The Exynos 2200 series of chips was announced on January 18th and is planned for the Galaxy S22, Galaxy Z Fold3, and Flip3 phones. The Exynos 2200 SoC is based on Samsung’s 4-nm processing node. The chip’s GPU is named Xclipse 920 and uses AMD’s RDNA2 GPU IP including AMD’s intersection ray-tracing processors—making Exynos 2200 SoC the first mobile processor … Read more
Special, big black scientific machines have been with us since the 1940s. They’ve used pretty much the same amount of floor space but have gone up orders of magnitude in performance from generation to generation. At the start of 2022, the Frontier supercomputer is being installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and will be the first computer in the … Read more
Cameras are everywhere and in everything. The market and applications have exploded in the last ten years. But a cohesive set of standard APIs has been slow to emerge making compatibility challenging. Hoping to wrestle the multi-tentacled beast under control, Khronos has teamed up with the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) and formed a new Khronos Working Group to develop … Read more
At CES, Jeff Fisher, AKA Mr. GeForce at Nvidia introduced the GeForce RTX 3050, 3080 Ti, 3070 Ti, and 3090 Ti GPUs for desktops and laptops. Somewhere along the way or shortly afterward, word came out that new RTX 3080 AIBs would get 12 GB of 19 Gbps GDDR6, which represents a 20% increase in memory bandwidth. Twenty percent is … Read more
Helium was founded in San Francisco in 2013 by Shawn Fanning, Amir Haleem, and Sean Carey, with a mission to make it easier to build connected devices. Mining HNT with blockchain hotspots is done via radio technology, not expensive or wasteful GPUs, says the company. San Jose was the first city to launch the people’s network. And the Dish network … Read more
Imagination is no newcomer to CPUs and designed a few for its audio and TV products and some other special-purpose products. Its big move, however, was In 2012 when Imagination announced it would acquire MIPS for $60 million. In 2017 Imagination sold MIPS for $65 million, so Imagination could be acquired by Canyon bridge. Imagination had been a partner with … Read more
The GPU market has expanded with the announcement that Innosilicon, a cryptocurrency ASIC builder, have applied their talents to building a GPU using Imagination Technologies’ BXT 32-1024 MC4 RTL IP. The company was founded in 2006 in Zhuhai, China, a modern city in China’s southern Guangdong province, on the border with Macau, with R&D in Shanghai and Wuhan. The company … Read more
When Qualcomm introduced its PC clone that could run Windows and apps, people got curious. Was it just a Chromebook competitor or was there something new going on? Intel tried it with PDAs back in 1999 with StrongARM, but Microsoft didn’t get it then and made a half-hearted offering of a stripped-down OS, not the real Windows, and people weren’t … Read more
Qualcomm Technologies has introduced four new mobile platforms—Snapdragon 778G Plus 5G, 695 5G, 480 Plus 5G, and 680 4G—which the company claims will enable increased performance and capabilities across its high-, mid-, and entry-tiers. The company reports that there is: significant traction and momentum across all Snapdragon tiers. Qualcomm is betting that by bringing improved features from the Snapdragon 8-series … Read more
The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) announced Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) Standard version 1.5. It retains all key features of the previous specification while adding additional capabilities and performance such as an improved panel self-refresh protocol coupled with enhancements to VESA’s Adaptive-Sync protocol. VESA says it should result in added power savings and improved motion image quality. For devices such as … Read more
The era of exascale is here. With it comes an immense amount of computational power coupled with the merging of HPC and AI. And all that is enabling researchers to tackle grand challenges once thought beyond reach. Jumping into the lofty world of HPC and AI, AMD has introduced its Instinct MI100 accelerator and claims it is the world’s fastest … Read more
Think Silicon, the IP GPU company in Patras, Greece that Applied Materials acquired in May 2020, just revealed their new 3D and AI-based GPU IP. The company was founded in 2007. In 2009 they released their first graphics accelerator called Think2D and a display controller ThinkLCD. Then in 2011 the company released a vector graphics GPU, Think VG. They licensed … Read more
