Is the VR party (finally) over?
Anyone who follows the mainstream technical press will have noticed the recent wave of stories and editorials about the decline in interest and sales of VR hardware. This is not surprising to me, and in ...
Intel and AMD talent swap
Almost as a sequel to my editorial about the Talent Wars, AMD announced Martin Ashton, the former Vice President of the Core and Visual Computing Group responsible for graphics architecture and IP development at Intel, ...
HP announces four more for the desktop and floor and calls it Gen four
HP has been expanding its workstation line using both professional 8th generation E2100 Xeon CPUs and 8th generation Core processors, equipped with either AMD Radeon Pro AIBs, Nvidia Quadro AIBs, or Intel HD graphics for ...
If you thought five was good, wait till you see six
Samsung is the first to announce the availability of JEDEC GDDR6 CMOS 8 Gb through 16 Gb x16 dual channel SGRAM (Synchronous Graphics Random Access Memory) memory devices for use in advanced graphics processing for ...
Baidu Kunlun 昆仑
A few days ago, Baidu joined the ranks of vertically integrated companies to produce Kunlun, their own machine learning accelerator. Announcing two versions of the Kunlun processor, while giving few details outside of their 260 ...
Development of the VPU
With the advent of AI, image recognition, and neural networks, there has been the emergence of a new category of processor, or functionality broadly known as a visual processing unit, or VPU. The name belies ...
No Magic acquisition
In June, Dassault announced the acquisition of No Magic, a company specializing in model-based systems engineering (MBSE). No Magic will become part of the Catia family of applications. No Magic’s tools are cloud based, and, ...
Is it Time to Rename the GPU?
I was reminiscing last week about the GPU and having a friendly debate with my pals at Nvidia about the origin of the acronym. They of course claim they invented it, the device and the ...
Pivooto claims compression denser than WebP
A clever Dutch game developer based in Eindhoven developed a new, very efficient compression engine, originally targeted for handheld games. He named the engine Pivooto and used the name for their company too. Hugo Smits, ...
Steamy results make seeing the truth difficult
If one looks at the distribution of AIBs, AMD has about 35% market share based on Q1’18 shipments. Not all those AIBs were used for gaming, but most of them were. Q1’18 market share desktop ...
Magic Leap Launches SDK
Magic Leap has launched its Lumin SDK, a plug-in for Unity and Uneal, after a long wait by developers wanting something/anything they can get to work on. It will allow developers to build AR experiences ...
Talent Wars
The revolving doors in Silicon Valley are nothing new, but within the last two or so years the migration at the superstar techno level has been particularly intense—especially in the GPU and CPU space. Some ...