What if Intel bought Arm?
Switzerland maintained, Nvidia denied
What if what if?
If Nvidia did go for Arm, which I think would be a brilliant move, that would be a serious blow to Intel, and a potential torpedo for the open-source RISC-V adventure, of which Nvidia is a participant.
Moving Picture, Audio and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence
Source: Depositphotos Leonardo Chiariglione, an Italian engineer best known as the co-founder and former chairman of MPEG, is proposing to establish a new organization called Moving Picture, Audio, and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence (MPAI). The organization will have a twofold mission: to develop standards for compression of video, audio, and data, and to bridge the gap between its … Read more
Acer unveils a slew of new notebooks
Image credit: Acer Founded in 1976, Acer has been expanding and enhancing its footprint in the notebook market for 15 years, and each new introduction has been impressive. This year is not different when at Acer’s virtual press conference the company rolled out four new notebooks, a desktop unit, and a gaming chair as well as an energy drink … Read more
An Apple Arm a day keeps the Intel away
Arm photo credit Jude Beck Rumors of Apple designing and using its own CPU began back in 2008 when the company bought P.A. Semi, a 150-person chip company in Santa Clara, P.A. Semi, was founded in 2003 by Dan Dobberpuhl, who was a lead designer for the well-regarded Alpha and StrongARM microprocessors developed by Digital Equipment in the 1990s. … Read more
Lenovo’s new ThinkPad P mobile workstations
Three 15-inch and a 17-inch with WS dGPUs
Lenovo’s new ThinkPad P mobile workstations
Lenovo has launched the next generation of the ThinkPad P Series: the ThinkPad P15, ThinkPad P17, ThinkPad P1 Gen 3, and the new ThinkPad P15v. In addition, the ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 3 will also make its debut. Lenovo makes the bold claim that the new ThinkPad 1 the most powerful X Series commercial laptop. All the laptops are equipped … Read more
Nvidia’s Q1 FY21 results
Nvidia beat Wall Street’s expectations with their financial report and saw increases from all reporting segments. Revenue for the first quarter was $3.08 billion, up 39%from $2.22 billion a year earlier, and down 1% from $3.11 billion in the previous quarter. The company’s Graphics business revenue was $1.9 billion, down 9% from last quarter, but that’s a 25% increase from … Read more
Will AI obsolete game engines?
Forty years ago, PAC-MAN appeared in arcades in Japan and munched a path to global stardom. Now the retro classic has been reborn and delivered courtesy of AI. Trained on 50,000 episodes of the game, a new AI model created by Nvidia Research called GameGAN, can generate a fully functional version of PAC-MAN—without an underlying game engine. That means that … Read more
A mini platform from Intel: the NUC
Mini unit now extended to professional applications
A mini platform from Intel: the NUC
From a strategic standpoint, Intel is intentionally not in the business of making money from selling systems. And for good reason, as doing so — at least on any kind of consistent basis —would alienate its OEM customers, whose existence does depend on making money from selling systems. However, to help seed demand, especially for novel products, Intel will create … Read more
It’s Springtime in Ryzen land
New processors are popping up all over