Back to the future—full-circle on GPU construction
We went from small chips to larger ones, to multi-chip, and then gigantic chips, and now back to a cluster of smaller ones, smaller chips with tiny process nodes.
Q4’21 sees a nominal rise in GPU and PC shipments quarter-to-quarter
The PC GPU market shipments increased by 0.8% sequentially from last quarter and decreased by -15% year-to-year.
AMD backfills workstation lineup with the Radeon Pro W6400 and W6300 Pro graphics boards
AMD is all about the sweet spot, and the company’s latest entries into the workstation market are aimed at a good-sized market: mainstream CAD. As promised in an enigmatic Twitter promo, AMD has rolled out new boards in its Radeon Pro W6000 workstation series targeting CAD designers, engineers, and creatives. The new products include the new Radeon Pro W6400 graphics … Read more
Back 4 Blood—a shooter’s shooter
Non-stop team play dash through zombie land
AMD introduces its next mainstream card based on RDNA 2
The RX 6600 is targeted at the 1080P gaming.
Q2 GPU shipments soar year-to-year
The PC GPU market shipments increased by 3.4% sequentially from last quarter and increased by 37% year-to-year.
Chernobylite
Somewhere between Stalker and FO76
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
AMD Q4 2020 results
AMD announced its Q4’20 revenue hit $3.24 billion, with an operating income of $570 million, and a net income of $1.78 billion. For the year 2020, the company reported revenue of $9.76 billion, operating income of $1.37 billion, and net income of $2.49 billion. “We significantly accelerated our business in 2020, delivering record annual revenue while expanding gross margin and … Read more
Lenovo’s bet on AMD-based workstations has paid off
AMD has been an underdog since the introduction of the ill-fated Bulldozer processor which resulted in the career change of several CEOs, CMOs, and CFO at the company. And then, along came Lisa Su. Saddled with a company no one wanted to work at, no one wanted to buy, and no one thought had any future, she saw something others … Read more
And now, there are three
Building a dGPU that will physically fit inside a thin and light notebook, including its frame-buffer memory, while keeping the power drain down is no simple feat
Nvidia RTX 30×0 series graphics AIB introduced
Leaks, peaks, and sneaks took some of the explosive value out of Nvidia’s big RTX 30 reveal this week, but it was of no consequence because Nvidia had such a big story to tell. Whatever you thought you already knew was nothing compared to what Nvidia showed. Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s co-founder, and CEO, invited us into his kitchen again to … Read more