If Intel isn’t going to roll out 7 nm until late 2021, then that means the dGPUs Intel has said it will release later this year will be at 10 nm. Otherwise, Intel will use a merchant fab like Samsung or TSMC to get a 7-nm dGPU to be competitive with AMD and Nvidia who is expected to announce a … Read more
The Finnish headset company Varjo is building no-compromise VR. In 2019, the company started making a strong case for its high-resolution products including its VR-2 headsets and its new mixed reality headset, the XR-1, being sold to developers. The company has been iterating on the same design built around human-eye resolution, integrated eye tracking, and support for industrial applications. The … Read more
From the network to the far edge
PTC issued an optimistic release for the fiscal first quarter of 2020. The company came through a rough 2019 with problems in its channel and problems converting customers to subscription at the expected rate. The company said it knew about the problem and that they’ve pulled the right levers to fix it. They seem to be right. The company had … Read more
I had a conversation with Jacob Smith, the CMO of Packet. Packet is a company that manages the raw infrastructure in data centers and has various products that automate data center tasks. They are being acquired by Equinix, of dot com infamy, who has quietly returned to a very large presence in US data infrastructure. The fun part of it … Read more
With the massive media coverage of CES, high hotel costs, and almost guaranteed postshow sickness from the petri dish of global germs originating from more than 160 countries, many people opt out of attending the event. However, many others continue to brave the chaos and for good reason. The 170,000 attendees in 2020 got to see, feel, and use things … Read more
Every day in their engineering jobs with leading OEMs and graphics card manufacturers, the representatives of the SPEC Graphics and Workstation Performance Group (SPEC/GWPG) assess the latest technologies designed to make their products run professional applications faster and more efficiently. In their role with SPEC/GWPG, they take that knowledge and develop benchmarks that test real-world performance in ways that … Read more
Boxx Technologies recently announced that its APEXX T3 workstation now features the new, 3rd generation AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X processor—AMD’s highest performing desktop processor. Boxx is among the first workstation manufacturers to ship systems equipped with the new processor. Boxx sees the new workstation being used for rendering complex 3D scenes, encoding, or powering simulation and analysis. In such applications, … Read more
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the company’s GPU technology conference in China. (Source: Nvidia) Nvidia has been holding GTC conferences around the U.S. and the world and recently held one in China. At the Chinese GTC, the company announced a deal with Didi, an app-based transportation provider (similar to Uber) to use Nvidia GPUs in its data center for … Read more
Knowing how you stand up to the competition is critical
If you like fast cars, exciting race scenes, and some pretty good acting, then treat yourself to two and half hours of terror, frustration, and thrills—go see the blockbuster movie Ford vs. Ferrari. See it on a big screen with a great sound system. The movie is a flashback to the time when need-for-speed was expressed in the development … Read more
A group of enthusiasts is proposing a new set of graphics instructions designed for 3D graphics and media processing. These new instructions are built on the RISC-V base vector instruction set. They will add support for new data types that are graphics specific as layered extensions in the spirit of the core RISC-V ISA. Vectors, transcendental math, pixel, and textures … Read more
