Jon Peddie Research Finds PC Gaming Hardware Market Growth Stable
The PC Gaming Hardware market will grow to almost $37 billion in 2022; but at a modest 1.05% CAGR from 2018 levels
Intel Q4 2019 results
Intel beat Wall Street’s expectations again with its fourth-quarter financial performance sending the company’s stock up to an all-time high Friday after the chipmaker reported late-Thursday afternoon terrific results for the last quarter in 2019. Twenty billion dollars. Think about that for a moment. If every human, man, woman, child or politician, oh wait, I did say, human, if … Read more
Ambarella expands its platform to meet Intel’s challenge
CES, the land of dreams, hopes, and big promises. Ambarella was founded in 2004 on the basis of a massive semi-smart image sensor with video-compression. Four years later, the company introduced its flagship product, the H2 with an image processing pipeline that included a 10-bit HDR video processing and imaging that could handle challenging low-light conditions. In 2011, the company … Read more
Intel announces discrete GPU DG1 at CES
Intel seldom disappoints at CES, and this year they clearly had more to tell than the time allotted to do it. From autonomous cars, supercomputers to micro IoT thingies. Vice President Gregory Bryant showed the tiny but powerful 10 nm, Tiger Lake processor based on the Willow Cove architecture and said it is in full production. Gregory Bryant holding a … Read more
UNISOC and Imagination strategic cooperation on AI
Imagination Technologies announced that the fabless semiconductor company UNISOC has licensed Imagination’s latest generation of neural-network accelerator (NNA)
Xilinx Vitis AI SDK for inferencing
Automatically complies to FPGA
Intel’s embedded multi-die interconnect bridge
Most chips in today's smartphones, computers, and servers are comprised of multiple smaller chips invisibly sealed inside one rectangular package. How those multiple chips—often including CPU, graphics, memory, IO, and more—communicate has been a challenge for circuit, chip, and packaging designers? Intel thinks they’ve got the answer with their EMIB (embedded multi-die interconnect bridge) which is a complex multi-layered sliver … Read more
And then there were 13, or is it 16?
GPU suppliers are expanding
A rose by any other name is still a PC
It seems some PC suppliers are (just now?) discovering that people buy PCs and use them for different applications in addition to what the PC supplier promotes them for or how they are branded. Imagine! Some PC suppliers are betting the CAD market may become a new growth driver for the PC market. As a result, several tier-one suppliers have prepared … Read more
Famous Graphics chips: Intel 740
Intel has tried several times to get into the stand-alone graphics chip market. Its first attempt in 1982 was the cross-licensing of the NEC 7220, which became the Intel 82720. Then in 1983, Intel made the iSBX 275 Multibus-based add-in graphics board (AIB) with the chip. Its second attempt was in 1988 when it released the 82786, which it billed as … Read more
Intel GPU turned on, 7nm on track
Everybody dance now: the Intel machine seems back on track Intel released their third-quarter results (see TechWatch, Intel Q3 2019 results) and reported record results. In the analyst call, Intel’s CEO Bob Swan said the company is on target to return to a schedule of major manufacturing upgrades every 2 to 2.5 years. In addition, Swan said, “We are on … Read more
And then there were three—nanometers from TSMC
While Intel struggles to get the yield on 10 nm up to acceptable levels, TSMC, which is already shipping 7-nm parts to AMD, Qualcomm, and others, has built a 5-nm fab and is now getting a site ready for a 3-nm fab. Europeans consider hair with a diameter of 0.04 to 0.06 mm as thin, hair with a diameter between 0.06 and 0.08 mm … Read more