HP at CES
The PC business is pretty standardized these days. People know they want a computer, a display, a mouse, a tablet. Many of those people know they’d rather have a major brand for the reassurance of ...
The PC OEMs at CES, the early look
CES is all about show, whether it's the biggest TV ever or the most pixels one can cram into a computer display. So, not surprisingly, on the PC side, monitors are big, bezels are small, ...
VR on the rise at CES
There are people who are wandering the halls at CES so we don’t have to. Among them are the people from VRScout who posted an early heads up on Panasonic’s new VR glasses. The pitch ...
Dell Alienware entering the console market?
Dell spends billions of dollars on R&D—BILLIONS. R&D expenses were $4.4 billion for Fiscal 2018 and $2.6 billion for Fiscal 2017. With a budget like that, some interesting things can be done, and Dell ...
Intel announces discrete GPU DG1 at CES
Intel seldom disappoints at CES, and this year they clearly had more to tell than the time allotted to do it. From autonomous cars, supercomputers to micro IoT thingies. Vice President Gregory Bryant showed the ...
Famous graphics chips: HP’s Artist Graphics
In 1993, facing heavy competition from Sun, HP set the design goal for its new 32-bit HP 9000/712 workstation to reach performance levels of 1992-era workstations and servers at a fraction of their fabrication ...
Intel really respects AMD technology
Image by mgallon from Pixabay When Intel was struggling with Itanium, it shifted to the x86 64-bit approach AMD developed. When Intl realized parallel buses weren’t going to scale much further, it copied AMD’s ...
Don’t lose it…
I’ve long had a bit of an anti-Apple grudge. There’s not a good reason for it, other than perhaps I worked at Dell for several years, and developed a bit of an attitude there… Despite ...
Nvidia almost announces Orin
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the company’s GPU technology conference in China. (Source: Nvidia) Nvidia has been holding GTC conferences around the U.S. and the world and recently held one in China. At the ...
Maxon is adding on technology and talent with the acquisition of Red Giant
Right in the middle of wrapping presents, agonizing over what to feed people, and wishing work would just shut up for a minute, Maxon and Red Giant announced plans to “combine forces,” in a deal ...
Varjo demos the best virtual reality we’ve seen
I have reported several times on Finnish XR start-up Varjo since I first recognized the potential of their concept of “foveated resolution.” I reported most recently a few weeks ago from AWE Europe in Munich. ...
AMD joins Blockchain Gaming Alliance and teams with distribution companies
Remember when anyone who had a tech company had a blockchain strategy? It’s happening again, Batman. AMD has announced that it’s joining the Blockchain Game Alliance (BGA). The company says it is partnering with Robot Cache ...