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ASRock to enter AIB market

Success with cryptocurrency-mining mother boards leads company to next step According to a report in Digitimes, motherboard supplier ASRock reportedly will enter the AIB market in April and focus mainly on supplying AMD-based products. The ...

AMD’s New Ryzen 5 2400G, smaller, faster, cheaper

Beats the competition in 11 out of 12 tests We ran a series of tests on a new AMD 4-core, 3.6 GHz, Ryzen 5 2400G (in a custom built Cooler Master PC) and a HP ...

Color calibration in TV displays

Samsung and Portrait displays team up for HDR calibration in your home Portrait Displays announced its expanded partnership with Samsung Electronics for color calibration in TV displays through its CalMAN software. The auto calibration tool ...

Khronos’ Vulkan 1.1 API has added functionality

More of a computing device than a graphics processor now? Khronos has just released version 1.1 of its high-performance GPU API, Vulkan. The heir apparent to OpenGL, and OpenGL ES, this thin and light API ...

Samsung’s coolest TV

Samsung's 2018 QLED TVs blend into the background when idle Since the TV is often the focal point of the living room, when it's off that blank black rectangle wastes a lot of space. To ...

MSPR finally means something

No longer a cheap discount disguise I’ve heard and used the term, MSPR (Manufacturer’s suggested retail price) for at least three decades that I can recall. In the past it has meant a discount was ...

Qualcomm Shows Scalability

Introduces 700 platform, a subset of 800 platform for IoT automotive and embedded Qualcomm’s new 700 series is targeted at OEMs and the company claims it offers premium features, such as on-device artificial intelligence, in ...

Inflated AIB prices will increase branded PC sales.

PC shipment models are out of synch  What will the run up in AIB prices do to PC pricing? Probably not very much immediately, as the OEMs negotiate their deals six months ahead of shipping ...

ST Microelectronics Orlando Inferencing Engine.

The CNN accelerator field continues to get more crowded. ST Micro quietly previewed their Orlando high-efficiency inferencing accelerator at CES and have now gone public with an announcement at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona. ...

Arm’s project Trillium

Too little too late, or the foreshadowing of history? Arm took advantage of the post-CES news lull to announce, “Project Trillium,” a suite of software tools for neural network inferencing at the edge, along with ...

The Second Coming of Onshape

This January, Onshape CEO and co-Found Jon Hirschtick did the rounds of press and analyst sites with jovial interviews and updates about the progress of OnShape. His message is that Onshape is ready for primetime.  ...

Neri Oxman finds art in biology and decay

Explorations in sustainability, material science, and fabricating The work of Israeli-American designer and architect Neri Oxman lives at the place where art, engineering, and nature come together. It’s a that’s just being explored as older ...