Jensen Huang gives away 276 TFLOPS
If you were lucky enough to get to go to the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in Salt Lake City, and if you were one of the twenty lucky enough once there to get ...
Inventing the future: Alex Kipman reflects on Hololens at LiveWorx
PTC’s LiveWorx conference is all about the Internet of Things and AR. It has grown out of the PTC acquisition of ThingWorx and the subsequent remaking of the company to put it in the ...
Core Wars: AMD and Intel update an old battle
In the beginning, back in when the fabulous 286 was introduced in 1982, several companies sought to clone it, AMD being the most successful. That started the MHz wars, and we users and the happy ...
Huawei’s GPU Turbo
Huawei has announced its Honor Play smartphone will employ the company's new “GPU Turbo” technology. Huawei and Honor claim to have improved the graphics processing efficiency by 60 percent while reducing the SoC energy consumption ...
Velocity Micro debuts a monster dual-socket AMD EPYC 64-core workstation
For the first time in a decade, AMD’s CPU portfolio is positioned to not only serve one or two segments of the workstation market, but its entire breadth. Based on its Zen CPU architecture the ...
The Reality of AR and VR: Highlights from a New Survey
In March 2018, TECHnalysis Research conducted an online survey of 1,000 US consumers that identified themselves as gamers and who owned some type of augmented reality or virtual reality capable device. Ages of the respondents ...
I hate passwords—Holst may save the day
Researchers from the Holst Centre in Belgium, an open innovation initiative of IMEC and TNO in Netherlands, have demonstrated a new class of flexible, large-area sensor technology for detecting finger- and palmprints. It is less than ...
PTC announces powerful alliances at LiveWorx 2018
The PTC conference kicked off this year with a show of strength and confidence. The company announced three major alliances this year and they highlight three different areas of focus for the company. ...
Mali-V76 VPU from Arm.
Arm’s recent Premium Launch gave us an insight into upcoming products aimed at the higher end of the mobile and consumer device markets. In there with the new Cortex-A76 CPU and the Mali-G76 GPU (subscribers ...
The power of Twitter — a GPU it makes
In an unprovoked tweet, in the style of a certain golf playing president who now likes kimchi, senior vice president of the Core and Visual Computing Group, general manager of edge computing solutions and chief ...
Hey buddy, wanna buy a Penguin?
Penguin Computing (Freemont), led by CEO Tom Coull, has been around since 1998. Prior to Penguin, Tom was a serial entrepreneur, and also founded Sense 8, a leading VR company of the day. Penguin carved ...
Imagination joins the AI race with new products
This week, following on from its ‘soft launch’ of the PowerVR Series2NX inferencing accelerator architecture late last year, Imagination Technologies has delivered on its promise of real products during 2018 with two IP cores announced. ...