Global Q3’19 add-in board market soars led by Nvidia, reports Jon Peddie Research
Nvidia significantly increases market share in the quarter
AMD releases the 7-nm Pro W5700
The evolution of graphics processors has profoundly changed over the last 20 years. The first specialized graphics architectures were almost purely fixed-function and could only accelerate a very limited range of computation such as geometry or lighting transformations. Programmable shaders gave developers new levels of capabilities, but with allocated functionality. Unified shaders offered dynamic load balancing and advanced branching. … Read more
Alas poor Vega M, I knew thee well
Intel abandons its Kaby Lake multi-chip fix
AMD’s RX5500 GPU coming soon, to you
The long-rumored and highly anticipated AMD RX5500 GPU is here, well it will be here soon. AMD is only announcing the GPU, one for mobile (RX5500m) and one for desktop (5500 Series), and the company’s AIB partners will build the mainstream boards based on the chip. That’s the fashion with AMD and Nvidia: build the high-end and midrange AIBs, … Read more
AMD shows end to end options at IBC
AMD came to IBC, full of confidence after a successful Siggraph, increasing interest from Hollywood for Threadripper, and automatic cred from Apple with the upcoming Apple Mac Pro. At the show, AMD showed off its range of products including a sleek little MacBook Pro, nothing special, hooked up to a Black Magic external box giving the MacBook Pro enough GPU … Read more
AMD Q2 2019 results
AMD reported its quarterly results for calendar Q2 2019, revenues and operating income were down year-over-year as well as its graphics and compute groups revenue and profits. “I am pleased with our financial performance and execution in the quarter as we ramped production of three leadership 7-nm product families,” said Dr. Lisa Su, AMD president and CEO. “We have reached … Read more
Stalking through Chernobyl
A cloud of radioactive material settled over Ukraine and Belarus after a critical failure blew apart a Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station reactor in 1986. The resulting death toll had exceeded 4,000. Twenty years later, we got our first view of Stalker at an Nvidia conference where they showed some clips of it. It was amazing than with debris, bits of … Read more
AMD Q1 2019 results
AMD reported its quarter results for calendar Q1 2019, revenues and operating income were down year-over-year as well as its graphics and compute groups revenue and profits. “We delivered solid first quarter results with significant gross margin expansion as Ryzen and EPYC processor and datacenter GPU revenue more than doubled year-over-year,” said Dr. Lisa Su, AMD president and CEO. “We … Read more
The Lisa Su effect
If you believed, you’d a lot richer today
AMD updates ProRender at NAB 2019
AMD used its trip to NAB to showcase the latest additions to ProRender new partnerships and plugins. AMD is driving hard with rendering for 2019 including performance boosts. AMD is updating plug-ins for Max, Maya, and Blender. At AMD, the company was also celebrating its integration into the latest version of the Foundry’s Modo, which was introduced in March 2019. The latest updates … Read more
AMD Q4 2018 results
AMD reported its quarterly results for calendar Q4 2018, revenues and operating income were up year-over-year as well as its graphics and compute groups revenue and profits. “We delivered our second straight year of significant revenue growth, market share gains, expanded gross margin and improved profitability based on our high-performance products. Importantly, we more than doubled our EPYC processor shipments … Read more
AMD’s takes on Intel and Nvidia at CES
Lisa Su made her mark this year at CES. If you listen to the Hollywood chattering classes, you might think that there is no group of people as sexist as movie executives so it’s worth recalling that last year’s CES keynote lineup attracted the same sort of criticism. This was leveled at CTIA management for failing to find a single … Read more