Nvidia reported revenue for the second quarter ending July 31, 2022, of $6.7 billion, up 3% from a year ago and down 19% from the previous quarter. GAAP earnings per diluted share for the quarter were $0.26, down 72% from a year ago and down 59% from the previous quarter. Non-GAAP earnings per diluted share were $0.51, down 51% from … Read more
This is the IEM, or Intel Extreme Masters. It is German esports organizer ESL’s desktop tournament series and is currently the longest-running global pro gaming tour in the world (established in 2006). At the ESL One event in Cologne, Germany, 15,000 fans paid to attend each day. Electronic sports, better known as esports, involves spectator competitive PC gaming tournaments … Read more
Mount Tiburon Testing Labs puts EVGA’s RTX 3090 Ti FTW3 Ultra Gaming AIB through its paces
In March 2022, at its annual new products conference, Apple announced a new version of the M1—the M1 Ultra, a dual-die chiplet device that introduced Apple’s UltraFusion interconnect technology. Apple’s UltraFusion packaging architecture connects two M1 Max die to create the M1 Ultra. (Source: Apple) Apple’s UltraFusion used a silicon interposer to connect the chips across more than 10,000 … Read more
AMD has released its first entry-level AIB based on its RDNA 2.0 architecture. The new Radeon RX 6500 XT is optimal for gaming at 1080p, targeted at new PC builds
Lenovo’s new ThinkStation P620 desktop workstation is based on AMD’s new single-socket, 24-core Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000WX-Series processor CPU.
Nvidia reported a terrific revenue gain of $7.64 billion for the fourth quarter ending January 30, 2022, which was up 53 percent from a year ago and up 8 percent from the previous quarter. Gaming, Data Center, and Professional Visualization market platforms each achieved record revenue for the quarter and year. For fiscal 2022, revenue was $26.91 billion, up 61 … Read more
Sold by Lenovo for $70 US in Chinese markets
The RTX 3050 in its natural habitat Nvidia made a splash at CES this year. Nvidia’s senior vice president, Jeff Fisher proclaimed that 150 million new gamers will enter the market in 2022.” The market has grown to $300 billion in sales in 2021, up to $70 billion from just three years ago,” said Fisher, and “Nvidia is well-positioned … Read more
At CES, Jeff Fisher, AKA Mr. GeForce at Nvidia introduced the GeForce RTX 3050, 3080 Ti, 3070 Ti, and 3090 Ti GPUs for desktops and laptops. Somewhere along the way or shortly afterward, word came out that new RTX 3080 AIBs would get 12 GB of 19 Gbps GDDR6, which represents a 20% increase in memory bandwidth. Twenty percent is … Read more
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
