Unreal Engine 4.24 is now shipping. This release is a significant expansion in Epic’s market reach. On the non-gaming side, big news is that Unreal Studio has been discontinued and all its components are freely available just like the Unreal Engine. Doesn't that simplify things? Unreal Studio, the company’s tools for content import are now part of the Unreal Engine … Read more
Intel’s new Xe-architecture-based discrete GPU will be deployed in Aurora supercomputer at the Argonne National Laboratory
Intel made a few significant and interesting announcements at the 2019 supercomputer conference (SC19) in Denver. The company officially launched its OneAPI, a unified and scalable programming model for heterogeneous computing architectures. Announced a general-purpose GPU-based on the X architecture, code-named “Ponte Vecchio.” claiming it is optimized for HPC/AI acceleration Revealed additional architectural details of the exascale Aurora Supercomputer at Argonne … Read more
Intel has tried several times to get into the stand-alone graphics chip market. Its first attempt in 1982 was the cross-licensing of the NEC 7220, which became the Intel 82720. Then in 1983, Intel made the iSBX 275 Multibus-based add-in graphics board (AIB) with the chip. Its second attempt was in 1988 when it released the 82786, which it billed as … Read more
Everybody dance now: the Intel machine seems back on track Intel released their third-quarter results (see TechWatch, Intel Q3 2019 results) and reported record results. In the analyst call, Intel’s CEO Bob Swan said the company is on target to return to a schedule of major manufacturing upgrades every 2 to 2.5 years. In addition, Swan said, “We are on … Read more
Revenue for the quarter was up 16.4% from last quarter to $19.2 billion, GAAP profit was $6 billion, up 43% from last quarter—7nm queued up
Intel beat Wall Street expectations on its third-quarter financial performance sending the company’s stock up 6.9% in morning trading Friday after the chipmaker reported late-Thursday afternoon. Intel reported its calendar Q3 2019, revenues were flat year-over-year and grew significantly quarter-to-quarter. The PC-centric business and data-centric revenue increased over 10% and 28%, respectively, over the last quarter. This was the best … Read more
Remember when it cost almost a half a million dollars for Flame?
Just for a reference point, you should know that the Hubble optical telescope is 11,4777 × 7,965 or 94.4-Mpixels Last week, Samsung introduced a new image sensor with the highest resolution for mobile phones; more than anything on the market—64-Mpixels. The ISOCELL Bright GW1 sensor uses the same 0.8-μm-sized pixels as Samsung’s current 48-Mpixel sensor, so the 64-Mpixel sensor … Read more
Intel reported its calendar Q2 2019; revenues were down year-over-year 3% but grew quarter-to-quarter. Intel achieved 1% growth in the PC-centric business while data-centric revenue declined 7%. “Second quarter results exceeded our expectations on both revenue and earnings, as the growth of data and compute-intensive applications are driving customer demand for higher performance products in both our PC-centric and data-centric … Read more
I have never been a fan of the term mixed-reality, and think it is misleading, confusing, and annoying. Microsoft started it by calling their Hololens AR HMD an MR HMD because they were trying to get some product differentiation and distance from AR and the damage Google had done to the term. Qualcomm tried to sidestep the politics and … Read more
The weather wasn’t the best, but they came to learn. Developers at Google I/O learned that security is the new cool. (Source: Google) It’s been clear for a long time that Google doesn’t see itself as the company that helps people find things. Not anymore, at Google I/O, Sundar Pichai told the audience that Google wants to be the … Read more
