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After chasing pixels all this time Jon catches some

With 21 quadrillion available, surely, I can have a couple. If it storms in Colorado I see it in Tiburon. Half way between HP’s workstation campus in Fort Collins, CO, and Rocky mountain high Denver ...

Being smart about smart glasses

We’re going to have them. Back in 2016 I bet several people we’d have consumer-class smart glasses and that 20% of the population would be using them by 2020. I got scared around mid-2017, but ...

Nvidia’s Q4 FY18 results

$2.91 billion in sales, $1.1 billion profit up 33% from last quarter. Nvidia reported record revenue for the fourth quarter ended February 8, 2017, of $2.91 billion, up 34% from $2.17 billion a year earlier, ...

A supercomputer without GPUs?

Are the Chinese crazy? The Chinese grabbed headlines in 2010 with the announcement of their home built Tianhe-1 supercomputer, that delivered 1.2 PFLOPS, aided by AMD GPUs. The Tianhe-1A, a companion system at the National ...

Epic Games acquires Cloudgine

Cloudgine technology will give developers working in Unreal the ability to offload compute jobs to cloud processing.   Epic is adding on to its arsenal of capabilities with a middleware provider, Cloudgine. The company has acquired ...

How low can you go? TSMC goes for 5nm

TSMC first chipmaker to move to 5 nanometer process Legendary Morris Chang says TSMC will be the first with 5nm volume production. Chang is one of those guys says what he means and means what ...

What the hell is a Focal Surface Display?

Ask Oculus, they’ve invented one Oculus has announced what they call groundbreaking technology, Focal Surface Display. The new technology is designed to improve the vergence-accommodation conflict that impacts today’s VR headsets.  Oculus has built a ...

Intel Q4 2017 results

$17.1 billion in sales, $690 million loss, sales and profits up from last quarter. Intel reported its calendar Q4 2017, revenues were up, but profits down due to a huge tax expense. All of its ...

AMD Q4 2017 results

$1.5 billion in sales, $71 million GAAP profit for the quarter, sales and profit down from last quarter. AMD reported its calendar Q4 2017; revenues and operating income were up as well as its graphics ...

From the small to the large

Nanometer processors used for petawhopper computers to keep your lights on Last week, Italian energy company Eni’s took the lead in supercomputers with the launch of its latest petawhopper, the HPC4. At 18.6 petaflops (peak) ...

3D Augmented reality on the web, for everyone

Google is here to save the day Google wants to popularize 3D on the web and on Android devices. The company is building a strong base in VR with Daydream and also the development of ...

Intel big and small

Intel did not get a great jump out of the gate for 2018 and CES. Yes the company threw a grand, showy event as its part of the CES opening keynotes, but it’s been haunted ...