HP’s new AiO is skinny and makes you look good. (Source: HP) The spring refresh continues as PC companies show new designs with an awareness of the changing boundaries between work and life and IT. The most recent addition to the lineup is HP’s new EliteOne 800 All-in-One (AiO). This one is designed for home or office, but its … Read more
Workstations have proved their mettle during the pandemic—sometimes by their absence. People, who have had to relinquish their powerful computers to work on home computers, have found out how much the workstation’s power, processing, and fast access to data means to them. Others have found it’s well worth the inconvenience to take the office machine home if that’s part of … Read more
If Nvidia is successful in acquiring Arm (and maybe even if they aren’t), Nvidia has some mighty big and small plans for, with, and of Arm. When Nvidia announced it intended to acquire Arm (see TechWatch: https://www.jonpeddie.com/editorials/what-if-what-if), they said in their ambitions (for Arm) in the UK that they would build a supercomputer AI research center in Cambridge. That was … Read more
The PC industry has been on a rollercoaster ride for the past decade or longer: up, down, up, down, up. In 2010, when Paul Otellini was Intel’s CEO, he forecasted robust growth for the PC (and Intel) over the next ten years, and spoke about the next billion units. At the time, the installed base of PCs was a billion … Read more
So long Daydream, you didn’t even flash in your own pan. (Source: Google) Google came up with a great name and a great industrial design for the Daydream, its entry into VR for the Android world, but the company seemed to forget about it after the initial splash. Do you remember when there used to be long lines to … Read more
Leia, a 2014 start-up in Menlo Park, CA, spun out of HP Labs, has developed a diffractive light field backlighting (DLB) display. Developed from work done at HP Labs in the field of nano design and manufacturing, the company’s proprietary diffractive light field display uses finely tuned nanostructures to project a dense light field from a transparent, edge-lit substrate. This … Read more
In honor of the NAB that never was, HP is introducing new products that are designed for creators, which in HP’s view include designers as well as artists. HP distinguishes itself with its full pipeline consisting of 3D printing capability, Hololens devices, and full-color displays. The company is rolling out new mobile devices designed for creatives on the move, even … Read more
The PC business is pretty standardized these days. People know they want a computer, a display, a mouse, a tablet. Many of those people know they’d rather have a major brand for the reassurance of support and security. So, the struggle for the PC companies is to figure out some way to stand out and thrive selling similar stuff to … Read more
Intel’s new Xe-architecture-based discrete GPU will be deployed in Aurora supercomputer at the Argonne National Laboratory
Intel made a few significant and interesting announcements at the 2019 supercomputer conference (SC19) in Denver. The company officially launched its OneAPI, a unified and scalable programming model for heterogeneous computing architectures. Announced a general-purpose GPU-based on the X architecture, code-named “Ponte Vecchio.” claiming it is optimized for HPC/AI acceleration Revealed additional architectural details of the exascale Aurora Supercomputer at Argonne … Read more
This material was a 2018 winner of the Insanity Award given by Allegorithmic to developers who push the software to extremes. Game developers can use textures to add detail to primitive shapes—sometimes to the point of crazy. This kind of work can make sense in the game world where polygons are expensive. (Source: Adobe Substance, material by Jonathan Benainous) … Read more
HP has been pushing on design as well as technology to find their competitive niche. The company’s new consumer laptops with wood finishes are a delight to see and hold. Now comes the commercial version and along the way they’ve lost a little weight and gained some time. The new 13-inch Elite Dragonfly notebook weighs less than a kilogram (~ … Read more
