Arm and Nvidia in the news
A quick summation: Arm–Nvidia deal gets more complicated, the more you know …
Anari—come together, over me
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
Nvidia’s Q2 FY22 results
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
Jensen Huang to Receive Semiconductor Industry’s Top Honor
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
Blending into the Omniverse, Nvidia signs up new partners
What is the metaverse. (Source: Nvidia) Nvidia announced a significant expansion of its Omniverse simulation and collaboration platform—through new integrations with Blender and Adobe. Omniverse is now available to potentially millions of more users. The world’s leading open-source 3D animation tool, Blender, will now have Universal Scene Description (USD) support, enabling artists to access Omniverse production pipelines. Adobe collaborates … Read more
AMD’s RDNA 2.0 add-in board delivers performance in the mid-range
The RX 6600 XT stacks up to its predecessors while being power conscious
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