video display processor (VDP) for the Sega Genesis video game console, and the VDP for TI’s popular TI-99 calculator. Yamaha was, of course, best known for its audio … Read more
Intel introduces Intel Server GPU in the H3C XG310 GPU AIB
Similar chip as used in notebooks
Famous graphics chips: 3Dlabs’ Glint to Permedia
The first commercial workstation class chip for the PC
SiliconArts signs ray tracing MOU with U.S. NewGenGraphics
New silicon solutions expected
AMD’s new Ryzen 3000XT gaming processor series is here
Faster clocks, more cores, four to choose from
Global GPU market’s growth blunted by COVID-19 in Q1’20 reports Jon Peddie Research
PC GPU market shipments decreased -5.3% sequentially from last quarter but increased 14.9% year-to-year.