Nvidia

Got too much money, want a gaming board?

Line up at the nearest Nvidia store to get a TitanX Collector’s Edition Coming soon—Nvidia’s Titan X Collectors Edition AIB (Nvidia) Blinking lights, anybody’d guess what’s in it?  HBM2 maybe, a la Volta. A big fat GPU with a lot of shaders?  A collector’s item for the rich? Only from Nvidia—no partners need apply. Remember the Founder’s edition last year? … Read more

Nvidia is doing to HPC/AI what they did to gaming

Revolutionizing it I could watch Jensen Huang read the damn phonebook and be enthralled. He’d make me willingly, and enthusiastically believe that not only did Nvidia invent the phone and the phone book, but all the people in it as well. And, as soon as the presentation was over, I’d rush out and buy a phone book, and a phone—but only if … Read more

Nvidia’s Q3 FY18 results

$2.64 billion in sales, $838 million profit-up 44% from last quarter Nvidia reported record revenue for the third quarter ended October 29, 2017, of $2.64 billion, up 32 percent from $2.00 billion a year earlier, and up 18 percent from $2.23 billion in the previous quarter, with growth across all its platforms. The company’s GPU business revenue was $2.22 billion, … Read more

What you call VR, I call a CAVE

Back in the fall of 1991, when many of you were still in school, and the old guys reading this were trying to figure out how to get two or more AIBs to work together, Tom DeFanti, Dan Sandin and colleagues designed the very first — and trademarked — CAVE (cave automatic virtual environment), and built it at the University … Read more

Jon Peddie Research: Multiple Displays can Increase Productivity by 42%

Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, today revealed that information workers, designers, and engineers can realize up to a 42% increase in productivity through the use of multiple displays according to JPR’s latest multi-monitor report. The 140-page report covers the results of a survey of over 1,000 end users about the use … Read more

EVGA goes crazy fast— or maybe just crazy

Proving being cool is the key The folks at EVGA were bored one afternoon, and so Jacob Freeman said, “Hey, I know what we can do with that liquid Nitrogen left over from the beer party—let freeze some 1080Tis.  Freeman’s excited voice woke Joe Darwin from his caffeine deprived coma and he said, “Sure, call Vince and see his burns … Read more