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VPU—Evolution of an acronym

In 1992, Pixel, a subsidiary of Circus Logic, introduced two new digital video chips, the CL-PX2070 and CL-PX2080. Those chips were the most sophisticated and complex chips for multimedia and video applications we had seen and were designed to process and display multiple streams of full motion video at the same time. The PX2070 had four major functional units: the … Read more

Dell at Gamescom

Gamescom saw the introduction of new products from Dell under the brand name of Alienware and Dell. Dell used the event to preview new products coming soon in the September 2018 time frame.  Dell showed two new Dell monitors and Alienware gaming laptops & desktops. Dell launched its 24-inch and 27-inch monitors with  AMD Freesync support for a smooth gaming … Read more

Machine learning: the new nirvana for FPGAs?

That’s the view of a significant number of players in the ML game, anyway. Even discounting the fact that this opinion is largely heard from companies with FPGAs to sell, it has gained enough traction that it has to be taken seriously;  Microsoft has based its entire Azure business strategy on FPGA-accelerated servers and Americo-Chinese company DeePhi, recently acquired by … Read more

Sony Innovation Studios to offer tools for immersive storytelling and digital asset creation

Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has partnered with Dell, Deloitte Digital, and Intel to launch Innovation Studios being built on its Sony Pictures lot in Culver City, CA. Innovation Studios is expected to be operational early this Fall. SPE is saying that Innovation Studios will be new state- of-the-art digital technology facility featuring R&D in areas like volumetric video and customizable … Read more

Will Siggraph 2018 be the year of ray tracing?

As we try to mitigate our excitement in the run up to Siggraph, which can only be compared to the weeks before Christmas, subtle hints and leaks are dribbling out of some of the exhibitors and paper presenters as they employ guerilla marketing techniques to vie for big(er) headlines when the actual event happens. Announcements from Pixar, Intel, Microsoft, Nvidia, … Read more

Intel Q2 2018 results

Intel reported its calendar Q2 2018, revenues were up 15% year-over-year driven, says the company, by strength across the business and customer demand for performance-leading Intel platforms.  ”After five decades in tech, Intel is poised to deliver our third record year in a row. We are uniquely positioned to capitalize on the need to process, store and move data, which … Read more

AMD Q2 2018 results

AMD reported a record quarter for calendar Q2 2018, revenues and operating income were up as well as its graphics and compute groups revenue and profits.   ”We had an outstanding second quarter with strong revenue growth, margin expansion and our highest quarterly net income in seven years.” – Lisa Su Every metric was up including the company’s gross margin which … Read more

What has 24 shaders and 2 CPUs — Amber Lake

Amber Lake-Y processors employ Intel's UHD Graphics 615 (GT2) integrated graphics processing unit (iGPU). The iGPU features 24 Execution Units (EUs) running at a base clock of 300 MHz with a turbo clock up to 1000 MHz depending on the model. That’s a pretty decent GPU, and even though its constrained with UMA (uniform memory access) the M in UMA … Read more

Happy Birthday Intel

Intel celebrates its 50th year as an on-going enterprise. Fifty years ago, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore founded Intel with a purpose: to ponder what might be possible. Intel’s anniversary is officially July 18, 2018, but it’s a company born at the dawn of the technology industry—the advent of the integrated circuit. Since then Intel's impact has been felt through … Read more

HP announces four more for the desktop and floor and calls it Gen four

HP has been expanding its workstation line using both professional 8th generation E2100 Xeon CPUs and 8th generation Core processors, equipped with either AMD Radeon Pro AIBs, Nvidia Quadro AIBs, or Intel HD graphics for the budget-minded. HP has established the platform for factor, and then broadened each one with a wide range of option in processor type, GPUs, and … Read more