We’ve been tracking GPU and before that graphics controller shipments for decades, and we think we have a sense of their trends and seasonal behavior. Most recently, our Market Watch report for Q3 2020 reveals unusual buying patterns for graphics boards and we naturally wondered, what’s up? Look at the following chart that shows shipments for the past 15 … Read more
(Source: Clker-Free-Vector-Images) Intel has been laying the groundwork for its new, Xe line of discrete GPUs (dGPU). The company has a long history in graphics, determined this time to avoid past mistakes. Intel has taken several runs building a discrete graphics chip to take on the market leaders. But the company has had a challenging time. They never seemed … Read more
A Wonderful New Look—back to the future
San Jose based Pixelworks is announcing the i6 processor, its sixth generation mobile visual processor, and the first with low-power AI tech (built on the Company’s mobile display datasets). AI comes into place to adaptively optimize picture quality. The i6 processor, says the company, uses AI to intelligently upscale the dynamic range of video and gaming content while concurrently optimizing … Read more
After months of leaks, rumors, and speculation, Intel formally and officially released the details of its 11-generation processor, code-named Tiger Lake. The processor leverages Intel’s SuperFin 10 nm process and introduces Intel’s first integrated Iris Xe GPU claiming 2× the performance over the previous generation — 2× is a lot. The CPU and other processors as well as the communications … Read more
San Jose based Pixelworks is announcing the i6 processor, its sixth generation mobile visual processor, and the first with low-power AI tech (built on the Company’s mobile display datasets).
11th Gen core and new thinner, lighter platform
Switzerland maintained, Nvidia denied
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.
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
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
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
