Pandemic distorts global GPU market results
Shipments surprise: Jon Peddie Research reports that PC GPU market shipments increased by 2.5% sequentially from last quarter
Nvidia’s Q2 FY21 results
Nvidia reported revenue, for the second quarter ended July 26, 2020, of $3.87 billion, up 50% from $2.58 billion a year earlier, and up 26% from $3.08 billion in the previous quarter. Nvidia closed its acquisition of Mellanox Technologies Ltd. on April 27, 2020. The company’s graphics business revenue was $1.9 billion, down 9% from last quarter, yet enjoyed a … Read more
The hot GPU chips
I didn’t have to drive one and a half hours each way to hear and see the GPU presentations at Hot Chips this year, something I will be eternally grateful for. I did miss getting to see some of my friends, but I see many of them on Zoom calls anyway. The air didn’t get any more polluted and my … Read more
Intel Q2’2020 results
The new normal is not normal, and may not be again for a long time. Q2 which has traditionally been a down quarter was up for Intel year-to-year, and flat quarter-to-quarter. But Q3 is being guided down, and Intel still is dealing with manufacturing issues—the new normal. By midday the day after Intel’s report, AMD soared over 15% while Intel … Read more
Nvidia’s super AIB powers Florida supercomputer HiPerGator
University of Florida HiPerGator The University of Florida announced a public-private partnership with Nvidia to build the fastest AI supercomputer in academia capable of 700 petaflops AI performance. The University says the new computer will catapult UF’s research strength to address some of the world’s most formidable challenges, create unprecedented access to AI training and tools for underrepresented communities, and … Read more
The long run of Death Stranding
A beautiful atmospheric game with no story, little action
Nvidia builds the car of the future, Mercedes supplies the sheet metal
I want it. I want it now! Jensen Huang, CEO of premium brand Nvidia, said, “No longer will the best moment of your car experience be at the point of the sale. In the future, that will be the starting point of one’s experience with a beautiful Mercedes-Benz.” What he was talking about is the newly announced partnership between Mercedes-Benz … Read more
Global GPU market’s growth blunted by COVID-19 in Q1’20 reports Jon Peddie Research
PC GPU market shipments decreased -5.3% sequentially from last quarter but increased 14.9% year-to-year.
Will AI obsolete game engines?
As an artificial agent plays the GAN-generated game, GameGAN responds to the agent’s actions, generating new frames of the game environment in realtime
Will AI obsolete game engines?
Nvidia’s GameGAN can
Nvidia’s Q1 FY21 results
Nvidia beat Wall Street’s expectations with their financial report and saw increases from all reporting segments. Revenue for the first quarter was $3.08 billion, up 39%from $2.22 billion a year earlier, and down 1% from $3.11 billion in the previous quarter. The company’s Graphics business revenue was $1.9 billion, down 9% from last quarter, but that’s a 25% increase from … Read more
Nvidia’s massive Ampere GPU
Nvidia has been pushing the envelope on graphics chips since it integrated the geometry processor and pixel shader into one chip and called it a GPU, 21 years ago. The potential for GPUs then vastly expanded in 2003 when a branch of development spiked out of GPU applications that took advantage of the GPUs parallel processing for pure computation using … Read more