Almost one in three in front of a TV As of this moment, there are estimated to be 323 million people in the U.S. And, according to o Nielsen’s National Television Household Universe Estimates, there are ~120 million homes in the U.S. with (at least one) TV. That’s 2.7 people per household. And yet, U.S. Energy Information Administration – EIA, … Read more
AMD and Intel have launched a slew of new workstation CPUs Get ready for a stream of workstation news over the next few months. We have two new ones in the lab right now, and more on their way. One of the first to announce a new machine, is Lenovo. On Tuesday, September 12th, Lenovo announced two new products within … Read more
A digital version of: look, do it this way Sometimes, it’s the obvious app, that makes the value of a technology screamingly obvious. People have argued that AR is soon to be ubiquitous. In fact, it is already commonplace if you consider all the ways in which we use our digital phone to get more information, translations, etc. PTC’s Vuforia … Read more
The most honest benchmarks available I first encountered the SPEC Graphics and Workstation Group (SPEC/ GWPG) in 1987 while they were still managed by the National Computer Graphics Association (NCGA). They were a bunch of engineers who were trying to establish some stability and rationalization in the evaluation of graphics workstations. That was back when we had a half dozen … Read more
But the questions are a heck of a lot of fun. Aren’t you sick and tired of VR? Look, you can tell me, I won’t tell anyone. I swear. As it happens I’ve been on some juries lately (for papers, not criminals), and a few conferences and it seems no one would dare try and gather 10 people together without … Read more
$14.8 billion in sales, $2.8 billion profit, sales and profits down from last quarter Intel reported its calendar Q2 2017, revenues were flat and profits down in all of its business centers and feels it is on track in its transistor from being a PC only chip supplier. Revenue was $14.8 billion, up 14% year over year excluding the Intel … Read more
$1.22 billion in sales, $16 m GAAP loss for the quarter, sales up, and loss down from last quarter AMD reported its calendar Q2 2017, revenues and non-GAAP operating income were up as well as its graphics and compute groups revenue and profits. The company’s gross margin was 33%, up 2 percentage points y/y due to, the company says, a … Read more
AMD blew into LA on the fresh breeze of new products and they brought the tribe of press and analysts with them. At Los Angeles, AMD celebrated the arrival of the latest products from its new Ryzen and Vega architectures. With the announcement of new professional graphics boards based on Vega, the WX9100 updates the Hawaii XW9100 with the features … Read more
Just sit on The Bench Disney has The Bench, an AR experience for many, simultaneously, without the need for any head gear, developed by Disney Research Pittsburgh. The viewer(s) sit on a bench and look forward at a monitor or screen. It has a camera on/in it that looks at the you and the bench. Behind you is a flat … Read more
$2.2 billion in sales, $583 million profit up 15% Nvidia reported that their second quarter revenue increased 56 percent year over year and 15 percent sequentially to a record $2.23 billion. Growth, said the company, was driven by GPUs for gaming, datacenter, and professional visualization, as well as Tegra processors. The company’s GPU business revenue was $1.90 billion, up 59 … Read more
Ever new and ever magical This was my 38th Siggraph, and it was as exciting as the first one, well maybe not the first one, but pretty damn exciting nonetheless. Siggraph continues to attract imaginative and sometimes astonishing people and ideas, and has over the years maintained its fresh, “look at what I did” personality. That’s partially due to the … Read more
Cray to Deliver ARM-Powered Supercomputer How could the puniest processor other than Raspberry Pi Zero be used in a supercomputer? Cray thinks it’s happening. Cray started exploring the use of an ARM processor with Cavium in late 2014. And in June 2016, Fujitsu said it would build its Post-K supercomputer with ARM v8 chips. Then, at the at the Barcelona-based … Read more
