GEE F decides to be GF
Globalfoundries agrees to what the world said
The case for desktop workstations
Jon Peddie Research (JPR) recently reported that the overall workstation market volume in Q1’21 grew about 27.7% YoY, a milestone for workstation sales. The strong rebound in workstation shipments was no surprise, as positive signs regarding the pandemic by mid-quarter (in the US and EMEA particularly), along with successful deployment of vaccines (though geographically varying) clearly improved purchasing outlooks among … Read more
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang receives Lifetime Achievement Award by Asian American Engineer of the year
for contributing as a visionary and innovator in parallel computing technology that accelerates the realization of AI computing
Smoke, mirrors, DLSS on Arm—is that even possible?
Few people love ray racing more than me. And now Nvidia has made it possible to see ray tracing in a fast action FPS on a low-power notebook, proving it isn’t the CPU that makes it work. At GDC, Nvidia showed Wolfenstein: Youngblood running with ray-traced reflections enabled and DLSS in operation on an eight-core MediaTek CPU and an Nvidia … Read more
AMD’s FidelityFX super resolution
AMD has added hardware acceleration and scaling to their GPUs and AIBs to enhance and speedup gaming and make it a realtime operation. The company has offered the enhancement to developers in an open-source manner via its OpenGPU program. That will make it useful for any GPU, of almost any vintage. AMD has branded it FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR). Raster-scan … Read more
Graphics workstation set volume record in Q1’21
The year-to-year growth of 28% on the back of strong global rebound
Crypto-mining’s half a billion dollar impact on AIB sales
Bots, scalpers, miners, and speculators drain the AIB supply and inflate prices
Crypto-mining’s half a billion dollar impact on AIB sales
Source: Stefen Chow IEEE Spectrum Anyone interested in graphics add-in boards (AIBs) knows the supply has gone to zero and the prices have hit the stratosphere. But why? There are several possibilities, but most of the blame is being laid at the door of the crypto miners, particularly the Ethereum miners. Why? Because the Ethereum algorithm for hash monitoring takes … Read more
Imagination shows the way to ray tracing
A ray traced version of Imagination Technologies’ headquarters building Imagination has had ray tracing capabilities since 2010 when they acquired the boutique ray tracing company Caustic. Caustic had developed a hardware accelerator which Imagination turned into an RTL core and added to their stable of IP accelerators. The company has built out their ray tracing SDK and, in the … Read more
New notebooks updated with Nvidia’s RTX 3050 ray tracing tech
Got your ray tracing on yet? What are you waiting for, there’s over 140 notebooks to choose from with prices as low as $800. You can get a new notebook with Nvidia’s new RTX3050 that runs Nvidia’s new DLSS 2.0 ray tracing magic. If you’re a gamer, even a casual gamer, you can game in a ray traced environment with one … Read more
Nvidia will offer DGX mini-supercomputers for rent
During their GTC 2021 online event, Mr. Manuvir Das, Head of enterprise computing at Nvidia, announced that the new DGX Station A100 and DGX SuperPod mini-super computers will be available on a rental basis as well as for sale. The option is helpful for customers who have limited cash flow available to purchase a new supercomputer or in many cases … Read more
Nvidia’s pro-graphics and data center AIBs
At Nvidia’s Graphics Technology Conference (GTS 2021), the company announced eight new Ampere GPU-based AUB for next-generation laptops, desktops, and servers. For desktops, the new Nvidia RTX A5000 and Nvidia RTX A4000 AIBs join the A6000 and feature new RT Cores, Tensor Cores, and CUDA cores for AI, graphics, and real-time rendering. They are up to 2× faster than previous … Read more