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Nvidia Slows the Pace, while AMD Promises More

AMD and Nvidia, despite how they poster and position themselves, have limited resources; and since there are only 25 hours in a day, they have to pick their priorities carefully. And even though there was ...

An AIB in a blink of the eye

From the beginning of second quarter of 2017 to the end of the first quarter of 2018, almost sixty-four million AIBs were shipped—63, 887,712 to be exact.  In one year, there are 31,536,000 seconds in ...

SPECviewperf 13 benchmark for measuring graphics performance

The SPEC Graphics Performance Characterization (SPECgpc) subcommittee recently released SPECviewperf 13, a major revision of its software for measuring the graphics performance of workstations running professional applications. SPECviewperf 13 includes new volume visualization viewsets for ...

Adobe’s Character Animator Comes to Life

It was just a few years ago, 2015 actually, that Adobe introduced its character animation tool to the world at NAB. At that time, it was part of Adobe’s After Effects and seemed a cute ...

Qualcomm’s always-connected Snapdragon 850

If you thought the Snapdragon 845 was good, and tens of millions of people did (do), then you’re going to be blown away by the Snapdragon 850. It delivers more stuff like pixels, and compute, ...

Matrox Squeezes Pixels from a 20-year Old Chip

This week Matrox, the eclectic pioneering Canadian graphics company who developed a 3D graphics controller in 1998 they called the G200, is celebrating its 20th anniversary. At the time it was a killer new part, ...

When Super gets Charged—Nvidia’s HGX-2

Nvidia just won’t quit and has built a double-decker server rack-mount console of Volta AIBs that can be used for AI training among things. The hardcore specifications are: AIBs: 16x Tesla V100s, providing 10,240 Tensor cores, ...

How do you pronounce XR1?

XR1 is a next-generation platform introduced by the Qualcomm Technologies, subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, at the AWE conference in Santa Clara, California, – last week. Qualcomm’s definition of XR XR1, says QCOM, offers mainstream users ...

Can an AI Be Creative?

Can an AI be creative? Using AI to learn the styles of artistic elements in dance, music, painting, and writing and then applying them to create a like example is not creative. It is imitative. ...

MSPR finally means something, part 2

The following is a collage of stories about AIBs that occurred in Q1’18. Not meant to be an exhaustive listing of every mention of an AIB, or product announcement, it will give you some view ...

What goes up when all else goes down?

Q1’18 GPU and PC shipments broke a lot of records. Q1 is traditionally a down quarter for PCs (see Figure 1). Q1’18 was down 14.1%, not a record, it went down 16.2% in Q1’16, but ...

No more VR sickness?

AI is here to save the day and your lunch  According to a report in Business Korea, LG Display and a team at Sogang University have jointly developed the world's first AI-based content creation technology ...