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Jingjia Microelectronics introduces new GPU

  A Chinese company, Changsha Jingjia Microelectronics Co. (Jingjia Micro), is claiming their upcoming GPU that is being fabricated at 28-nm will be capable of reaching Nvidia’s GTX 1080 performance levels.  Founded in 2006 in ...

Intel’s new Lake processors span all segments

  Intel has launched its 10th Core processors (U- and Y-series) for thin-and-light designs claiming they offer scaling for demanding, multithreaded workloads, including the flagship built-for-business Intel vPro platform The 10thGen Intel Core mobile processors ...

Huawei’s Da Vinci AI accelerator explained at Hot Chips

  Announced at Hot Chips last year and again at the Shanghai Full link Conference, the Da Vinci AI accelerator has been making the rounds. Huawei provided more details at Hot Chips this year. The ...

Famous Graphics Chips: Microsoft’s Talisman — the most influential chip that never was

In 1996 as the 3D graphics chip market was in its ascendency, with new companies declaring devices every month, Microsoft shocked the industry by introducing a radically different approach — tiling. The conventional architecture for ...

Intel flexes its AI muscles at Hot Chips

  At Hot Chips 2019, Intel revealed new details of its upcoming AI accelerators: Nervana neural network processors, with the NNP-T for training and the NNP-I for inference. Intel engineers also presented technical information on ...

AMD at Hot Chips: building for the data center

  As gains slowdown from process improvements and die size, power gains require improvements to all aspects of the system. The best way to push semiconductor gains forward says Lisa Su, is to improve all ...

Cerebras reveals world’s ‘largest computer chip’ for AI tasks

At Hot Chips, Californian-based Cerebras Systems showed the world's most massive computer chip, the Wafer Scale Engine, that is slightly bigger than a standard iPad. The firm says a single chip can drive complex AI ...

Nothing says ray tracing like reflections

At the Gamescon conference in Cologne Germany Nvidia amazed the crowds with almost a dozen new games that have used ray tracing to enhance their story and overall appearance.  One of the tricks to show ...

If you don’t believe realtime ray tracing is real—see Chaos

  Chaos has been a leader in ray tracing since they started the company 21 years ago in Sofia, Bulgaria. Their program, V-Ray, has been used in innumerable designs and a dozen movies. Seeing the Chaos ...

AMD says, to see sub-atomic reactions, go to Rome

AMD went to San Francisco last week to unveil its 7nm 64-core Rome processor. Claiming to be most secure, fastest, and most powerful single-chip processor available now, the top of the line model (the Epyc ...

Nvidia’s Q2 FY20 results

 Nvidia reported revenue from all platforms up for the quarter.  The company’s GPU business revenue was $2.1 billion, up 4% from last quarter, but down 21% from last year.   “We achieved sequential growth across our ...

Samsung’s 108-Mpixel camera sensor—a telescope in your pocket

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; ...