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
HP Zs for a new world
Workstations have proved their mettle during the pandemic—sometimes by their absence. People, who have had to relinquish their powerful computers to work on home computers, have found out how much the workstation’s power, processing, and fast access to data means to them. Others have found it’s well worth the inconvenience to take the office machine home if that’s part of … Read more
Boxx offers Flexx’able work at home workstation
At Nvidia’s GPU technical conference (GTC) Boxx held sessions to show how the performance of a desktop workstation in a rack-mounted, high-density form factor, they call Flexx
Boxx offers Flexx’able work at home workstation
At Nvidia’s GPU technical conference (GTC) Boxx held sessions to show how the performance of a desktop workstation in a rack-mounted, high-density form factor, they call Flexx enables organizations to accelerate workflows onsite or remotely. Boxx featured Nvidia’s new A5000 workstation AIB and used case studies from Solidworks showing how Nvidia’s Omniverse enables borderless and time zone-free collaboration. Covering concepts … Read more
Arm says future Mali GPU will do ray tracing
During the Arm V9 announcement, one of the slides shown on the Mali GPU listed new features of Arm’s plans for Mali. Arm said that ray tracing and variable-rate shading, now available in the PC via DirectX 12 Ultimate, will one day be available in Arm-powered smartphones and tablets as part of Armv9. Chips using the new v9 architecture design … Read more
Arm Reveals First New Architecture in a Decade—all data will go through Arm
Arm showed its first new architecture in a decade at its recent one-day virtual conference. Arm introduces their v9 design and provided their macro view of future semiconductor development. As it turns out, from Arm’s perspective, Arm devices will control the world. All data will either be generated, processed, or transferred through and by an Arm device. Arm says it … Read more
Famous Graphics Chips: ATI’s Radeon 8500
The Radeon 8500 AIB launched by ATI in August 2001 used a 150-nm manufacturing process, for its R200 (codename, Chaplin) GPU. The AIB worked with DirectX 8.1 and OpenGL 1.3 APIs. The R200 introduced several new and enhanced features, but the most noteworthy was the ATI TruForm feature. TruForm was a Semiconductor Intellectual Property (SIP) block developed by ATI (now AMD) … Read more