Qualcomm announced this week three new additions to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 and 400 tiers: the Snapdragon 632, 439, and 429 mobile platforms. These platforms, says the company, are engineered to bring higher performance, better battery life, more efficient designs, impressive graphics and AI capabilities into the highest selling Snapdragon tiers. Snapdragon 632: Based on their market research and customer … Read more
Dell sold its first laptop in 1989, and it still looks good today. Dell's first laptop, the 316LT, 1989 For the past 30 years, Dell has made lots of laptops, notebooks, and tablets, so it’s learned a few things. Its also learned about user’s wants and needs. And, the company has stayed at the leading edge of technology. All … Read more
Acer has been surprising us for years with small-sized, high resolution bright projectors that don’t cost very much, and the V6810 is no exception. The latest from Acer America is a compact 4K UHD projector for home cinema can display up to 120-inch 4K UHD (3,840 × 2,160) with plenty of brightness—2,200 lumens to be exact ~642 Nits*. You need … Read more
Fujitsu Limited and the RIKEN center for computational science, announced the joint development of post-K, a supercomputer that the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) has set forth as a successor to the K computer, is moving forward. The goal is to be in full operation around 2021. Fujitsu Post-K ARM Supercomputer, Exascale by 2021 Fujitsu … Read more
Based on HPE's Apollo 70 the Astra supercomputer will be comprised of 2,592 dual-socket nodes, containing 145,000 cores—the largest such system the company has delivered. Each node will have two 28-core Cavium ThunderX2 processors running at 2.0 GHz. The nodes will draw 1.2 MW of power. The Astra supercomputer is the first deployment of the of the Department of Energy’s … Read more
If you were lucky enough to get to go to the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in Salt Lake City, and if you were one of the twenty lucky enough once there to get tapped by Nvidia’s gregarious CEO Jensen Huang, then you went home with a 32 GB Titan V supercomputer AIB. Jensen Huang demonstrating his largesse in … Read more
In the beginning, back in when the fabulous 286 was introduced in 1982, several companies sought to clone it, AMD being the most successful. That started the MHz wars, and we users and the happy replicants of the war, the ISVs, enjoyed the bi-annual clock increases and subsequent performance boosts. Ah, those were the days when we have a simple … Read more
Arm’s recent Premium Launch gave us an insight into upcoming products aimed at the higher end of the mobile and consumer device markets. In there with the new Cortex-A76 CPU and the Mali-G76 GPU (subscribers see related story) was the Mali-V76 VPU, a new video codec IP core that delivers 8K UHD encode and decode. Integration of Arm’s IP engines … Read more
In computer graphics, too much is not enough. I first said that in 1980 I think, and its been true ever since. That’s why I’m such a pixel pig, sitting here writing this with 50 megapixels spread across three 31-inch monitors in front of me (4K-8K-4K), and I’d take more if I could get it (and an AIB to drive … Read more
Arm has been steadily improving the Mali GPU since they acquired it from Falanx twelve years ago. The little GPU has found its way into TVs, phones and tablets, automobiles, and various consumer and industrial devices. The little GPU that could, and did, has gone through several architectural evolutions, the latest being the Bifrost and implemented in the Mali-G71 last … Read more
AMD and Nvidia, despite how they poster and position themselves, have limited resources; and since there are only 25 hours in a day, they have to pick their priorities carefully. And even though there was a lot of fanfare when Koduri rejoined AMD in 2013, the Vega product line was less than stellar, although it did have a surprising advantage … Read more
From the beginning of second quarter of 2017 to the end of the first quarter of 2018, almost sixty-four million AIBs were shipped—63, 887,712 to be exact. In one year, there are 31,536,000 seconds in an average year (not factoring in leap year offsets). More AIBs per year than seconds, over twice as many in fact. That’s almost as many … Read more
