AT CES this week, Nvidia announced a new slew of features for Omniverse and made it free for individual creators. Omniverse is a new work environment from Nvidia bringing together 20 years of graphics, AI, simulation, and compute in a single platform based on USD and aimed at enhancing 3D workflows. This platform has been in beta for the last … Read more
2021 was an uneventful year for GPUs and AIBs. Neither AMD nor Nvidia introduced a new GPU architecture, and only released AIBs based on derivatives of their 2020 GPUs. It will be mid-February before we get the final results, but we estimate the desktop PCs will hit 117 million, notebooks 297 million, workstations 3.5 million, and tablets 170 million units … Read more
If you are the one person who hasn’t heard the U.S. FTC may block San Jose-based Nvidia’s intention to acquire UK-based Arm from Japan-based Softbank, then let me be the one to bring you up to date. On Thursday, the Federal Trade Commission moved to block Nvidia’s planned $40 billion purchase of SoftBank’s semiconductor business Arm Ltd., saying the deal … Read more
Nvidia's Q3’21 earnings report continues the company’s revenue gains and sets another record. For the third quarter ended October 31, 2021, the company reported sales of $7.1 billion, up 50% from a year earlier and up 9.2% from the previous quarter, with record revenue from the company’s Gaming, Data Center, and Professional Visualization platforms. The company’s Graphics business revenue was … Read more
When Qualcomm introduced its PC clone that could run Windows and apps, people got curious. Was it just a Chromebook competitor or was there something new going on? Intel tried it with PDAs back in 1999 with StrongARM, but Microsoft didn’t get it then and made a half-hearted offering of a stripped-down OS, not the real Windows, and people weren’t … Read more
AMD reported revenue for the third quarter of 2021 of $4.3 billion, an operating income of $948 million, and a net (GAAP) profit of $923 million. “AMD had another record quarter as revenue grew 54% and operating income doubled year-over-year,” said AMD president and CEO Dr. Lisa Su. “3rd Gen EPYC processor shipments ramped significantly in the quarter as our … Read more
The RX 6600 is targeted at the 1080P gaming.
Electronic Arts have joined GeForce Now and will allow some of their most beloved franchises to be acquired by the growing global audience instantly.
A quick summation: Arm–Nvidia deal gets more complicated, the more you know …
In November 2019, open standard API developer and harmonizing industry force, Khronos, enthralled developers and users alike with their proposed data visualization initiative to work on a cross-platform analytical rendering API. Prior to Khronos gathering the SciViz world, developers working in scientific visualization faced a chaotic, waring gaggle of awkward, conflicting, and confusing plug-ins, interfaces, and wannabe APIs. No one … Read more
May the Omniverse be with you (Source: Nvidia) The company again reported record revenue gains. For the second quarter ended July 30, 2021, the company reported sales of $6.51 billion, up 68 percent from a year earlier and up 15 percent from the previous quarter, with record revenue from the company’s Gaming, Data Center and Professional Visualization platforms. The company’s … Read more
Thirty-one years ago the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) set up the Robert N. Noyce Award, the industry’s highest honor to recognize individuals for outstanding achievement and leadership in support of the semiconductor industry. Lumiaries like Wild Corrigan, Jerry Sanders, and Jack Kilby have received it. Last year Lisa Su received it and Robert H. Dennard, DRAM Inventor the year before … Read more
