For Q3 2020, Intel reported a decline in sales (revenue), profits, and margins even as even though more people bought PCs, as consumers and companies adjusted to work at home. Likewise, organizations and governments pulled back on data center spending. The company also acknowledged its next generation of chipmaking technology was six months behind schedule. Overall PC sales were up … Read more
A huge Adobe Max conference is on the way. It doesn’t seem as if the company has cut back at all. This year’s show has 56 hours of live broadcast, 275 sessions and is free to everyone. As a result, says the company, they have over 200,000 registrants in the weeks before the conference. We believe it, there are millions … Read more
Nvidia and its founder, CEO Jensen Huang, deserve credit for building and delivering an astounding blivit. A blivit for those new to this channel is 5 pounds of stuff in a 10-pound bag. In the case of Nvidia’s keynote address this week, it was 100 pounds of stuff in a one-pound bag—simply amazing. The good news is, it is recorded … Read more
Pixels™, from rock groups to clothing, to pinpoints of light, they have been an intrinsic part of our life, vocabulary, and concept since the 1800s. Alas no longer may we use it with abandon, it is now the property of Google™. The term “Pixel™” can be found throughout our industry and many others. A “pixel™” is the smallest element of … Read more
In the first decade, the technology gods separated the data and the code and invented the mainframe. It was expensive to install, complicated to operate and did not have much software. Then the technology gods created an IT department to feed and care for the mainframe. Corporate management thought it was too expensive, but the IT department solved more problems … Read more
In 2009 rumors started about the possibility of Nvidia acquiring AMD to give Nvidia a CPU capability. In 2011 Jensen Huang settled the subject decisively when he said, Arm is our CPU. Nine years later he put the period on that statement when he announced the acquisition of Arm for $40 billion. The rumor that Nvidia might acquire Arm has … Read more
In an open letter to the community, NAB president and CEO Gordon Smith announced that NAB will be delayed until October 9-13, 2021 in Las Vegas. Smith said that through his research, talking to potential exhibitors, attendees, sponsors, etc., he found a significant number of people were skeptical about the industry’s ability to back up to speed in the first … Read more
Apple has announced the 2020 winners of its annual design awards. The Apple Design highlight applications that excel in design and innovation in apps and games. This year eight companies have won with applications representing a wide range of capabilities and functions including games, art, photography, and CAD. Shapr 3D István Csanády, Shapr3DZRT Shapr isn’t exactly running under the radar, … Read more
Over the years we have reported the attach rate of GPUs. Attach rate is the ratio of GPUs to CPUs or PCs. If a PC has two GPUs in it then that PC’s attach rate is 200%. Since most CPUs have a built-in GPU, an integrated GPU (iGPU), the attach rate can never get below 100%. However, not all CPUs … Read more
Nvidia reported revenue, for the second quarter ended July 26, 2020, of $3.87 billion, up 50% from $2.58 billion a year earlier, and up 26% from $3.08 billion in the previous quarter. Nvidia closed its acquisition of Mellanox Technologies Ltd. on April 27, 2020. The company’s graphics business revenue was $1.9 billion, down 9% from last quarter, yet enjoyed a … Read more
Photo credit Cottonbro Pixels.com When Intel launched their Larrabee project back in 2009 to build a revolutionary MIMD style GPU they hired just about anyone who could spell GPU. Some of those people left when the project was canceled, but many of them stayed, scars and all. Then in 2018 when the company valiantly decided to take another run … Read more
Trimble came out of 2019 with record results and it made it through the first quarter reasonably well. Meanwhile, Rob Painter took over as CEO in January and articulated a Connect and Scale 2025 strategy that would take the company to subscriptions and cloud-based services where it made sense and on to a stable growth trajectory. Then came Q2 and … Read more
