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
And then there were 21—free ray tracing programs
In the process of preparing our 2019 Ray tracing and Rendering report, we have searched for all the ray tracing programs and suppliers we could find. The report is about geometry-based ray tracing and does not embrace field, optical, audio, or other non-3D (virtual or real) ray tracing applications or software. We have identified 71 raytracing programs from integrated to … Read more
AMD RX 590 extends Polaris to high-end of midrange and celebrates with three games
To celebrate how great the Polaris GPU has been for AMD they are offering a new shrink version with a fantastic deal — a collection of new games. Since it was first announced in 2015, the 14nm “tick” of the Polaris GPU was built in GlobalFoundries’ fab. AMD launched the 14nm RX580 in April 2017 for $229 (8 GB GDDR5). … Read more
AMD RX 590 extends Polaris to high-end of midrange and celebrates with three games
Polaris tick-tock plus a game library
AMD brings Threadripper and new Vega boards to IBC for rendering, VFX, and video
At IBC, digitalization is a done deal and 4K becoming the norm; 8K is coming in with new screens, cameras, transmission systems, CODECS, and lenses all built to satisfy increasing demand. UHD is at home in living rooms around the world and the discussion now is around HDR. All of that adds of the heavy workloads for workstations and servers, … Read more
3 reasons why AMD belongs in your workstation: says AMD
Workstation users buy workstations and/or workstation accessories and peripherals for two main reasons: reliability and performance. Price is usually a low consideration because the relative cost of the hardware to the labor cost of the user and the application costs is quite small, especially over time. But reliability is critical, for all the above reasons. At Siggraph 2018 in Vancouver, … Read more
Passing the baton
One of the great designers, visionaries, and most joyful people in the world is Raja Koduri. He is also a personal friend. Raja, after too many years of 25-hour days, and with a pile of world-class successes behind him has decided to take a new direction in life, and has moved back to India to care for family members and … Read more