(Source: Samsung) Samsung used the 2021 Hot Chips conference, thirty-third in the series, to further reveal and promote a novel alteration of how high-speed memory could be built with AI technology. Samsung’s revelations included the successful integration of its processing-in-memory (PIM)-enabled High Bandwidth Memory (HBM-PIM) into a commercialized accelerator system. That, said Samsung, would broaden PIM to include DRAM … Read more
No, not a new Steve Winward song, a new GPU family As you know, or should know, Intel has been up to their old trick of changing names and requiring you to get an upgrade to your Captain Midnight decoder ring. They did a few weeks back when Pat Gelsinger came in and introduced the world to Angstroms. And … Read more
Intel revealed some of the details of their newest CPUs, a few tidbits of their Ponte Vecchio HPC GPU. They also mentioned their someday recently renamed consumer GPUs that are going to put AMD and Nvidia out of business. First off, and totally seriously, the Intel presentation was one of the best-looking and well-organized I have ever seen. Intel has … Read more
An Intel chip (maybe DG1). (source: Intel) After years in the process, Intel has come up with several names for their proposed someday dGPUs. To tell the world about it, Intel’s marketing department shed a little of the spotlight on some of the troops who are valiantly struggling to fulfill Raja Koduri’s promise. A group of them made a … Read more
Two new Chrome-based devices from HP add styling and additional features to up the ante on the Chrome-based computers. (Source: HP) Chromebooks have been gaining a steady edge in the PC’ish market since their introduction in 2011. They have met the needs of students and people looking for a lightweight computer to provide walk-around accessibility to the Interest. Google’s … Read more
HP’s Chromebase. (Source: HP) HP introduced their Chromebase 21.5-inch All-in-One Desktop and claims it is the world’s first Chromebase All-in-One with a rotating display The screen can tilt 20 degrees upwards and easily rotate 90 degrees from landscape to portrait mode. The HP Chromebase AiO also has a split-screen feature that allows for viewing multiple pages simultaneously. The device … Read more
Mac Pro driving three screens. (Source: Apple) AMD tied two of its new RDNA 2 GPU together with its Infinity Cache and made the Radeon Pro W6000X, a custom AIB series for Apple. AMD says the new AIB product line delivers exceptional performance and incredible visual fidelity to power a wide variety of demanding professional applications and workloads, including … Read more
Intel has received a lot of criticism about losing its cadence in semiconductor node steps. Part of the criticism was over naming the features used for defining a node. Should it be the width of the gate, the length, how do you address 3D, stacking, and wrapping? No simple answer. If you think you might live long enough, you could … Read more
Leonardo Chiariglione Every time you watch a video or listen to music on your phone, computer, or TV, you use a data compressor-decompressor called a CODEC. By compressing the data representing the content you’re interested in, more people can use the already crowded networks we rely on every day, all day. The primary CODEC in use today is MPEG—the Moving … Read more
During their first-quarter financial results announcement, AMD announced astounding results overall, and a big leap for the AMD EESC segment. Out of $3.45 billion total revenue, the company reported $1.35 billion in revenue for the company’s EESC (Enterprise, Embedded, and Semi-Custom) segment and says it represents a 286% growth year over year. Pretty impressive no? The company says much of … Read more
Source: Stefen Chow IEEE Spectrum Anyone interested in graphics add-in boards (AIBs) knows the supply has gone to zero and the prices have hit the stratosphere. But why? There are several possibilities, but most of the blame is being laid at the door of the crypto miners, particularly the Ethereum miners. Why? Because the Ethereum algorithm for hash monitoring takes … Read more
(Source: AMD) During AMD’s CEO Lisa Su’s Computex keynote presentation, the rightfully proud president revealed AMD’s new secret weapon for improved performance of the company’s Zen processors. With TSMC’s help, AMD will bond the L3 cache directly to and on top of the Zen CPU via Vias (through-silicon vias—TSVs). In addition to the new 3D stacking approach, the size … Read more
