Virtual Studios: Who benefits in a revolution? – JPR panel discussion at SIGGRAPH 2018
JPR SIGGRAPH Luncheon, Vancouver 2018, Pan Pacific Hotel
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
Dell’s 13-inch 2-in-1, the Latitude 7390
Multi-function feature rich mobile PC
Dell’s 13-in 2-in-1, the Latitude 7390
Dell sold its first laptop in 1989, and it still looks good today. Dell's first laptop, the 316LT, 1989 For the past 30 years, Dell has made lots of laptops, notebooks, and tablets, so it’s learned a few things. Its also learned about user’s wants and needs. And, the company has stayed at the leading edge of technology. All … Read more
Brian Krzanich Resigns from Intel
Not above the rules, but his vision and mission is at risk