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HP establishes a new category—detachable workstations

Expanded line reaches semi-professionals, high-end designers, engineers, and content creators When HP announced the new ZBook x2 series back in October 2017 they were not just introducing a new workstation but a new category—the detachable workstation. The ...

Ray’s tracings

There’s ray tracing, and then there’s ray tracing Just like there are seventeenilon types of anti-aliasing, there are eighteenilon ways to do ray tracing. Some great ways, some really great ways, believe me, there are ...

Nvidia’s Xavier is the harbinger of the furture

Nvidia's big, bad Xavier is the first of a breed of processors that will power the modern world At GTC 2016, Nvidia previewed “Xavier,” an SoC that integrates a 512-core Volta GPU and an 8-core ...

Sony revives projection AR with Superception

Outward AR is an interesting approach Microsoft’s Beamatron was one of the fist AR projection systems in 2012 using a fixed location projector (video here). Valve spinoff, Cast AR, was the first in 2013 to ...

Arm and Nvidia spot a squirrel

Breathless reporting makes news of Nvidia's and Arm's collaboration on Xavier sound like earth shattering news.  Nvidia and Arm recently announced that they would be working together to make Nvidia’s Deep learning Accelerator (NVDLA) accessible to ...

New boss at Imagination Technologies

Sends a strong message about the company’s future. Imagination Technologies announced this week that Dr. Leo Li will be the company’s Chief Executive Officer. That is very good news for Imagination, its suppliers, shareholders, employees, ...

GTC ’18: Pursuing and Exploiting the Intersection of Computer Graphics and AI

Nvidia’s GPU journey runs full circle to embrace the synergy of graphics and AI In a way, Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference of 2018 marked the culmination of the company’s past-decade journey, one in which it ...

Have a MacBook and want more (GPU) power?

Hang an external AIB box on it. But not just any box, and not just any AIB. Apple recently announced that it is offering support for certain external chassis equipped with certain AMD AIBs. Such ...

GTC: Nvidia’s evolution takes it into new territory with new customers and competitors

It’s ten years since Nvidia launched the GPU Technology Conference (albeit under a different name) to promote the use of their technology. This year, they are claiming an attendance of more than 8000 delegates along ...

Nvidia GTC: Gaming Perspective

Gaming is still the major cash cow for the company and they haven’t forgotten that By design, the Nvidia GTC had very little gaming content but they did display a few products and technologies worthy ...

Oculus has something for everyone

From a low-cost Samsung Gear VR HMD to a super high-performance Rift, Oculus has the VR landscape pretty much covered. Hugo Barra, VP of VR at Oculus shows the company’s existing and future product lineup ...

AMD vs Nvidia hash test

Easter morning and things were quiet, so for fun I ran a couple of tests. One machine, an Alienware Aurora with 4 GHz i7-6700K with 16 GB DDR3, and an 8 GB Radeon Vega RX ...